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HOPE Gardens

HOPE Gardens from directly overhead

HOPE Gardens is a garden in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 156 m. Cane Creek Mountains stands 301 m to the west, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Homestead Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Football Road passes 3.4 miles off. 37 named summits stand within 25 miles.

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Coordinates35.95301, -79.06985

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Homestead Park: 0.5 mi
  • North Forest Hills Park: 1.1 mi
  • Della Street Park: 1.3 mi
  • Twin Creeks Park: 2.0 mi
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Park: 2.1 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 45
Nature reserves: 44
Peaks: 37
  • Nunn Mountain: 1.1 mi
  • Iron Mine Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Stony Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Blackwood Mountain: 2.3 mi
  • Big Hill: 2.6 mi
Historic sites: 32
Gardens: 24
Museums: 24
Picnic sites: 10
  • Small Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 5.3 mi
  • Large Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 5.3 mi
  • White Oak Recreation Area: 15.2 mi
  • Youth camp tables, fire pit, wood storage: 18.5 mi
  • Observation Platform: 19.8 mi
Beaches: 9
  • Bobbit's Hole: 8.1 mi
  • Parker's Creek Beach: 14.6 mi
  • White Oak Beach: 15.0 mi
  • Crosswinds Beach: 15.0 mi
  • Seaforth Beach: 15.8 mi
Cliffs: 3
Waterfalls: 2
Springs: 1
  • Ye Olde Valley Spring: 9.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cane Creek MountainsW 269°301 m20.5 mi
Bass MountainW 268°275 m18.2 mi
Occoneechee MountainNNW 339°261 m8.1 mi
Glenns MountainNNE 24°244 m23.3 mi
Red MountainNNE 23°243 m21.7 mi
Pickards MountainW 278°237 m5.1 mi
Brown Elfin KnobNNW 342°234 m8.0 mi
Bald MountainWNW 303°232 m2.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2118:5419:28
June solstice06:0119:5920:37
September equinox07:0518:4119:15
December solstice07:2416:2717:07

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424451606876807872615144
Precip in3.42.83.93.63.54.44.13.84.43.23.23.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chapel Hill Williams AP, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer205 obs
  • American sweetgum175 obs
  • Christmas fern136 obs
  • Common Box Turtle100 obs
  • American beech98 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk93 obs
  • Green Anole93 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel84 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/514040366

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