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HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden

HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden from directly overhead

HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden is a garden in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 225 m. Terrapin Mountain stands 1,062 m to the west-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Odd Tree, a historic site 1.4 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 12 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates37.44790, -79.19367

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Odd Tree: 1.4 mi
  • Even Post: 1.4 mi
  • Riverside Pool: 1.7 mi
  • Constitution Tree Plaque: 1.9 mi
  • Pest House: 3.1 mi
Parks
Peaks
Museums: 22
  • Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College: 1.4 mi
  • Horse Hearse and Caretaker's Museum: 3.0 mi
  • Pest House Medical Museum: 3.0 mi
  • Station House Museum: 3.0 mi
  • Legacy Museum of African American History: 3.2 mi
Artworks: 18
  • Olympic Runner: 3.1 mi
  • Mayor: 3.3 mi
  • Piano: 3.4 mi
  • LYH LOVES YOU: 3.5 mi
  • Metal Sculpture: 3.7 mi
Gardens: 17
  • Randolph College Organic Garden: 1.4 mi
  • Daniel's Hill Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Yoder Center Garden: 3.0 mi
  • Daniel's Hill Center Garden: 3.2 mi
  • Robert D Morrison Garden: 3.3 mi
Attractions: 14
Springs: 8
  • Marble Spring: 15.9 mi
  • Hunting Spring: 16.6 mi
  • Sulphur Spring: 17.0 mi
  • Cow Camp Spring: 20.7 mi
  • Wiggins Spring: 21.5 mi
Nature reserves: 4
  • Hollins Mill Park: 2.6 mi
  • Carry Nature Sanctuary: 9.8 mi
  • Claytor Nature Center: 19.5 mi
  • Mt. Pleasant Roadless Area: 20.2 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Rest areas: 1
  • J.H. Phillips Wayside: 10.2 mi
Cliffs: 1
Picnic sites: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.7 miles of HumanKind and Hill City Master Gardener Davis Instructional Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Terrapin MountainWNW 289°1,062 m15.5 mi
Highcock KnobWNW 301°931 m15.7 mi
Silas KnobNNW 327°904 m16.7 mi
Tobacco Row MountainN 1°876 m8.1 mi
High PeakN 1°876 m8.1 mi
No Business MountainW 279°837 m10.1 mi
Rocky MountainWNW 282°712 m8.5 mi
Shady MountainN 10°687 m11.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2118:5419:29
June solstice05:5720:0320:42
September equinox07:0518:4119:15
December solstice07:2816:2217:03

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F363845556371757467564638
Precip in3.42.93.73.64.24.04.13.63.93.43.23.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lynchburg #2, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer31 obs
  • Turkey Vulture21 obs
  • Painted Turtle14 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle14 obs
  • Monarch14 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail14 obs
  • Huron Skipper14 obs
  • Blue Dasher13 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/1000887258

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