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Model Native Garden

Model Native Garden from directly overhead

Model Native Garden is a garden in Kentucky, at a modelled elevation of 252 m. Rumpke Mountain stands 319 m to the north-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Fort Thomas Military Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Riverboat Row Scenic Byway passes 3.4 miles off. 28 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Fort Thomas Forest Conservancy
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.06675, -84.44446

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Historic sites
Parks
  • Highland Heights Veterans Park: 1.1 mi
  • Highland Hills Park: 1.3 mi
  • Riddleview Park: 1.7 mi
  • Riggs Memorial Park: 1.8 mi
  • Rossford Park: 2.3 mi
Attractions
Gardens: 59
Museums: 51
  • Fort Thomas Military Museum: 0.0 mi
  • Cincinnati Aviation Heritage Society Museum: 2.7 mi
  • Irish Heritage Center of Cincinnati: 3.0 mi
  • Newport History Museum: 3.3 mi
  • Tharp Dayton Heritage Museum: 3.5 mi
Nature reserves: 44
Picnic sites: 29
  • Lower Picnic Area: 3.3 mi
  • Monarch Meadow: 6.5 mi
  • Badger Bluff: 6.6 mi
  • Area 23: 9.3 mi
  • Area 22, Furnas Hill: 9.4 mi
Peaks: 28
  • Johns Hill: 2.9 mi
  • Mount Tusculum: 3.2 mi
  • Mount Adams: 4.1 mi
  • Goat Hill: 4.6 mi
  • Orchard Hill: 5.1 mi
Rest areas: 3
Waterfalls: 2
  • Lower Buckeye Falls: 14.9 mi
  • Buckeye Falls: 14.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Beaches: 1
  • Hidden Valley Lake Beach: 22.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rumpke MountainNNW 331°319 m16.6 mi
Orchard HillWSW 249°268 m5.1 mi
Pleasant HillSSE 160°267 m21.5 mi
Galley HillENE 66°265 m14.4 mi
Jackson RidgeWNW 292°259 m24.2 mi
Brighton HillNW 314°257 m5.5 mi
Pye HillSSW 194°256 m6.8 mi
Mount EchoWNW 287°254 m6.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4219:1519:50
June solstice06:1320:2821:08
September equinox07:2619:0119:37
December solstice07:5416:3717:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323544556472767568564536
Precip in2.92.83.94.44.74.64.43.43.13.12.93.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cincinnati Muni AP Lunken FLD, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • toadshade153 obs
  • Dutchman's breeches139 obs
  • Virginia Springbeauty139 obs
  • blue phlox133 obs
  • drooping trillium124 obs
  • Celandine Poppy123 obs
  • mayapple107 obs
  • cut-leaved toothwort101 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/965087277

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