Druffel Gardens
Druffel Gardens is a garden in Ohio, at a modelled elevation of 248 m. Rumpke Mountain stands 319 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Green Man Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Ohio River Scenic Byway passes 0.8 miles off. 32 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Access
- Customers only
How to reach it
- 0.8 mi off the Ohio River Scenic Byway, National
- 1.6 mi off the Riverboat Row Scenic Byway
- 13.6 mi off the Presidential Pathways Ohio Scenic Byway
- 17.4 mi off the Big Bone Lick Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Bird Watching Shelter · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Green Man Park: 0.2 mi
- Five Points: 0.3 mi
- Nassau/St James Playground: 0.4 mi
- Burnet Recreation Area: 0.5 mi
- Fechheimer Park: 0.5 mi
- Peebles Corner: 0.4 mi
- Lane Theological Seminary: 0.5 mi
- Votes for Women: 0.6 mi
- Manse Hotel and Annex: 0.6 mi
- Cincinnati Federation Clubhouse: 0.7 mi
- Wilson-Gibson House: 0.4 mi
- Mirror Lake: 0.8 mi
- Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati: 1.3 mi
- Giraffe Ridge: 1.4 mi
- Cheetah Encounter: 1.4 mi
- Skybound: 0.7 mi
- Dare to be a beacon of light: 0.7 mi
- Capitoline Wolf Replica: 0.7 mi
- Pinocchio: 0.7 mi
- Cincinnati Porkitecture: 0.7 mi
- Medicinal Herb Garden: 1.0 mi
- Kay’s Garden: 1.0 mi
- Over-The-Rhine People’s Garden: 1.3 mi
- Pleasant Street North Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- The People's Garden on Boyd St.: 3.2 mi
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House: 0.7 mi
- Taft House: 0.8 mi
- Over-the-Rhine Museum: 1.3 mi
- Greater Cincinnati Police Museum: 1.3 mi
- Trailside Nature Center: 1.5 mi
- Scarborough Woods: 1.5 mi
- Bettman Preserve: 2.1 mi
- Rawson Woods: 2.4 mi
- Edgewood Grove: 2.6 mi
- Theresa Street Reserve: 3.6 mi
- Goat Hill: 0.7 mi
- Mount Adams: 1.2 mi
- Brighton Hill: 1.3 mi
- Bald Knob: 2.8 mi
- Mount Storm: 2.8 mi
- Lower Picnic Area: 3.8 mi
- Area 23: 4.5 mi
- Area 22, Furnas Hill: 4.7 mi
- Area 19, Stone Steps: 4.7 mi
- Area 11: 4.8 mi
- Lower Buckeye Falls: 11.8 mi
- Buckeye Falls: 11.9 mi
- Butterworth: 17.8 mi
- Simpkinsville: 18.7 mi
- Hidden Valley Lake Beach: 18.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Druffel Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rumpke Mountain | NNW 333° | 319 m | 11.8 mi |
| New Trenton Hill | WNW 302° | 287 m | 24.7 mi |
| Harrison Hill | WNW 293° | 284 m | 20.9 mi |
| Harrison Hill | WNW 295° | 279 m | 20.8 mi |
| Heitsmanns Hill | NNW 341° | 274 m | 20.5 mi |
| Snow Hill | NW 306° | 274 m | 24.3 mi |
| Whites Hill | WNW 294° | 273 m | 23.0 mi |
| Orchard Hill | SSW 199° | 268 m | 6.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:15 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:28 | 21:08 |
| September equinox | 07:26 | 19:02 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 07:54 | 16:37 | 17:19 |
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 | 32 | 35 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cincinnati Muni AP Lunken FLD, 5 mi away.
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee1,383 obs
- Eastern Carpenter Bee817 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee713 obs
- Western Honey Bee597 obs
- Common Wall Lizard369 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly296 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel259 obs
- Silver-spotted Skipper243 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/1476033700
Day trips start here
- Cincinnati/Over-the-Rhine · 1 mi
- Cincinnati · 2 mi
- Cincinnati/Clifton and Northside · 2 mi
- Cincinnati/Downtown · 2 mi
- Cincinnati/Eastern · 3 mi
- Newport · 3 mi
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