Formal Garden
Formal Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 145 m. Bailey Mountain stands 299 m to the northeast, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Potting Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Merritt Parkway passes 11 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 10.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
- 13.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 21.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Grumman ave/ Merritt pkwy bridge · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Potting Garden: 0.0 mi
- Garden: 3.0 mi
- Wildflower Garden Enclosure: 3.6 mi
- Lasdon Public Gardens and & Veterans Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Merestead Formal Garden: 5.6 mi
- John Jay Homestead: 0.1 mi
- Beaver Dam Park: 0.8 mi
- Katonah Memorial Park Baseball Field: 1.7 mi
- Katonah Memorial Park: 1.7 mi
- Bedford Audubon Society Park: 2.4 mi
- Katonah Museum of Art: 1.1 mi
- Trailside Nature Museum: 3.7 mi
- Hammond Museum: 6.8 mi
- Keeler Tavern Museum: 8.6 mi
- Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: 8.6 mi
- Buxton Gorge: 1.7 mi
- Ramsay Hunt Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Mary Parker Preserve: 2.1 mi
- Mount Holly Sanctuary: 2.2 mi
- Armstrong Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Cyrus Russell Community House: 2.5 mi
- grave of grand rabbi of kasho : 2.8 mi
- Plaque for William Ward, Founder of the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation: 3.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 4.7 mi
- Foundation of former fire tower: 4.7 mi
- Annunaki: 4.2 mi
- River Arch: 12.8 mi
- Arc: 14.4 mi
- Pollinator Pathway Mural: 15.0 mi
- Samford Sign: 15.0 mi
- Mamanasco Beach: 8.3 mi
- Twixt Hills Beach: 9.4 mi
- Mahopac Hills Beach: 10.7 mi
- Tonetta Lake Beach: 11.9 mi
- Brick Beach: 15.2 mi
- Bedford Village Historic District: 3.4 mi
- Weir House: 10.5 mi
- Van Cortlandt Manor: 12.0 mi
- Danbury Fair Mall Carousel: 12.9 mi
- 3-town marker: 15.2 mi
- Castle Rock: 4.2 mi
- Indian Rock Shelter: 4.3 mi
- Old Raven Rocks: 4.7 mi
- Raven's Rock: 13.4 mi
- Beaver Brook Cliff Face: 17.7 mi
- Bergfield Picnic Site: 3.8 mi
- Pell Hill: 3.9 mi
- The Meadow: 10.5 mi
- Reserved Picnic Site: 19.8 mi
- Cedar Grove: 21.8 mi
- Farms Falls: 9.0 mi
- Sheep Falls: 10.9 mi
- Cascade: 11.1 mi
- Cascade: 13.2 mi
- Saugatuck Falls: 13.5 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 11.9 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 13.0 mi
- RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 13.0 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 20.7 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 20.8 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 17.5 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 17.5 mi
- Peck Ledge Light: 19.3 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 24.7 mi
- Dicktown: 16.7 mi
- Cuties Island: 16.8 mi
- Doodletown: 18.2 mi
- The Silver Spring: 8.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.0 miles of Formal Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey Mountain | NE 53° | 299.314 m | 7.0 mi |
| Piano Mountain | NW 307° | 299 m | 11.0 mi |
| Senior Hill | NNW 332° | 292 m | 9.2 mi |
| Watermelon Hill | NNW 338° | 290 m | 8.5 mi |
| Barlow Mountain | ENE 58° | 290 m | 9.8 mi |
| West Mountain | ENE 62° | 285 m | 7.8 mi |
| Ned Mountain | NE 47° | 284 m | 9.9 mi |
| Seth Low Mountain | NE 54° | 283 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:45 | 16:29 |
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 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Yorktown HTS 1W, 7 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee90 obs
- garlic mustard77 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle67 obs
- Porcelain Berry64 obs
- Japanese barberry58 obs
- Eastern Black-legged Tick56 obs
- wineberry54 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly54 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/617506139
Day trips start here
- Briarcliff Manor · 12 mi
- Croton-on-Hudson · 12 mi
- Ossining · 12 mi
- Stamford · 12 mi
- Putnam County · 13 mi
- Valhalla · 13 mi
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