First Bloom Garden
First Bloom Garden is a garden in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 16 m. Mount Foster stands 2,173 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Pantheon Saloon, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Alaska's Marine Highway passes 0.5 miles off. 84 named places lie within 25 miles, 37 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Skagway Youth
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the Alaska's Marine Highway, National
- 13.0 mi off the Haines Highway - Valley of the Eagles, National
Overlooks nearby
- Kelgaya point · 17 mi
- Battery point · 17 mi
84 named places within 25 miles
- Twin Dewey Peaks: 3.1 mi
- Face Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Parsons Peak: 4.3 mi
- Mount Harding: 4.8 mi
- A B Mountain: 5.2 mi
- Pantheon Saloon: 0.0 mi
- Packer Expeditions: 0.0 mi
- Golden North Hotel: 0.0 mi
- The Mascot: 0.1 mi
- Boas Tailor & Furrier Shop: 0.1 mi
- Red Onion Saloon Brothel Museum: 0.1 mi
- Soapy Smith's Parlor: 0.1 mi
- Historic Moore Homestead: 0.1 mi
- City of Skagway Museum: 0.2 mi
- Hammer Museum: 15.8 mi
- Molly Walsh Park: 0.1 mi
- Skagway Centennial Park: 0.2 mi
- Seven Pastures: 0.9 mi
- Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve: 19.1 mi
- Mosquito Lake Recreation Area: 24.8 mi
- Sweetooth Garden: 0.0 mi
- Corrington Lot: 0.1 mi
- Jewell Gardens: 1.2 mi
- Lower Reid Falls: 1.7 mi
- Upper Reid Falls: 1.7 mi
- Pitchfork Falls: 6.7 mi
- The Heart of Broadway: 0.1 mi
- Gold Rush Stampeders: 0.1 mi
- Soapy and Reed Gunfight Plaque: 0.2 mi
- Fort Seward: 16.3 mi
- Dyea Campground Picnic Area: 3.7 mi
- Dyea: 3.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of First Bloom Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Foster | NNW 347° | 2,173 m | 24.4 mi |
| Mount Van Wagenen | N 356° | 2,146 m | 19.6 mi |
| Mount Bagot | SE 126° | 2,144 m | 12.6 mi |
| Klukwah Mountain | WNW 296° | 2,134 m | 21.4 mi |
| Hefty Peak | E 91° | 2,119 m | 8.4 mi |
| Taiya Peak | NNE 16° | 2,086 m | 16.7 mi |
| Mount Carmack | NNE 15° | 2,075 m | 7.5 mi |
| Boundary Peak 108 | ESE 112° | 2,074 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:22 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 03:44 | 21:07 | 22:24 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:09 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 08:59 | 13:06 | 15:01 |
Local time (America/Juneau).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 28 | 32 | 41 | 50 | 57 | 59 | 57 | 50 | 42 | 32 | 28 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Skagway, under a mile away.
- fireweed126 obs
- Devil's Club115 obs
- squashberry107 obs
- Fly Agaric87 obs
- American Crow86 obs
- American Red Squirrel80 obs
- rugosa rose77 obs
- common toadflax74 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.
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