Heritage Garden
Heritage Garden is a garden in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,832 m. Pikes Peak stands 4,302 m to the west, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is The Pinetum, a garden 0.1 miles away. Gold Belt Tour passes 19 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Monument Valley Park
How to reach it
- 18.8 mi off the Gold Belt Tour, National
Overlooks nearby
- Geologic Overlook · 25 mi
- The Valley Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Monument Valley Park: 0.1 mi
- Bristol Park: 0.4 mi
- Legacy Plaza Trailhead: 0.7 mi
- Boulder Crescent Park: 0.8 mi
- VaM's Nature Reserve: 0.9 mi
- Colorado Springs Trolleys: 1.2 mi
- Continuum — the Julie Penrose Fountain: 1.4 mi
- Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site: 2.8 mi
- Lyons Sandstone Quarry: 2.9 mi
- Garden of the Gods Visitor Center: 3.0 mi
- Austin Bluffs: 3.9 mi
- The Mesa: 3.9 mi
- Bear Creek Peak: 4.4 mi
- Pulpit Rock: 4.4 mi
- Iron Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Paul Best Victory Bell: 0.1 mi
- Langer Sundial: 0.4 mi
- Train sculpture: 0.8 mi
- Alan’s Odd Duck: 1.0 mi
- Our Lady of Fatima: 1.0 mi
- Trees of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonist: 0.7 mi
- Man on the Iron Horse: 0.9 mi
- Pikes Peak Range Riders Memorial: 1.1 mi
- First Stake Of The Fountain Colony: 1.1 mi
- Spencer Penrose: 1.2 mi
- The Pinetum: 0.1 mi
- Jagow Garden: 0.2 mi
- Max Kade Garden: 0.2 mi
- Ticknor Garden: 0.2 mi
- Ticknor Garden: 0.2 mi
- American Numismatic & Money Museum: 0.4 mi
- McAllister House Museum: 0.7 mi
- Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum: 1.1 mi
- Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum: 1.4 mi
- U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum: 1.4 mi
- South Spring Cañon Picnic Area: 3.5 mi
- South Canyon: 3.5 mi
- Kinnickinnick: 3.7 mi
- Sentinel Point: 3.7 mi
- Council Grounds: 3.8 mi
- Tahama Spring: 0.7 mi
- Seven Minute Spring: 4.5 mi
- Shoshone Spring: 4.8 mi
- Navajo Spring: 4.8 mi
- Soda Spring: 4.8 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 5.4 mi
- Hill: 5.4 mi
- Weimer: 5.5 mi
- Hull: 5.5 mi
- Shorty: 5.5 mi
- Mesa Open Space: 0.6 mi
- Promntory Point Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Mesa Wildlife Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Concrete Coyote: 2.2 mi
- Cheyenne Mountain State Park: 8.2 mi
- Dakota Hogback: 2.7 mi
- Point Sublime: 4.5 mi
- Devils Slide: 9.5 mi
- Windy Point: 10.6 mi
- Corral Bluffs: 12.5 mi
- Husted: 11.4 mi
- Franceville: 12.9 mi
- Lytle: 17.2 mi
- Gwillimsville: 17.5 mi
- Altman: 18.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of Heritage Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak | W 267° | 4,302 m | 11.6 mi |
| Little Pikes Peak | W 270° | 4,073 m | 12.4 mi |
| Devil's Playground | W 274° | 3,984 m | 13.0 mi |
| Sachett Mountain | W 259° | 3,837 m | 10.7 mi |
| Sentinel Point | W 268° | 3,814 m | 14.8 mi |
| Sheep Mountain | WSW 252° | 3,780 m | 12.7 mi |
| Almagre Mountain | WSW 245° | 3,768 m | 9.7 mi |
| Mount Rosa | SW 224° | 3,507 m | 9.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:36 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:49 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:59 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 27 | 33 | 38 | 46 | 56 | 60 | 58 | 53 | 43 | 33 | 26 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ruxton Park, 8 mi away.
- Western Honey Bee318 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel184 obs
- Red-shouldered Bug182 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider160 obs
- Asiatic Wall Jumping Spider148 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle141 obs
- Common Pill Woodlouse128 obs
- Mule Deer123 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/292243395
Day trips start here
- Colorado Springs · 1 mi
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