Kaity's Garden
Kaity's Garden is a garden in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 131 m. Bald Knob stands 314 m to the south-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is West Walnut Field, a park 0.1 miles away. Great River Road passes 13 miles off. 25 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 13.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 28.0 mi off the Great River Road - Missouri
Named places within 25 miles
- West Walnut Field: 0.1 mi
- Library Garden: 0.1 mi
- West Walnut Street Historic District: 0.2 mi
- Carbondale Station Park: 0.2 mi
- City Event Lot: 0.3 mi
- McKinney Hill: 4.3 mi
- Indian Hill: 5.0 mi
- Mount Carbon: 5.6 mi
- Swallow Rock: 10.3 mi
- Lookout Rocks: 11.4 mi
- Merideth Funeral Home: 0.1 mi
- SIU Entrance Monument: 0.4 mi
- SIU Entrance Monument: 0.8 mi
- SIU Entrance Monument: 0.8 mi
- SIU Entrance Monument: 0.8 mi
- Morava Point: 1.1 mi
- Saluki Cove: 1.3 mi
- Cypress Retreat: 1.3 mi
- Hickory Grove Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Shady Cove: 9.3 mi
- k: 1.1 mi
- Faery: 3.6 mi
- Dragon: 3.6 mi
- Wizard on Dragon: 3.6 mi
- Blue Dragon: 3.6 mi
- Chautauqua Bottoms: 1.4 mi
- Fern Rocks Nature Preserve: 7.3 mi
- Giant City State Park: 8.3 mi
- Lake Murphysboro State Park: 9.4 mi
- Burning Star State Fish and Wildlife Area: 9.6 mi
- ps: 6.5 mi
- Mystic Willow: 6.5 mi
- ps: 7.8 mi
- ps: 7.9 mi
- Pomona Natural Bridge: 8.6 mi
- Shelter bluff: 8.8 mi
- Abneyville Rock: 10.5 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Horseshoe Bluff: 11.2 mi
- Fountain Bluff: 16.0 mi
- The Carbondale Depot Museum: 0.2 mi
- Sharp Museum: 0.6 mi
- African American Museum of Southern Illinois: 1.5 mi
- Carterville Heritage Museum: 8.2 mi
- Giant City Visitor Center: 8.7 mi
- Brownsville: 9.5 mi
- Chamness: 13.1 mi
- Halfway: 16.3 mi
- Lovejoy: 21.4 mi
- Halfway: 22.6 mi
- Flyover Public Garden: 0.4 mi
- Kumakura Garden: 0.6 mi
- Student Center Garden: 0.8 mi
- Heritage Garden: 7.3 mi
- Seep: 9.1 mi
- Cave Spring: 13.3 mi
- Bottoms Spring: 14.5 mi
- Kinkaid Lake Spillway Falls: 13.0 mi
- Bjork's Falls: 16.7 mi
- Campground Beach: 7.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kaity's Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | SSW 210° | 314 m | 13.8 mi |
| Tiptop Knob | S 184° | 269 m | 13.0 mi |
| Government Rock | SW 229° | 250 m | 15.7 mi |
| Grassy Knob | SW 236° | 241 m | 13.8 mi |
| McGee Hill | SW 224° | 240 m | 17.0 mi |
| Buck Knob | SSE 153° | 217 m | 15.6 mi |
| Iron Mountain | SSW 199° | 212 m | 15.3 mi |
| Swallow Rock | WSW 257° | 198 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:44 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:21 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 16:01 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 36 | 45 | 56 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 46 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carbondale Sewage PLT, 3 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer164 obs
- common pawpaw163 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel140 obs
- American sweetgum132 obs
- eastern redbud129 obs
- American sycamore121 obs
- Amur honeysuckle112 obs
- fortune's spindle104 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/562909724
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