Children's Botanical Garden of South Central Kentucky
Children's Botanical Garden of South Central Kentucky is a garden in Kentucky, at a modelled elevation of 293 m. Big Knob stands 433 m to the northeast, 5.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Rocky Hollow Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway passes 6.1 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Pulaski Country Public Library
- Access
- Permitted
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 6.1 mi off the Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway
- 23.2 mi off the Wilderness Road Heritage Highway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Reservoir Knob: 1.1 mi
- Hale Knob: 1.6 mi
- Smith Knob: 2.2 mi
- Shop Knob: 2.4 mi
- Bogle Knob: 2.5 mi
- Rocky Hollow Park: 0.1 mi
- Fountain Square: 0.2 mi
- Bourne Park: 0.3 mi
- Rosewood Neighborhood Park: 0.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
- Meadow Creek Falls: 14.3 mi
- Bear Creek Falls: 15.2 mi
- Pole Bridge Branch Falls: 15.9 mi
- Lick Branch Falls: 16.6 mi
- Dutch Branch Falls: 16.9 mi
- Nathan McClure Arch 2: 16.1 mi
- Nathan McClure Arch: 16.2 mi
- Chimney Arch: 17.5 mi
- Natural Arch: 17.6 mi
- Charlottes Web Arch: 19.4 mi
- Shinbone Cliff: 17.0 mi
- Hens Nest Cliff: 18.6 mi
- Silvermine Cliff: 18.9 mi
- Tabletop Cliff: 18.9 mi
- Washing Cliff: 19.1 mi
- Town Spring: 0.1 mi
- P.O.W. M.I.A. Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Burnside: 6.8 mi
- First Boy Scout Troop: 6.9 mi
- Confederate Mass Grave Monument: 7.8 mi
- Downtown Somerset Welcome: 0.4 mi
- Tank: 0.4 mi
- Short Creek Cave: 10.4 mi
- Short Creek: 10.4 mi
- Beast Mode: 19.5 mi
- Senator John Sherman Cooper: 0.2 mi
- Lake Cumberland Slaves Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Buck Creek Wildlife Management Area: 10.5 mi
- Ping-Sinking Valley Wildlife Management Area: 14.1 mi
- Mill Spring: 14.4 mi
- Bald Rock Picnic Area: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.2 miles of Children's Botanical Garden of South Central Kentucky. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Knob | NE 47° | 433 m | 5.2 mi |
| Sugar Hill Knob | NE 43° | 428 m | 4.0 mi |
| Buzzard Rock Knob | NE 51° | 428 m | 7.1 mi |
| Buzzard Knob | NNE 28° | 427 m | 5.1 mi |
| Meace Knob | NNE 30° | 414 m | 3.7 mi |
| Cox Knob | NNE 33° | 413 m | 4.9 mi |
| Holtzclaw Knob | N 349° | 410 m | 5.0 mi |
| Potato Hill | ENE 68° | 409 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:16 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:24 | 21:02 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:03 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:49 | 16:45 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 41 | 49 | 59 | 67 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 4.3 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Somerset 2 N, 2 mi away.
- Wood Duck6 obs
- common star-of-Bethlehem6 obs
- Headwater Darter6 obs
- fortune's spindle6 obs
- Amur honeysuckle5 obs
- Yellow-rumped Warbler5 obs
- Turkey Vulture4 obs
- Great Blue Heron4 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/720751942
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