Carson City Community Garden
Carson City Community Garden is a garden in Nevada, at a modelled elevation of 1,431 m. Mount Rose stands 3,285 m to the northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Mills Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive passes 8.9 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- permit
How to reach it
- 8.9 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 9.9 mi off the Fort Churchill to Wellington Back Country Byway
- 11.0 mi off the Mount Rose Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 10 mi
- Scenic lookout · 11 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 13 mi
- Cave Rock · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mills Park: 0.4 mi
- Fulstone Family Park: 0.6 mi
- Blackwell's Pond Park: 0.6 mi
- Steinheimer Park: 0.6 mi
- Treadway Park: 0.8 mi
- C Hill: 2.3 mi
- Indian Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Sugarloaf: 2.8 mi
- Centennial Peak: 2.9 mi
- Duck Hill: 3.6 mi
- Pelican Sculpture: 17.3 mi
- Frog Sculpture: 17.4 mi
- St Theresa: 20.2 mi
- The Big Tree: 20.6 mi
- The Holland Project: 23.2 mi
- Old US Mint: 0.8 mi
- Nevada State Railroad Museum: 2.0 mi
- Eastgate Depot: 4.5 mi
- Dayton Museum: 9.8 mi
- Dayton Museum: 9.8 mi
- Carson Raceway: 1.5 mi
- Thunderbird Lodge: 9.4 mi
- Palmyra Town Site: 13.8 mi
- Palmyra Mining Camp: 13.8 mi
- Customs: 15.4 mi
- Scripps State Wildlife Management Area: 8.4 mi
- Galena Creek Regional Park: 13.4 mi
- River Fork Ranch Preserve: 13.7 mi
- Galena Terrace: 14.4 mi
- Placer County Open Space: 18.0 mi
- South Beach: 4.1 mi
- Secret Beach: 9.2 mi
- Sand Harbor Beach: 9.4 mi
- Sand Harbor: 9.5 mi
- Secret Cove Beach: 9.6 mi
- Nevada Vietnam Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Nevada State Constitution Monument: 1.0 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Ophir Mill Historical Marker: 9.1 mi
- Virginia City's Oldest Church: 10.8 mi
- Taylor Spring: 3.3 mi
- Saratoga Hot Spring: 8.2 mi
- Bull Run Spring: 9.2 mi
- Erastra Spring: 11.1 mi
- Lebo Spring: 13.0 mi
- Lower King's Canyon Waterfall: 3.6 mi
- Jumbo Falls: 11.2 mi
- Genoa Falls: 13.3 mi
- Eagle Falls: 24.5 mi
- Lower Eagle Falls: 24.5 mi
- Slab Cliffs: 13.7 mi
- Susans Bluff: 20.5 mi
- Twin Crags: 21.9 mi
- Tallac Point: 22.8 mi
- Thunder Cliff: 23.0 mi
- Washoe City: 10.1 mi
- Sutro: 11.7 mi
- Galena: 12.2 mi
- Como: 15.0 mi
- Stone Cabin: 16.5 mi
- Norton Park: 15.4 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 22.3 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 22.5 mi
- The Rose Garden: 24.3 mi
- Sensory Garden: 24.3 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 21.8 mi
- Eagle Falls Picnic Area: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.9 miles of Carson City Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Rose | NW 323° | 3,285 m | 14.5 mi |
| Mount Houghton | NW 318° | 3,195 m | 14.7 mi |
| Relay Peak | NW 313° | 3,135 m | 14.0 mi |
| Tamarack Peak | NW 318° | 3,012 m | 13.2 mi |
| Slide Mountain | NW 324° | 2,936 m | 11.7 mi |
| Rose Knob Peak | NW 307° | 2,932 m | 13.5 mi |
| Rose Knob | WNW 303° | 2,922 m | 14.4 mi |
| Rifle Peak | WNW 302° | 2,892 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:36 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:49 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:22 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:58 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 38 | 44 | 49 | 57 | 65 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 34 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carson City, 4 mi away.
- Mule Deer28 obs
- California Scrub-Jay22 obs
- Northern Shoveler20 obs
- Cooper's Hawk20 obs
- Carson Valley Monkeyflower17 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow16 obs
- Gadwall16 obs
- American Coot15 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/960939772
Day trips start here
- Virginia City · 11 mi
- Incline Village · 13 mi
- Republic of Molossia · 15 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 16 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 16 mi
- Tahoe City · 20 mi
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