Skip to content
Byway
Garden · Oregon

Greenfingers Community Garden

Greenfingers Community Garden from directly overhead

Greenfingers Community Garden is a garden in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 126 m. South Fork Mountain stands 1,473 m to the southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Drought-tolerant garden, a garden 0.3 miles away. West Cascades passes 12 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Clackamas Community College
Access
community
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates45.32789, -122.57233

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
  • Tyrone S. Woods Park: 0.7 mi
  • Hillendale Park: 1.2 mi
  • Wesley Lynn Park: 1.6 mi
  • Stafford Park: 1.7 mi
  • Singer Creek Park: 1.9 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Artworks
Peaks
Attractions: 57
Museums: 52
Waterfalls: 23
  • Tumble Creek Falls: 0.7 mi
  • Coffee Creek Falls: 2.5 mi
  • Singer Falls: 2.6 mi
  • Willamette Falls: 2.8 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 7.2 mi
Picnic sites: 16
  • Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation: 2.9 mi
  • Stonesthrow Picnic and BBQ Area: 9.1 mi
  • Memorial Park Picnic Area 2: 9.3 mi
  • Memorial Park Picnic Area 3: 9.4 mi
  • Memorial Park Picnic Area 1: 9.5 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Madrone Wall: 7.1 mi
  • Phantom Bluff: 8.2 mi
  • Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 15.2 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 15.3 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 15.5 mi
Beaches: 10
  • Poet's Beach: 13.3 mi
  • Swim beach: 16.7 mi
  • Lindbergh’s Beach: 16.8 mi
  • Sandy River Beach: 17.5 mi
  • Lieser Point: 19.2 mi
Springs: 4
  • spring w/concrete cover: 8.3 mi
  • Giesy Spring: 12.5 mi
  • Oliver Spring: 18.4 mi
  • School District Spring: 23.0 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Rest areas: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Greenfingers Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South Fork MountainSE 135°1,473 m23.0 mi
Soosap PeakSE 139°1,419 m23.3 mi
Wanderers PeakSE 130°1,306 m23.7 mi
Goat MountainSE 135°1,282 m19.1 mi
Lookout PointENE 63°802 m24.1 mi
Walker PeakENE 65°736 m23.7 mi
Bedford PointESE 111°714 m20.6 mi
Pepper MountainNE 54°655 m23.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4419:23
June solstice05:2320:1721:03
September equinox06:5818:3119:10
December solstice07:4815:4216:31

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434549536065717165564742
Precip in6.54.54.83.82.51.80.50.61.64.26.77.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oregon City, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard32 obs
  • purple foxglove22 obs
  • Oregon grape22 obs
  • Red-flowering Currant18 obs
  • western sword fern17 obs
  • Pacific Waterleaf17 obs
  • Northwestern Garter Snake16 obs
  • Western Honey Bee16 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/130797339

More gardens in Oregon

Day trips start here

Drive to it

Byway plans a real route around stops like this one.

Plan a driveMore gardens
Private beta · Free to join

Take the scenic way to Greenfingers Community Garden.

Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.

Private beta · Free to join · No card · Invite when a spot opens