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Life Community Garden

Life Community Garden from directly overhead

Life Community Garden is a garden in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 66 m. South Saddle Mountain stands 1,048 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Butternut Creek Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Vineyard and Valley passes 3.9 miles off. 60 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Life Church
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates45.47845, -122.89537
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Butternut Creek Park: 0.3 mi
  • Arbor Vineyards Park: 0.3 mi
  • Cross Creek South Greenway: 0.5 mi
  • Cross Creek Park: 0.5 mi
  • Cross Creek South Park: 0.6 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Artworks
Gardens
  • Rhododendron Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Rose Pergola: 1.2 mi
  • Herb Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Learning Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Deer Resistant Garden: 1.3 mi
Peaks: 60
Attractions: 60
Museums: 49
Picnic sites: 19
  • The Love Garden Farm Stand: 5.8 mi
  • Picnic Shelter: 8.5 mi
  • Stonesthrow Picnic and BBQ Area: 9.9 mi
  • Shelter A: 12.4 mi
  • Picnic Area A: 13.2 mi
Waterfalls: 13
  • Cedar Mill Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Jackson Falls: 10.2 mi
  • Jane Martin Waterfall: 12.6 mi
  • Willamette Falls: 16.0 mi
  • Singer Falls: 16.3 mi
Beaches: 12
  • Lindbergh’s Beach: 10.8 mi
  • Poet's Beach: 11.0 mi
  • North Beach: 14.7 mi
  • Surprise Beach: 15.0 mi
  • Lieser Point: 17.5 mi
Cliffs: 7
  • Waud Bluff: 10.3 mi
  • Phantom Bluff: 10.7 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 16.7 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 16.8 mi
  • Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 16.8 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Springs: 4
  • Oliver Spring: 10.2 mi
  • Normandin Spring: 16.6 mi
  • Fern Spring: 17.8 mi
  • Giesy Spring: 18.2 mi
Rest areas: 4
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South Saddle MountainWNW 282°1,048 m23.7 mi
Long MountainNNW 334°689 m23.7 mi
Green MountainNNW 328°676 m21.7 mi
Buck MountainNNW 343°649 m21.7 mi
Kutch MountainWSW 247°626 m24.7 mi
Tuttle PointW 274°623 m21.4 mi
Tater HillNNW 341°618 m23.3 mi
Hoffman HillNW 326°614 m23.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4519:24
June solstice05:2420:1921:05
September equinox06:5918:3219:11
December solstice07:4915:4216:32

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F454750546063696964564944
Precip in5.54.34.13.02.21.70.50.51.43.95.96.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Nature Park-beaverton, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Crow80 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco61 obs
  • American Robin45 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel38 obs
  • Black-capped Chickadee38 obs
  • Bushtit32 obs
  • European Starling32 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird31 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 way/1082595881

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