Herb Garden
Herb Garden is a garden in Rhode Island, at a modelled elevation of 35 m. Spencer Hill stands 113 m to the northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Frank Carson Playground, a park 0.6 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway runs past it.
What the record says
- Built
- 1970
How to reach it
- On the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 2.4 mi off the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 6.8 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
- 11.8 mi off the Route 102 (Ten Rod Road)
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 14 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Frank Carson Playground: 0.6 mi
- Albro Woods: 1.8 mi
- Middletown Valley Park: 2.7 mi
- Linden Park: 3.0 mi
- Middletown Valley Park: 3.0 mi
- Newport Car Museum: 1.2 mi
- Whitehall Museum House: 2.9 mi
- Prudence Island Historical Society: 3.7 mi
- Founders Hall: 3.7 mi
- Hunter House: 4.5 mi
- Slate Hill: 1.6 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.1 mi
- Bliss Hill: 3.2 mi
- Miantonomi Hill: 3.2 mi
- Turkey Hill: 3.3 mi
- Miantonomi Memorial Park Tower: 3.1 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 3.7 mi
- Patriots Park: 3.7 mi
- Anchor Park: 3.7 mi
- Oliver Perry Monument: 4.6 mi
- High Hill Point: 4.0 mi
- Fogland Marsh Preserve: 4.3 mi
- Seapowet Marsh Management Area: 4.5 mi
- Donavan Marsh: 4.6 mi
- Seapowet Marsh Management Area: 4.7 mi
- Sandy Point Beach: 2.9 mi
- Peckham Beach: 3.9 mi
- Atlantic Beach: 4.5 mi
- Easton's Beach: 4.6 mi
- Surfer's End: 4.6 mi
- Matthew Perry Monument: 4.8 mi
- Channing Truro Statue: 4.8 mi
- Rochambeau Statue and Monument: 5.5 mi
- Statue of Roger Williams: 6.8 mi
- The Sky Improvement Society's Home for Troubled Clouds: 8.0 mi
- Newport Polo: 2.2 mi
- Old Colony House: 4.5 mi
- Save The Bay’s Hamilton Family Aquarium: 4.5 mi
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: 5.0 mi
- Jamestown Golf Course: 5.0 mi
- Burchard Triangle: 6.3 mi
- The Blue Garden: 6.6 mi
- Ecological Oasis: 6.7 mi
- Heber W. Youngken Medicinal Garden: 13.1 mi
- Florence Nightingale Memorial Garden: 13.2 mi
- Marys Seat: 4.8 mi
- The Bluff: 4.9 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 6.7 mi
- Usher Rocks: 7.3 mi
- Rams Head: 7.4 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 6.8 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 10.8 mi
- Factory Pond: 19.6 mi
- Roger Williams Spring: 20.1 mi
- The Falls: 8.2 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 11.1 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 11.4 mi
- Stepstone Falls: 24.6 mi
- Big Beach: 14.7 mi
- Little Beach: 14.9 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 23.2 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 23.2 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 14.8 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 15.0 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.5 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.6 mi
- Beavertail Light: 9.1 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 9.2 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 20.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.7 miles of Herb Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Hill | NW 309° | 113 m | 13.7 mi |
| Yorker Hill | W 262° | 98 m | 12.9 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | NE 37° | 95 m | 8.5 mi |
| Sherman Hill | WSW 254° | 88 m | 12.1 mi |
| Slate Hill | SE 126° | 87 m | 1.6 mi |
| Cook Hill | NE 35° | 85 m | 9.2 mi |
| Drum Rock Hill | NW 314° | 82 m | 12.2 mi |
| Townsend Hill | NNE 33° | 77 m | 10.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:34 | 16:19 |
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 | 31 | 32 | 38 | 47 | 57 | 66 | 72 | 71 | 65 | 55 | 45 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport State AP, 2 mi away.
- common milkweed16 obs
- Osprey16 obs
- ground-ivy14 obs
- sensitive fern14 obs
- lesser celandine14 obs
- tufted vetch12 obs
- multiflora rose12 obs
- common jewelweed11 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/1071381791
Day trips start here
- Newport County · 2 mi
- Middletown · 3 mi
- Portsmouth · 4 mi
- Jamestown · 5 mi
- Newport · 5 mi
- Tiverton · 6 mi
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