Dornbush Rain Garden
Dornbush Rain Garden is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 298 m. Pollocks Knob stands 407 m to the south-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is A Second Chance Community Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Grand View Scenic Byway passes 6.5 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- UpstreamPgh
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 6.5 mi off the Grand View Scenic Byway
- 26.2 mi off the Historic National Road - Pennsylvania, National
Named places within 25 miles
- East Hills Park: 0.5 mi
- Ross Street Park: 0.8 mi
- Chadwick Park: 1.0 mi
- Graham Field: 1.0 mi
- Westinghouse Park: 1.2 mi
- Freedom and Liberation Wall: 1.0 mi
- Breath: 2.1 mi
- T-Rex Statue: 2.8 mi
- Captured::Pittsburgh Open Air Photography Gallery: 2.9 mi
- Griffins: 2.9 mi
- Cowboy Hill: 1.3 mi
- Clayton Hill: 1.7 mi
- Riverview Hill: 2.2 mi
- Mt. Sycamore: 2.9 mi
- Prospect Hill: 3.5 mi
- Churchill Valley Greenway: 1.9 mi
- Sycamore Island: 2.8 mi
- Briarcliff Park: 4.3 mi
- Cottonwood-Sunnyfield Park: 4.6 mi
- Oakcliffe Greenway: 4.6 mi
- Pillars In Squirrel Hill: 2.0 mi
- Pillars In Squirrel Hill: 2.0 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Negley Memorial: 2.8 mi
- Blawknox Veterans Memorial: 2.8 mi
- A Second Chance Community Garden: 0.1 mi
- The Frick Greenhouse: 1.2 mi
- Walled Garden: 2.1 mi
- Highland Park Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Swissvale Community Pollinator Garden: 2.2 mi
- Clayton Mansion: 1.2 mi
- The Frick Pittsburgh: 1.3 mi
- Car & Carraige Museum: 1.3 mi
- Frick Art and Historical Center: 1.3 mi
- Pittsburgh Center for the Arts: 2.2 mi
- Picnic Place at the Schenley Plaza: 3.9 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 5.1 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 5.2 mi
- Picnic Area: 9.6 mi
- Upper Orchard: 9.7 mi
- Pittsburgh Yarn Company: 1.0 mi
- Westinghouse Atom Smasher: 3.6 mi
- Heinz Memorial Chapel: 3.9 mi
- Stephen Foster Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Cathedral of Learning: 4.0 mi
- Thornburg Beach: 10.5 mi
- Tiger Beach: 11.0 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 17.5 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 17.5 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Right Side: 17.6 mi
- Thompson Run Falls: 5.5 mi
- Snake Run: 24.4 mi
- Hay's Wall: 5.6 mi
- Fossils Cliff: 14.7 mi
- Francis Spring: 9.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.0 miles of Dornbush Rain Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollocks Knob | SSW 195° | 407 m | 14.5 mi |
| Herron Hill | W 270° | 384 m | 4.2 mi |
| Rich Hill | NNE 13° | 365 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mt. Sycamore | NNE 26° | 229.2 m | 2.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:56 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:13 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 16:13 | 16:57 |
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 | 30 | 31 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Braddock Lock 2, 5 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer189 obs
- American cancer-root159 obs
- American Robin107 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk104 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly104 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel103 obs
- Japanese snowball102 obs
- Dryad's Saddle99 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.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1430377961
Day trips start here
- Green Tree · 9 mi
- Ross Township · 9 mi
- Mt. Lebanon · 11 mi
- Irwin · 13 mi
- Robinson Township · 13 mi
- Franklin Park · 14 mi
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