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Miss Pitty Pat's Garden of Hope and Butterfly Garden

Miss Pitty Pat's Garden of Hope and Butterfly Garden from directly overhead

Miss Pitty Pat's Garden of Hope and Butterfly Garden is a garden in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 22 m. Mount Everest stands 60 m to the west-northwest, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Horton Hears a Who, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. THE RIDGE HWY passes 16 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates28.28935, -81.45820

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Horton Hears a Who: 0.0 mi
  • Granite Gator: 3.3 mi
  • Horse: 3.3 mi
  • frog: 4.4 mi
  • frog: 4.4 mi
Parks
  • Oren Brown Park: 1.5 mi
  • Ladue Park: 1.8 mi
  • Kissimmee Lakefront Park: 3.2 mi
  • Storey Lake Neighborhood Park: 3.6 mi
  • Brinson Park: 3.8 mi
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • Capone's Dinner & Show: 2.5 mi
  • Fishing Pier: 3.3 mi
  • Dare 2 Escape: 3.5 mi
  • International Heli-Tours South: 3.5 mi
  • Mine Blower: 4.4 mi
Historic sites: 29
Museums: 25
Gardens: 19
  • Tropical Garden east: 5.2 mi
  • Tropical Garden west: 5.2 mi
  • The Potato Heads: 6.6 mi
  • Garden Railroad: 7.7 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 7.8 mi
Peaks: 9
  • Mount Mayday: 6.9 mi
  • Dick Island: 7.1 mi
  • Mount Gushmore: 8.4 mi
  • Hillard Island: 9.0 mi
  • Mount Everest: 9.1 mi
Beaches: 7
  • Getaway Glen: 6.8 mi
  • Hideaway Bay: 6.8 mi
  • South Beach: 9.1 mi
  • Conrad Beach: 9.2 mi
  • The Sandbox: 9.3 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Silver Creek Falls: 10.8 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Area: 20.8 mi
Springs: 1
  • Apopka Spring: 23.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Miss Pitty Pat's Garden of Hope and Butterfly Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount EverestWNW 301°60 m9.1 mi
Mount GushmoreWNW 301°57 m8.4 mi
Rattlesnake RidgeW 278°37 m22.2 mi
Horseshoe Creek HillSW 214°32 m10.8 mi
Big Thunder MountainNW 320°32 m11.9 mi
Mount MaydayNW 320°29 m6.9 mi
Hillard IslandENE 75°23.7 m9.0 mi
Dick IslandESE 117°19.8 m7.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3119:0719:38
June solstice06:3019:5220:27
September equinox07:1518:5319:24
December solstice07:1417:0017:35

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F606366717781838381756863
Precip in2.72.43.12.44.29.27.28.45.93.12.02.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kissimmee 2, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Brown Anole123 obs
  • Muscovy Duck44 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel43 obs
  • Cuban Tree Frog31 obs
  • White Ibis28 obs
  • Anhinga27 obs
  • White Peacock27 obs
  • Christmas lichen24 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/1395766789

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