Garden · Oregon
Learning Garden
Learning Garden is a garden in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 80 m. Long Mountain stands 689 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Education Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Vineyard and Valley passes 3.1 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Portland Community College
How to reach it
Coordinates45.56521, -122.85977
- 3.1 mi off the Vineyard and Valley
- 8.8 mi off the JCT SR 5 VIC VANCOUVER ALONG WESTSIDE VANCOUVER LAKE TO NW LOWER RIVER RD
- 16.9 mi off the JCT SR 500 VIC VANCOUVER TO JCT SR 5 VIC WOODLAND
- 21.4 mi off the Mount Hood, National
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
Gardens
- Education Garden: 0.1 mi
- Oregon Food Bank Learning Garden: 2.4 mi
- Nissho Iwai Gardens: 4.2 mi
- Howard Vollum Memorial Garden: 4.9 mi
- Garden 9: River Campus Dock: 6.1 mi
Parks
- North Bethany Greenway: 0.3 mi
- Abbey Creek Park: 0.6 mi
- Bethany Lake Park: 0.9 mi
- Parivar Park: 0.9 mi
- Ben Graf Greenway: 1.0 mi
Nature reserves
- Deerfield Woods Natural Area: 0.3 mi
- North Bethany Trail: 0.7 mi
- Holcomb Creek: 0.8 mi
- Bethany Wetlands Natural Area: 1.3 mi
- Adams Wetlands Natural Area: 1.8 mi
Artworks
- Beaver Buddiies: 1.9 mi
- Elemental Sequence: 2.6 mi
- Seeds of Orenco: 3.5 mi
- Topographic Bison: 3.5 mi
- Eliud Kipchoge: 3.9 mi
Historic sites
- Joe Pearson: 3.4 mi
- MISSIONARIES AND METHODIST MEETING HOUSE CONSTRUCTION: 3.8 mi
- SETTLEMENT. WORSHIP, REMOVAL: 3.8 mi
- Pioneer Methodist Meeting House and Cemetary Memorial: 3.8 mi
- TRAPPERS: 3.8 mi
Attractions
- Historic Archibald McGill House: 3.4 mi
- Nike Swoosh: 3.8 mi
- Roloff Farm: 3.8 mi
- LeBron Signature Totem: 3.9 mi
- Hay Pyramid: 3.9 mi
Peaks
- Cornell Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Swede Hill: 6.0 mi
- Elk Point: 6.4 mi
- Mount Williams: 6.4 mi
- Sexton Mountain: 7.6 mi
Museums: 53
- Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals: 4.3 mi
- Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum: 5.0 mi
- Vintage Tek: 5.1 mi
- Japanese Arts Learning Center: 8.0 mi
- The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium and Museum: 8.1 mi
Picnic sites: 26
- Picnic Shelter: 4.0 mi
- Shelter A: 9.0 mi
- Eagle Shelter: 9.8 mi
- Heron Shelter: 9.9 mi
- Picnic Area A: 11.6 mi
Waterfalls: 18
- Cedar Mill Falls: 4.0 mi
- Jackson Falls: 5.5 mi
- Jane Martin Waterfall: 12.4 mi
- Knapp Falls: 16.0 mi
- Bonnie Falls: 16.9 mi
Beaches: 14
- Lindbergh’s Beach: 7.8 mi
- Poet's Beach: 10.0 mi
- Surprise Beach: 10.4 mi
- North Beach: 10.5 mi
- Reeder Beach: 11.4 mi
Cliffs: 8
- Waud Bluff: 6.4 mi
- Phantom Bluff: 13.4 mi
- Rocky Butte Quarry: 14.2 mi
- Rocky Butte Quarry: 14.4 mi
- Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 14.4 mi
Ghost towns: 5
- Roy: 10.9 mi
- Fulton: 11.2 mi
- Greenville: 12.4 mi
- Thatcher: 13.6 mi
- Champoeg: 21.9 mi
Springs: 5
- Fern Spring: 14.2 mi
- Oliver Spring: 16.4 mi
- Normandin Spring: 16.5 mi
- School District Spring: 21.5 mi
- Giesy Spring: 23.7 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Gee Creek Northbound Rest Area: 17.3 mi
- Gee Creek Southbound Rest Area: 18.3 mi
- French Prairie Rest Area - Southbound: 20.5 mi
- French Prairie Rest Area - Northbound: 20.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.8 miles of Learning Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Mountain | NW 322° | 689 m | 19.5 mi |
| Green Mountain | NW 313° | 676 m | 18.2 mi |
| Buck Mountain | NNW 332° | 649 m | 16.8 mi |
| Bunker Hill | NNW 337° | 634 m | 22.0 mi |
| Tater Hill | NNW 330° | 618 m | 18.5 mi |
| Hoffman Hill | NW 312° | 614 m | 20.2 mi |
| Rye Hill | NW 325° | 566 m | 14.7 mi |
| Gales Peak | W 264° | 548 m | 17.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:45 | 19:24 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 20:19 | 21:05 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:32 | 19:11 |
| December solstice | 07:50 | 15:41 | 16:31 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 47 | 50 | 54 | 60 | 63 | 69 | 69 | 64 | 56 | 49 | 44 |
| Precip in | 5.5 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 3.9 | 5.9 | 6.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nature Park-beaverton, 5 mi away.
- Dark-eyed Junco252 obs
- Mallard247 obs
- House Finch150 obs
- Anna's Hummingbird148 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird138 obs
- Oregon grape113 obs
- Green-winged Teal109 obs
- Mule Deer106 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/264856776
Day trips start here
- Aloha · 5 mi
- Beaverton · 6 mi
- Hillsboro · 7 mi
- Portland (Oregon)/Northwest · 9 mi
- Portland (Oregon)/Southwest · 9 mi
- Tigard · 10 mi
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