Garden · Tennessee
Dixon Gardens
Dixon Gardens is a garden in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 94 m. The nearest named place is Memphis Botanic Garden, a garden 0.4 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 163 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Permitted
How to reach it
Coordinates35.10639, -89.91786
- 162.6 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 14.1 mi off the Mississippi Delta Great River Road
- 7.8 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 45.4 mi off the Crowley's Ridge Parkway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Beale Street Landing · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Cancer Survivor Park: 0.7 mi
- Pep Marquette Park: 1.2 mi
- Goodwin Park: 1.6 mi
- Sunshine Park: 1.8 mi
- Sea Isle Park: 1.8 mi
Attractions
- Memphis Pink Palace Museum: 2.7 mi
- Tiger Lane: 3.6 mi
- Liberty Park: 3.8 mi
- Bell: 4.2 mi
- Man & Guitar Statue: 4.2 mi
Historic sites
- Spanish War Memorial: 4.0 mi
- L.B. McFarland Memorial Campanile: 5.0 mi
- Sophie G. Freidman Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Lilian May Elizabeth Nelson Byrd Memorial (DAR): 5.0 mi
- Ted Rust: 5.1 mi
Museums: 29
- Museum of Science and History, Pink Palace: 2.7 mi
- Memphis Children's Museum: 3.6 mi
- Brooks Museum of Art: 5.1 mi
- Stax Museum: 6.4 mi
- Stax Museum: 6.4 mi
Beaches: 21
- West Junction shore: 9.9 mi
- West Snake Beach: 9.9 mi
- West Potato Beach: 10.1 mi
- West Houston shore beach: 10.2 mi
- East Houston shore beach: 10.7 mi
Artworks: 13
- Ramesses the Great Statue: 1.6 mi
- Crystal Shrine Grotto: 2.5 mi
- sundial: 3.7 mi
- The Ring of Peace: 3.7 mi
- E. H. Crump Statue: 5.1 mi
Nature reserves: 7
- Audubon Park: 0.5 mi
- Lichterman Nature Center: 3.3 mi
- Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters: 6.4 mi
- Germantown Greenway: 7.7 mi
- Robbins-Halle Nature Preserve: 11.2 mi
Gardens: 6
- Memphis Botanic Garden: 0.4 mi
- Emeriti Grove: 1.5 mi
- Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 5.2 mi
- Fisher Memorial Garden: 5.2 mi
- Meditation Garden: 7.3 mi
Cliffs: 2
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Four: 8.3 mi
- Chickasaw Bluff Number Three: 16.8 mi
Rest areas: 1
- Tennessee Welcome Center: 6.6 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Hopefield: 9.5 mi
Picnic sites: 1
- Memphis Propbuster's Field: 16.1 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:38 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:40 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:25 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:13 | 16:52 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 46 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 76 | 65 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 4.1 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Memphis Intl AP, 5 mi away.
- Gulf Fritillary43 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle34 obs
- American Robin33 obs
- Monarch32 obs
- Eastern Carpenter Bee29 obs
- Pipevine Swallowtail26 obs
- Canada Goose25 obs
- Black Swallowtail25 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/470298599
Day trips start here
- Bartlett · 7 mi
- Memphis · 8 mi
- Southaven · 10 mi
- Olive Branch · 11 mi
- West Memphis · 15 mi
- Marion · 17 mi
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