Skip to content
Byway
Garden · New York

Memorial Park Butterfly Garden

Memorial Park Butterfly Garden from directly overhead

Memorial Park Butterfly Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Breakneck Mountain stands 384 m to the northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Nyack Memorial Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 4.8 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Permitted
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.08741, -73.91596

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Nyack Memorial Park: 0.0 mi
  • Franklin Street Park: 0.3 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
  • Schuyler Town Park: 1.3 mi
  • Blauvelt State Park: 1.5 mi
Artworks
  • Tappan Zee: 0.4 mi
  • Approach: 0.5 mi
  • The Flux of Being: 0.7 mi
  • Leaping Sturgeon: 0.9 mi
  • Untitled, for Imre Lendvai: 3.0 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Peaks
Attractions
Museums
Gardens
  • Peabody Monarch Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Rose Garden: 3.4 mi
  • Dooryard Garden: 4.6 mi
  • Ossining Organic Community Garden: 7.9 mi
  • Walled Garden: 8.4 mi
Cliffs
  • Raven's Rock: 5.2 mi
  • Palisades: 8.2 mi
  • Scenic Overlook: 9.1 mi
  • The Palisades: 9.5 mi
  • Pulpit: 13.2 mi
Beaches
Picnic sites: 19
  • Excelsior Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
  • Alpine picnic area: 9.7 mi
  • Kakiat Park: 11.1 mi
  • Area B: 13.4 mi
  • Area C: 13.5 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • The Falls: 14.3 mi
  • MacMillan Brook Falls: 14.6 mi
  • Farms Falls: 15.9 mi
  • Bridal Veil Falls: 17.2 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 17.7 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 4
  • Vince Lombardi Service Area: 19.2 mi
  • Larry Doby Service Area: 21.9 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 22.8 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 22.8 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 1
  • The Silver Spring: 24.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.5 miles of Memorial Park Butterfly Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Breakneck MountainNW 309°384 m12.3 mi
Jackie Jones MountainNW 319°383 m12.4 mi
Squirrel Swamp MountainNW 306°378 m11.7 mi
Ladentown MountainNW 311°378 m12.0 mi
Big HillNW 316°374 m12.3 mi
Limekiln MountainNW 312°342 m11.2 mi
Panther MountainNW 308°334 m11.2 mi
Horse Chock MountainNW 319°330 m11.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2419:5120:32
September equinox06:4418:1818:55
December solstice07:1815:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313441516170757467554537
Precip in3.93.34.44.34.34.64.54.44.64.43.94.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dobbs Ferry-ardsley, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • wineberry33 obs
  • White-tailed Deer25 obs
  • Black Swallowtail22 obs
  • Mallard21 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly21 obs
  • Japanese knotweed19 obs
  • garlic mustard18 obs
  • Eastern Calligrapher18 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/463516485

More gardens in New York

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 Memorial Park Butterfly 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