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Normandale Japanese Garden

Normandale Japanese Garden from directly overhead

Normandale Japanese Garden is a garden in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 246 m. Norwegian Hill stands 294 m to the north-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Marsh Lake Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Grand Rounds Scenic Byway passes 5.6 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates44.83080, -93.33122

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Marsh Lake Park: 0.4 mi
  • Tarnhill Playground: 0.6 mi
  • Brookside Park: 0.7 mi
  • Tretbaugh Park: 0.8 mi
  • Skriebakken Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
  • 1st Brigade Memorial: 0.5 mi
  • Pinecone: 2.7 mi
  • Northwest Airlines: 2.7 mi
  • Pond/Dakota house: 3.2 mi
  • Cahill Settlement Monument: 3.5 mi
Museums
Attractions
  • The Izaak Walton League of America: 2.6 mi
  • Eden Prairie Outdoor Center: 5.9 mi
  • RipCord: 6.3 mi
  • Delirious: 6.3 mi
  • Steel Venom: 6.3 mi
Nature reserves
Gardens
Artworks
  • Pixel Jared: 5.1 mi
  • Convergence: 5.2 mi
  • Pixel Yeti: 5.2 mi
  • Pixel Jared: 5.2 mi
  • Pixel Jared: 5.2 mi
Beaches: 45
  • Bush Lake Beach: 2.4 mi
  • Bryant Lake Park Swimming Beach: 5.9 mi
  • Lake Harriet Southeast Beach: 6.1 mi
  • Lake Harriet North Beach: 6.9 mi
  • Lake Nokomis Main Beach: 7.1 mi
Picnic sites: 15
  • Woodcrest: 2.0 mi
  • Picnic Point Pavilion: 6.3 mi
  • Picnic Glen: 8.4 mi
  • Wabun G: 8.5 mi
  • Wabun F: 8.5 mi
Cliffs: 6
  • Minnehaha Falls: 8.3 mi
  • West Clay Pit: 12.2 mi
  • Middle Clay Pit: 12.3 mi
  • East Clay Pit: 12.5 mi
  • Sand Castles: 15.2 mi
Peaks: 5
  • Mount Gilboa: 1.9 mi
  • Sky Hill Park Overlook: 6.9 mi
  • Pilot Knob: 8.6 mi
  • Norwegian Hill: 14.1 mi
  • Seminary Hill: 17.9 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Minnehaha Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Shadow Falls: 10.1 mi
  • Hamm’s Memorial Waterfalls: 13.9 mi
  • Phalen Regional Park Waterfall: 17.4 mi
Springs: 4
  • Boiling Springs: 5.3 mi
  • Coldwater Spring: 8.1 mi
  • Hajduk Spring: 10.4 mi
  • White Worm Springs: 17.0 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Norwegian HillNNE 18°293.522 m14.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1718:4719:26
June solstice05:2820:1921:04
September equinox07:0118:3419:13
December solstice07:4915:4716:36

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F162133476070747264503522
Precip in0.90.91.72.93.94.64.14.33.02.61.61.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Minneapolis-st Paul Intl AP, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard114 obs
  • Canada Goose87 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee66 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird60 obs
  • Wood Duck58 obs
  • American Robin57 obs
  • Ring-necked Duck47 obs
  • Northern Cardinal46 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/244289379

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