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Hillsborough Community Garden

Hillsborough Community Garden from directly overhead

Hillsborough Community Garden is a garden in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 153 m. Cane Creek Mountains stands 301 m to the west-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is The Society of the Cincinnati Monument, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Colonial Heritage Byway passes 0.3 miles off. 34 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
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Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates36.07173, -79.09294

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Occaneechi Village Replica Site: 0.3 mi
  • River Park: 0.3 mi
  • Mayo Park: 0.5 mi
  • Turnip Patch Park: 0.9 mi
  • Cates Creek Park: 1.5 mi
Attractions: 42
Nature reserves: 39
Peaks: 34
  • Poplar Ridge: 1.1 mi
  • Brown Elfin Knob: 1.3 mi
  • Occoneechee Mountain: 1.7 mi
  • Scarlett Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Currie Hill: 4.2 mi
Historic sites: 32
Artworks: 24
  • River Park Arch: 0.4 mi
  • Belmont Dragon: 9.7 mi
  • Plaid Cow: 9.8 mi
  • James B. Duke: 9.9 mi
  • Pyramid Sculpture: 10.3 mi
Gardens: 23
Museums: 20
  • Orange County Historical Society: 0.5 mi
  • Duke Homestead Tobacco Museum: 9.9 mi
  • Mebane Historical Museum: 10.1 mi
  • Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography: 10.2 mi
  • Nasher Museum of Art: 10.4 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • Small Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 13.6 mi
  • Large Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 13.6 mi
  • Shelter #3: 20.3 mi
  • Shelter #2: 20.3 mi
  • Shelter #4: 20.3 mi
Beaches: 7
  • Bobbit's Hole: 6.1 mi
  • Parker's Creek Beach: 22.9 mi
  • White Oak Beach: 23.3 mi
  • Crosswinds Beach: 23.3 mi
  • Haw river beach: 24.1 mi
Cliffs: 3
Waterfalls: 2
Rest areas: 2
  • Alamance County Rest Area: 24.7 mi
  • Alamance County Rest Area: 24.7 mi
Springs: 1
  • Ye Olde Valley Spring: 7.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cane Creek MountainsWSW 246°301 m21.0 mi
Stony Creek MountainNW 304°286 m21.5 mi
Bass MountainWSW 243°275 m19.0 mi
Occoneechee MountainWSW 247°261 m1.7 mi
Glenns MountainNE 39°244 m16.9 mi
Red MountainNE 40°243 m15.3 mi
Pickards MountainSSW 207°237 m8.3 mi
Brown Elfin KnobWSW 244°234 m1.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2118:5519:28
June solstice06:0119:5920:37
September equinox07:0518:4119:15
December solstice07:2416:2717:06

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404350596674787670605043
Precip in3.43.34.23.93.84.24.23.85.63.33.33.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Durham 11 W, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler331 obs
  • Blue Jay191 obs
  • mountain laurel186 obs
  • Eastern Bluebird177 obs
  • Tufted Titmouse173 obs
  • White-throated Sparrow172 obs
  • Northern Cardinal170 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail169 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.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1348140990

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