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Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden from directly overhead

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden is a garden in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 194 m. Kings Pinnacle stands 520 m to the west, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Hillside Park, a park 1.9 miles away. Crowders Mountain Drive passes 13 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.16702, -81.05861

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Thánh Giuse: 5.9 mi
  • Flash: 6.4 mi
  • Levitation: 6.5 mi
  • Canopy: 7.1 mi
  • Sculpture of Queen Charlotte: 7.5 mi
Attractions
Museums: 35
Nature reserves: 30
Gardens: 27
Peaks: 17
Beaches: 5
  • South Point Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Sailing Beach: 4.2 mi
  • Ramsay Creek Park Beach: 22.3 mi
  • SHOAL: 23.1 mi
  • SHOAL: 24.1 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Long Creek Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Little Long Creek Falls: 14.7 mi
  • High Shoals: 17.8 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • North Carolina Welcome Center: 8.6 mi
  • South Carolina Welcome Center: 8.9 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Carowinds Grove: 8.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Kings PinnacleW 281°520 m14.6 mi
Crowders MountainWNW 290°458 m13.1 mi
Spencer MountainNNW 340°375 m9.5 mi
Henry KnobWSW 259°344 m12.4 mi
Jackson KnobWNW 293°328 m6.9 mi
Reese MountainN 350°325 m18.3 mi
Browns MountainW 263°315 m19.7 mi
Joes MountainW 264°312 m19.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2919:0319:36
June solstice06:1120:0520:43
September equinox07:1318:4919:23
December solstice07:3016:3717:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434754627077817973635246
Precip in3.33.33.93.93.54.23.53.93.73.33.33.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gastonia Muni AP, 6 mi away.

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail35 obs
  • Green Anole30 obs
  • Great Blue Heron23 obs
  • mayapple23 obs
  • Monarch22 obs
  • Green Treefrog18 obs
  • Central Ratsnake14 obs
  • Fiery Skipper13 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/844059213

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