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Herb Garden

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Herb Garden is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 351 m. Quakers Knob stands 443 m to the southwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Amherst Play Lot, a park 0.7 miles away. Grand View Scenic Byway passes 10 miles off. 44 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.51177, -80.19880

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Amherst Play Lot: 0.7 mi
  • Moon Park: 1.6 mi
  • Chadwick Street Park: 1.8 mi
  • Riverfront Park: 1.9 mi
  • Community Field: 2.1 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Artworks
Museums
Gardens: 57
Peaks: 44
  • Mt. Thornburg: 7.8 mi
  • Observatory Hill: 9.6 mi
  • Bunker Hill: 10.1 mi
  • Clover Hill: 10.6 mi
  • Monument Hill: 10.7 mi
Attractions: 24
  • The Edgeworth Club: 2.4 mi
  • Fern Hollow Nature Center: 3.4 mi
  • Giant Chair: 3.4 mi
  • Urban Assault: 9.9 mi
  • USS Requin: 10.5 mi
Picnic sites: 12
  • White Pine Grove: 6.7 mi
  • Boggs Trailhead Picnic Site: 7.2 mi
  • picnic tables: 11.4 mi
  • Picnic Table: 12.0 mi
  • Picnic tables for Building 800: 12.7 mi
Waterfalls: 9
Cliffs: 4
Beaches: 3
  • Tiger Beach: 8.2 mi
  • Thornburg Beach: 8.5 mi
  • BAB: 13.5 mi
Springs: 1
  • Lacock Spring: 13.4 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Quakers KnobSW 224°443 m16.1 mi
Big KnobN 360°423 m14.5 mi
Garrett HillSSW 198°420 m21.1 mi
Hannas KnobS 177°417 m18.5 mi
Stewart HillWNW 289°412 m18.2 mi
Pollocks KnobSE 144°407 m22.2 mi
Cemetery HillS 187°397 m24.4 mi
Herron HillESE 107°384 m13.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2518:5719:33
June solstice05:5120:1420:55
September equinox07:0918:4419:20
December solstice07:4116:1416:58

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038506169737164524233
Precip in3.12.63.33.64.04.44.13.63.83.13.13.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moon TWP, 2 mi away.

  • Virginia Springbeauty106 obs
  • Carolina Springbeauty73 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly52 obs
  • red trillium28 obs
  • Dryad's Saddle20 obs
  • cut-leaved toothwort19 obs
  • mayapple18 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle17 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 way/617321693

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