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Edisto Memorial Gardens

Edisto Memorial Gardens from directly overhead

Edisto Memorial Gardens is a garden in South Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 47 m. Haigs Hill stands 97 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Sensory Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. 40 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

What to expect

Access
Yes

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates33.48563, -80.87286

40 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 19
Peaks: 7
  • Quartemans Hill: 19.7 mi
  • Red Hill: 20.5 mi
  • Big Lake Cattle Mount: 21.1 mi
  • Old Dead River Cattle Mount: 21.1 mi
  • Bradys Cattle Mount: 21.2 mi
Gardens: 3
  • Sensory Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Serenity Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Gressette Children's Garden: 13.5 mi
Attractions: 3
  • Cannon: 14.7 mi
  • Southern X2245: 16.5 mi
  • Southern x476: 23.4 mi
Historic sites: 2
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monument: 0.7 mi
  • Orangeburg Massacre Memorial: 1.3 mi
Nature reserves: 1
Springs: 1
  • God's Acre Healing Springs: 24.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Edisto Memorial Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Haigs HillN 351°97 m22.4 mi
Quartemans HillSW 221°69 m19.7 mi
Red HillN 356°36 m20.5 mi
Bradys Cattle MountN 8°30 m21.2 mi
Cooners Cattle MountNNE 13°29 m22.2 mi
Big Lake Cattle MountNNE 14°28 m21.1 mi
Old Dead River Cattle MountNNE 17°27 m21.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2819:0319:35
June solstice06:1520:0120:37
September equinox07:1218:4919:22
December solstice07:2416:4217:20

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Dec.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485158657379828176665650
Precip in4.03.93.93.34.05.55.85.34.53.53.13.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orangeburg 2, under a mile away.

  • Pantropical Jumping Spider45 obs
  • Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth21 obs
  • Canada Goose15 obs
  • Spanish moss14 obs
  • Goatweed Leafwing14 obs
  • peppervine14 obs
  • Muscovy Duck11 obs
  • Spring starflower11 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/1185576761

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