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Lavender Garden

Lavender Garden from directly overhead

Lavender Garden is a garden in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,676 m. Riley Peak stands 2,854 m to the west-southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Prairie Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Lariat Loop Scenic and Historic Byway passes 8.3 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Customers only
Fee
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.55138, -105.09897

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Prairie Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield: 0.0 mi
  • Lavender Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms: 0.0 mi
  • Plant Select Garden: 0.1 mi
Parks
  • Wildlife Observation Blind: 0.4 mi
  • Wingate South Park: 0.5 mi
  • Deer Creek Park: 0.7 mi
  • TrailMark Park: 0.9 mi
  • Willow Creek Park: 1.1 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
  • Waterton: 2.3 mi
  • Bill Couch Mountain: 3.4 mi
  • Plymouth Mountain: 3.4 mi
  • Rebel Hill: 3.8 mi
  • Warren Peak: 4.2 mi
Attractions
Artworks
Museums: 52
Picnic sites: 49
Nature reserves: 48
Beaches: 6
Cliffs: 6
Waterfalls: 4
  • Lee Gulch: 5.8 mi
  • The Chutes: 12.4 mi
  • Maxwell Falls: 14.9 mi
  • Elk Falls: 17.1 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Natural arches: 1
  • Keyhole Rock: 9.7 mi
Springs: 1
  • Arapaho Spring: 23.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.7 miles of Lavender Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Riley PeakWSW 244°2,854 m10.7 mi
Berrian MountainW 271°2,785 m10.3 mi
Legault MountainW 262°2,757 m8.9 mi
Doublehead MountainW 275°2,711 m8.7 mi
Crow HillWSW 257°2,638 m8.0 mi
Huebner PeakWSW 245°2,633 m7.5 mi
Bear MountainWNW 296°2,630 m11.3 mi
High PeakWSW 256°2,611 m7.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0518:3719:13
June solstice05:3419:5220:32
September equinox06:4918:2418:59
December solstice07:1815:5816:40

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323340475667737163514031
Precip in0.60.71.72.42.51.81.72.01.71.50.90.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kassler, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Woodhouse's Toad99 obs
  • Western Terrestrial Garter Snake77 obs
  • American White Pelican57 obs
  • Western Honey Bee54 obs
  • Nevada Bumble Bee54 obs
  • Monarch53 obs
  • Gopher Snake52 obs
  • American Bullfrog52 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/12140781380

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