Skip to content
Byway
Garden · Washington

Kubota Garden

Kubota Garden from directly overhead

Kubota Garden is a garden in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 39 m. Mount Si / q̓əlbc̓ stands 1,254 m to the east, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Stone Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Mountains to Sound Greenway - I-90 passes 5.2 miles off. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates47.51308, -122.26717

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Stone Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Mountainside: 0.1 mi
  • Tom Kubota Stroll Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Maple Woods: 0.1 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Parks
  • Fletcher Place: 0.5 mi
  • Detective Cookie Chess Park: 0.5 mi
  • Chinook Beach Park: 0.6 mi
  • South Carver Street End: 0.6 mi
  • Park Drive South Street End: 0.8 mi
Beaches: 60
  • Pritchard Island Beach: 1.2 mi
  • Kennydale Beach: 2.9 mi
  • 8th Avenue South Street End: 3.0 mi
  • North Beach: 3.5 mi
  • Mercerwood Shore Club beach: 4.9 mi
Attractions
Museums
Nature reserves
  • Hamm Creek Natural Area: 2.0 mi
  • Springbrook Greenbelt: 5.3 mi
  • Walker Creek Preserve: 5.6 mi
  • Coal Creek Natural Area: 5.6 mi
  • Tribal Elder Bernice White Place: 5.8 mi
Peaks: 58
  • First Hill: 4.9 mi
  • High Point: 5.5 mi
  • Marshall's Hill: 6.0 mi
  • First Hill: 7.0 mi
  • Cherry Hill: 7.5 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • Shelter 2: 2.6 mi
  • Shelter #1: 3.7 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 5.5 mi
  • The Meadow -- Picnic Area B: 5.6 mi
  • Picnic Area A: 5.7 mi
Lighthouses: 14
Ghost towns: 10
Waterfalls: 10
  • Far Country Falls: 6.5 mi
  • North Fork Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Coal Creek Falls: 7.1 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 7.4 mi
  • Waterwall: 7.8 mi
Cliffs: 6
Springs: 4
  • Ravenna Park Sulfur Spring: 11.1 mi
  • Licton Springs: 13.3 mi
  • Maplewood Spring: 23.5 mi
  • Canyon Spring: 24.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount Si / q̓əlbc̓E 91°1,254 m24.7 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - Middle PeakE 100°1,004 m21.9 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - West PeakE 98°994.257 m21.0 mi
East Tiger MountainE 96°913 m15.0 mi
West Tiger #1E 93°891 m13.6 mi
West Tiger #2E 91°841 m13.2 mi
Tiger Middle SummitE 98°795 m14.0 mi
Taylor MountainESE 103°792 m17.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4119:22
June solstice05:1220:2321:11
September equinox06:5718:2819:09
December solstice07:5515:2816:21

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434447515862676862544642
Precip in4.93.23.72.81.91.50.60.91.53.55.64.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Renton Muni AP, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Ptenothrix maculosa248 obs
  • white clover170 obs
  • Dicyrtomina ornata138 obs
  • Red Clover131 obs
  • Dicyrtomina saundersi118 obs
  • western sword fern117 obs
  • ribwort plantain115 obs
  • bigleaf maple111 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/42006992

More gardens in Washington

Day trips start here

Drive to it

Byway plans a real route around stops like this one.

Plan a driveMore gardens
Private beta · Free to join

Take the scenic way to Kubota Garden.

Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.

Private beta · Free to join · No card · Invite when a spot opens