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Memphis Botanic Garden

Memphis Botanic Garden from directly overhead

Memphis Botanic Garden is a garden in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 96 m. The nearest named place is Audubon Park, a nature reserve 0.1 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 163 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.11078, -89.91343

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Cancer Survivor Park: 0.3 mi
  • Pep Marquette Park: 1.0 mi
  • Sea Isle Park: 1.7 mi
  • Goodwin Park: 1.9 mi
  • Sunshine Park: 1.9 mi
Attractions
  • Memphis Pink Palace Museum: 2.8 mi
  • Tiger Lane: 3.8 mi
  • Liberty Park: 3.9 mi
  • Bell: 4.4 mi
  • Man & Guitar Statue: 4.4 mi
Historic sites
  • Spanish War Memorial: 4.2 mi
  • L.B. McFarland Memorial Campanile: 5.1 mi
  • Sophie G. Freidman Memorial: 5.1 mi
  • Lilian May Elizabeth Nelson Byrd Memorial (DAR): 5.1 mi
  • Ted Rust: 5.1 mi
Beaches: 21
  • West Junction shore: 9.7 mi
  • West Snake Beach: 9.7 mi
  • West Potato Beach: 9.9 mi
  • West Houston shore beach: 10.0 mi
  • East Houston shore beach: 10.5 mi
Artworks: 13
  • Ramesses the Great Statue: 1.6 mi
  • Crystal Shrine Grotto: 2.2 mi
  • The Ring of Peace: 3.4 mi
  • sundial: 3.5 mi
  • E. H. Crump Statue: 5.1 mi
Nature reserves: 7
Gardens: 6
  • Dixon Gardens: 0.4 mi
  • Emeriti Grove: 1.5 mi
  • Clara Conway Memorial Gardens: 5.2 mi
  • Fisher Memorial Garden: 5.2 mi
  • Meditation Garden: 7.7 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Tennessee Welcome Center: 7.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Picnic sites: 1
  • Memphis Propbuster's Field: 15.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0418:3819:12
June solstice05:4719:4020:18
September equinox06:4818:2518:58
December solstice07:0516:1316:52

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424654637280838276655345
Precip in4.14.55.75.95.34.04.83.43.04.04.75.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Memphis Intl AP, 6 mi away.

  • Gulf Fritillary44 obs
  • American Robin39 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle33 obs
  • Monarch32 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee29 obs
  • Pipevine Swallowtail26 obs
  • Canada Goose25 obs
  • Black Swallowtail25 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/105241591

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