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Forward Garden

Forward Garden from directly overhead

Forward Garden is a garden in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 349 m. Blue Mounds stands 524 m to the west-southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Theme Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Lower Wisconsin River Road Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off. 31 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.07541, -89.56768
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Theme Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Native American Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Rain Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Emmett Schulte Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Good Shephard Food Pantry Garden: 4.3 mi
Nature reserves
Parks
  • Pioneer Park: 0.3 mi
  • Sauk Heights Park: 0.9 mi
  • Spruce Hollow Park: 0.9 mi
  • Blackhawk Park: 1.0 mi
  • Sugar Maple Park: 1.2 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Toy Soldier: 5.2 mi
  • St Andrew's Mary Statue: 5.9 mi
  • Bison Prairie Gateway Bisons: 6.2 mi
  • Allied Community Obelisk: 6.3 mi
  • Community: 6.4 mi
Attractions: 41
  • Richardson Cave: 3.3 mi
  • Riley Wishing Tree: 5.1 mi
  • Black Hawk's Cave: 6.2 mi
  • Raymer's Ravine: 6.5 mi
  • Rhino: 8.0 mi
Peaks: 31
Museums: 28
Beaches: 25
  • Spring Harbor Beach: 5.0 mi
  • Fireman's Beach: 6.8 mi
  • Willow Beach: 7.5 mi
  • Circle Bench: 7.6 mi
  • Indianola Beach: 7.8 mi
Cliffs: 13
Springs: 9
  • Spring House: 2.4 mi
  • Riley Spring: 4.5 mi
  • Merrill Spring: 5.1 mi
  • Springs: 5.3 mi
  • Ho Nee Um Spring: 7.0 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Tribal Council Picnic: 5.2 mi
  • Picnic Table and Gazebo: 8.3 mi
  • Williams Knoll: 18.7 mi
  • MacKenzie Picnic Area: 24.3 mi
Rest areas: 3
  • Train Car: 5.3 mi
  • Poynette Rest Area 12: 24.6 mi
  • Portage Rest Area 11: 24.8 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Cascade Aerator: 6.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue MoundsWSW 257°524 m14.8 mi
Sauk PointN 349°449 m24.8 mi
Sauk HillNNW 337°445 m24.5 mi
Indian CastleW 271°354 m16.8 mi
Sugarloaf HillNNW 337°346 m16.3 mi
Liberty Pole HillSSE 155°338 m18.8 mi
Hogback HillNW 325°329 m24.8 mi
Pine KnobW 277°327 m16.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3319:11
June solstice05:2019:5920:42
September equinox06:4618:2018:57
December solstice07:2715:4116:27

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F182233465868727062503624
Precip in1.51.62.44.14.65.54.74.13.62.92.22.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charmany Farm, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee69 obs
  • wild bergamot35 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee35 obs
  • Culver's root31 obs
  • common milkweed30 obs
  • Monarch29 obs
  • pale Indian plantain28 obs
  • Black-and-gold Bumble Bee24 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1060364734

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