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Niños Community Garden

Niños Community Garden from directly overhead

Niños Community Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Flagstaff Hill stands 432 m to the east-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Niños Park, a park 0.1 miles away. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Sacramento
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.60993, -121.48226
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks: 50
Museums: 43
Historic sites: 42
Attractions: 41
  • Sutter Health Park: 2.6 mi
  • The Little Engine That Could: 4.9 mi
  • Cinderella's Coach: 4.9 mi
  • Jack and the Beanstalk: 4.9 mi
  • Peter Rabbit and his Sisters: 4.9 mi
Gardens: 31
  • International Garden of Many Colors: 0.1 mi
  • Strauch Community Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Natomas Rose Garden: 1.1 mi
  • Community Garden: 1.7 mi
  • New Era Community Garden: 2.0 mi
Nature reserves: 22
  • Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area: 8.0 mi
  • Roseville Reserve: 12.1 mi
  • Laurel Canyon Preserve: 12.9 mi
  • Mahany Nature Reserve: 13.2 mi
  • Coyote Creek Preserve: 13.4 mi
Peaks: 15
  • Whisky Hill: 4.8 mi
  • Col du Pennsylvania: 11.4 mi
  • Barney Mound: 13.1 mi
  • Horse Shoe Hill: 15.8 mi
  • Blisk Peak: 16.4 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • Pooh Corner: 4.9 mi
  • Birthday Area 3: 5.1 mi
  • Birthday Area 2: 5.1 mi
  • Birthday Area 1: 5.1 mi
  • Group community site: 8.2 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Beaches: 5
  • Horse Shoe Hill Shore: 15.9 mi
  • Moot Rock Beach: 16.0 mi
  • Laurel Beach: 16.1 mi
  • Beer Can Beach: 20.2 mi
  • Turrtle Bend: 22.6 mi
Cliffs: 3
Waterfalls: 3
  • Leete Falls: 17.4 mi
  • Antelope Creek Falla: 19.1 mi
  • Pecker Falls: 23.7 mi
Springs: 2
  • Huff Mineral Spring: 18.1 mi
  • Wetland Preserve: 19.3 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Flagstaff HillENE 63°432 m24.1 mi
Shirttail PeakENE 59°363 m24.6 mi
Iron MountainENE 68°269 m23.6 mi
Carpenter HillE 82°253 m20.8 mi
SugarloafNE 50°218 m23.3 mi
Volcano HillENE 63°129 m17.2 mi
Thunder hillNE 43°129 m18.9 mi
Horse Shoe HillENE 78°127.6 m15.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1018:4319:18
June solstice05:4219:5520:34
September equinox06:5418:3019:05
December solstice07:2116:0716:49

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495357616874787774665549
Precip in3.93.62.81.40.90.20.00.00.10.91.83.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sacramento 5 ESE, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Yellow-billed Magpie164 obs
  • Canada Goose77 obs
  • Yellow Fever Mosquito76 obs
  • Wild Turkey71 obs
  • valley oak71 obs
  • Indian Peafowl57 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel51 obs
  • blue elder50 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/1481632387

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