Dorris Carlson Reading Garden
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Dorris Carlson Reading Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 162 m. Oak Mountain stands 358 m to the south-southeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Cornerstone Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 2.9 miles off.
How to reach it
- 2.9 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
Overlooks nearby
- Owen's Point · 6 mi
- Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Cornerstone Park: 0.0 mi
- South Avenue Garage Pocket Park: 0.0 mi
- Washington Square Park: 0.1 mi
- Midtown Commons: 0.2 mi
- Midtown Parcel 5: 0.2 mi
- Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County: 0.0 mi
- Rundel Memorial Library: 0.1 mi
- Broad Street Bridge: 0.1 mi
- Main Street Bridge: 0.2 mi
- Times Square Building: 0.3 mi
- Signature Gateway: 0.1 mi
- Mill Wheel: 0.1 mi
- River Currents: 0.1 mi
- Water Table: 0.1 mi
- I ❤️ ROC: 0.2 mi
- Civil War monument: 0.1 mi
- Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial: 0.1 mi
- Rochester Veterans Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Liberty Pole: 0.2 mi
- Monument to the Founders of Spiritualism: 0.4 mi
- Pinnacle Hill: 1.7 mi
- Cobbs Hill: 2.0 mi
- Methodist Hill: 6.7 mi
- Craig Hill: 6.8 mi
- Paddy Hill: 7.3 mi
- Rochester Auto Museum: 0.2 mi
- Rochester Contemporary Art Center: 0.3 mi
- National Museum of Play at The Strong: 0.3 mi
- High Falls Museum: 0.7 mi
- Memorial Art Gallery: 1.0 mi
- 490 Farms: 1.0 mi
- Garden of Fragrance: 1.0 mi
- Good Luck Garden: 1.2 mi
- Swillburg Comm. Garden: 1.3 mi
- Swillburg Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Upper Falls: 0.2 mi
- High Falls: 0.6 mi
- Middle Falls: 1.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 2.0 mi
- Norton’s Falls: 2.6 mi
- Windsor Beach: 6.9 mi
- Ontario Beach: 7.4 mi
- Hamlin Beach: 22.9 mi
- Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse: 6.8 mi
- Keeper's House: 6.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Dorris Carlson Reading Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Mountain | SSE 154° | 358 m | 20.6 mi |
| Jakman Hill | S 185° | 357 m | 21.8 mi |
| Baptist Hill | SSE 157° | 356 m | 23.4 mi |
| Hopper Hills | SSE 157° | 335 m | 15.8 mi |
| Allens Hill | SSE 169° | 317 m | 22.4 mi |
| Woodchuck Hill | SSE 168° | 297 m | 19.0 mi |
| Taft Hill | SSE 165° | 287 m | 19.8 mi |
| Baker Hill | SE 132° | 282 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:45 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:11 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 15:52 | 16:39 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 59 | 68 | 72 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rochester GTR Intl, 4 mi away.
- American Robin128 obs
- Lawn daisy105 obs
- House Sparrow92 obs
- Canada Goose89 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel88 obs
- Mallard84 obs
- Rock Pigeon81 obs
- Eastern Cottontail79 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/555038951
Day trips start here
- Farmington · 19 mi
- Palmyra · 20 mi
- Williamson · 22 mi
- Canandaigua · 25 mi
- Newark · 27 mi
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