Garden · Iowa
Kiwanis Butterfly Garden
Kiwanis Butterfly Garden is a garden in Iowa, at a modelled elevation of 300 m. The nearest named place is Kiwanis Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway passes 0.7 miles off.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
Coordinates42.01223, -93.44580
- 0.7 mi off the Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway, National
- 128.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Kiwanis Park: 0.3 mi
- Score Park: 0.4 mi
- Evergreen Lane (Briggs Terrace) Historical Site: 0.4 mi
- Mardean Park: 0.7 mi
- Meadow Lane Park: 0.7 mi
Nature reserves
- Wilson Farm Prairie: 1.2 mi
- Gladys Leui Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Cooper Prairie Marsh: 5.9 mi
- Robison Wildlife Acres: 6.0 mi
- Ketelsen Greenwing Marsh: 6.5 mi
Artworks
- AASOE Site: 8.5 mi
- Cy-House Rock!: 8.5 mi
- AAOSE Site: 8.5 mi
- AAOSE Site: 8.5 mi
- AASOE Site: 8.6 mi
Historic sites: 49
- Billy Sunday Birthplace Rock: 8.1 mi
- H.L. Munn Memorial: 8.5 mi
- David A. Dobell Memorial: 8.5 mi
- Durham Bandshell Memorial: 8.5 mi
- Ames Circle of Arts: 8.5 mi
Gardens: 22
- Community Gardens: 9.2 mi
- Penkhus Campanile Garden: 9.8 mi
- Jones Rose Garden: 9.8 mi
- Trial Garden: 9.8 mi
- Buck Rose Collection: 9.8 mi
Attractions: 16
- Turkey Pen: 9.4 mi
- Ducks: 9.4 mi
- Chickens: 9.4 mi
- Goat Pen: 9.4 mi
- Elwood the Gnome: 9.9 mi
Museums: 15
- Ames History Museum: 8.6 mi
- Maxwell Historical Society: 8.9 mi
- Maxwell Museum: 9.0 mi
- Brunnier Art Museum: 9.8 mi
- Farm House Museum: 10.2 mi
Picnic sites: 1
- Kiwanis Shelter: 0.3 mi
Waterfalls: 1
- Hertz Family Falls: 1.5 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:49 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 20:11 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:36 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:39 | 16:01 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 18 | 23 | 35 | 48 | 60 | 70 | 73 | 71 | 63 | 51 | 37 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Colo, 7 mi away.
- Virginia Springbeauty7 obs
- Red Crossbill5 obs
- Virginia bluebells5 obs
- blue phlox5 obs
- DeKay's Brownsnake4 obs
- Dutchman's breeches4 obs
- Red-spotted Admiral4 obs
- Acanthocephala terminalis4 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
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