Italian Garden
Italian Garden is a garden in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 679 m. Big Cedar Mountain stands 1,159 m to the east-northeast, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Shrub Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 1.8 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Biltmore Estate
How to reach it
- 1.8 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 8.4 mi off the Drovers Road
- 11.1 mi off the French Broad Overview
- 13.7 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
Overlooks nearby
- French Broad River Overlook · 4 mi
- French Broad Overlook · 4 mi
- Haw Creek Valley (MP 380.0) · 6 mi
- Sleepy Gap Parking · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Lone Pine Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Busbee Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Frady Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Ducker Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Blake Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Rosebank Park: 0.7 mi
- Brooklawn Park: 1.5 mi
- Biltmore Plaza: 2.0 mi
- Amboy Road River Park: 2.1 mi
- Karen Cragnolin Park: 2.2 mi
- Lake Louise Falls: 10.3 mi
- Reems Creek Falls: 10.7 mi
- Bee Branch Falls: 12.4 mi
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 12.6 mi
- Slate Rock Creek Falls: 12.9 mi
- The Bunkum Stone: 3.6 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 3.8 mi
- Young Men's Institute: 3.8 mi
- Anne Penland: 3.9 mi
- Thomas Wolfe Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Shrub Garden: 0.0 mi
- Walled Garden: 0.1 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.1 mi
- Spring Garden: 0.2 mi
- Azalea Garden: 0.2 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 3.8 mi
- Asheville Museum of Science: 3.8 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 3.9 mi
- Asheville Pinball Museum: 3.9 mi
- Bob Moog Foundation: 4.0 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 0.8 mi
- Antler Hill Village: 2.1 mi
- Ironland: 3.8 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 5.2 mi
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: 7.5 mi
- Statue of Diana: 0.2 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 2.6 mi
- TebbeArt Studios: 2.7 mi
- JMK236 Studio: 2.7 mi
- Foundation Graffiti Park: 2.7 mi
- Falconhurst-West Asheville Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary: 6.5 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 12.6 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 15.4 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 4.7 mi
- Jump Off Rock: 15.7 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 16.9 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 17.0 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 18.4 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 14.3 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 20.4 mi
- Coontree Picnic Area: 21.0 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 22.5 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 14.2 mi
- Crystal Spring: 16.1 mi
- Lenox Spring: 16.7 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 19.5 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 19.6 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 7.9 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 7.9 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 5.8 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 11.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.9 miles of Italian Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Cedar Mountain | ENE 79° | 1,159 m | 5.7 mi |
| Peach Knob | NNE 25° | 1,150 m | 7.7 mi |
| Billy Cove Knob | WSW 237° | 1,126 m | 7.6 mi |
| Stradley Mountain | WSW 240° | 1,119 m | 7.0 mi |
| Hickory Top | WSW 240° | 1,119 m | 7.0 mi |
| Butler Mountain | E 97° | 1,086 m | 4.7 mi |
| Rich Knob | NNE 20° | 1,074 m | 6.4 mi |
| Busbee Mountain | ESE 115° | 1,063 m | 3.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:09 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 20:12 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:55 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:42 | 17:22 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 38 | 45 | 54 | 62 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 55 | 45 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bent Creek, 4 mi away.
- Wild Turkey106 obs
- Canada Goose61 obs
- Common Five-lined Skink47 obs
- Western Honey Bee45 obs
- Silver-spotted Skipper41 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee41 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail40 obs
- Pharaoh Cicada39 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/830192286
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 3 mi
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