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Garden 2: Bluff

Garden 2: Bluff from directly overhead

Garden 2: Bluff is a garden in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 50 m. Elkhorn Mountain stands 679 m to the northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Garden 1: Waldschmidt Hall, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. JCT SR 5 VIC VANCOUVER ALONG WESTSIDE VANCOUVER LAKE TO NW LOWER RIVER RD passes 4.7 miles off.

Behind Swindell's Hall

How to reach it

Coordinates45.57098, -122.72471

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Garden 1: Waldschmidt Hall: 0.0 mi
  • Garden 3: Bell Tower: 0.1 mi
  • Marian Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Garden 4: Bauccio Commons: 0.1 mi
  • Garden 20: Buckley Auditorium: 0.1 mi
Parks
Artworks
Attractions
Peaks
Museums: 54
Picnic sites: 26
Waterfalls: 23
  • Cedar Mill Falls: 4.7 mi
  • Jane Martin Waterfall: 7.7 mi
  • Knapp Falls: 10.7 mi
  • Jackson Falls: 10.9 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 15.1 mi
Beaches: 15
  • Lindbergh’s Beach: 1.7 mi
  • North Beach: 4.3 mi
  • Surprise Beach: 4.5 mi
  • Poet's Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Lieser Point: 7.2 mi
Cliffs: 9
  • Waud Bluff: 0.1 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 7.8 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 8.0 mi
  • Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 8.0 mi
  • Phantom Bluff: 11.4 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Springs: 5
  • School District Spring: 15.1 mi
  • Fern Spring: 19.3 mi
  • Oliver Spring: 19.6 mi
  • Normandin Spring: 22.9 mi
  • Giesy Spring: 24.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.6 miles of Garden 2: Bluff. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Elkhorn MountainNE 56°679 m20.6 mi
Buck MountainNW 315°649 m20.4 mi
Livingston MountainENE 66°595 m18.8 mi
Spud MountainENE 65°576 m19.7 mi
Rye HillNW 308°566 m18.9 mi
Bald MountainWNW 297°539 m21.6 mi
Bald PeakSW 233°497 m20.1 mi
Dixie MountainNW 312°490 m13.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4419:24
June solstice05:2320:1821:04
September equinox06:5918:3119:10
December solstice07:4915:4116:31

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424548535963697065554742
Precip in6.44.74.83.62.61.50.40.51.64.06.67.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Portland Kgw-tv, 4 mi away.

  • tree-of-heaven134 obs
  • Pacific trillium94 obs
  • Oregon oak75 obs
  • Pacific madrone74 obs
  • Cross Orbweaver66 obs
  • Red-flowering Currant65 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider64 obs
  • Pacific Banana Slug61 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/13665922804

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