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Pacific Bonsai Museum

Pacific Bonsai Museum from directly overhead

Pacific Bonsai Museum is a garden in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 125 m. Enumclaw Mountain stands 849 m to the east, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. POINT DEFINANCE TO TAHLEQUAH passes 9.9 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates47.29390, -122.30202

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
  • Cedar Grove Park: 0.7 mi
  • Lake Killarney Park: 0.7 mi
  • Lake Killarney Boat Launch: 0.8 mi
  • Lake Geneva Boat Launch: 0.8 mi
  • North Lake Boat Launch: 1.1 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Riptide: 1.4 mi
  • Midway Games: 1.4 mi
  • Zooma Falls: 1.4 mi
  • Konga Slides: 1.5 mi
  • Clock Tower Bell: 1.9 mi
Historic sites
  • The Little League Pledge: 1.5 mi
  • 9/11 Memorial: 1.6 mi
  • Honoring Gold Star Families: 1.7 mi
  • Panther Lake Trail: 1.8 mi
  • Garden of Memories: 2.1 mi
Nature reserves
Museums
  • Heritage Center of Federal Way: 1.9 mi
  • White River Valley Museum: 3.9 mi
  • Fife History Museum: 5.0 mi
  • Browns Point Historical Society: 6.7 mi
  • Neely-Soames Historic Homestead: 6.7 mi
Peaks
  • Indian Hill: 5.2 mi
  • Gravel Pit Peak: 8.3 mi
  • Indian Point: 10.4 mi
  • Kinbee Hill: 13.2 mi
  • Echo Mountain: 13.9 mi
Beaches: 49
  • Dash Point State Park Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Sex Cove: 6.0 mi
  • Salmon Beach: 10.6 mi
  • Owen Beach: 10.6 mi
  • Crow Beach: 10.7 mi
Picnic sites: 38
  • Picnic Area: 1.4 mi
  • Picnic Site #4: 2.1 mi
  • Picnic Site #3: 2.1 mi
  • Picnic Site #2: 2.1 mi
  • Woodmont Country Club: 4.7 mi
Ghost towns: 12
Lighthouses: 11
Cliffs: 9
Waterfalls: 7
  • Victor Falls: 11.4 mi
  • Far Country Falls: 17.7 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 18.1 mi
  • Coal Creek Falls: 18.2 mi
  • North Fork Falls: 18.6 mi
Springs: 4
  • Maplewood Spring: 8.3 mi
  • Duryea Roadside Hidden Spring: 13.4 mi
  • Garrison Springs: 14.9 mi
  • Ellison Spring: 17.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.1 miles of Pacific Bonsai Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Enumclaw MountainE 99°849 m19.2 mi
South Tiger Mountain North SummitNE 54°629 m19.7 mi
South Tiger MountainNE 54°619 m19.6 mi
Squak Mountain Central PeakNE 39°618 m18.8 mi
Squak Mountain West PeakNE 38°608 m18.5 mi
Radio HillESE 111°589 m20.1 mi
Spar Pole HillSSE 156°581 m18.6 mi
Poo Poo PointNE 44°564 m19.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4219:22
June solstice05:1420:2221:10
September equinox06:5718:2819:09
December solstice07:5415:3016:22

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434447525862676762544742
Precip in6.04.04.43.42.01.40.60.81.64.16.56.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tacoma #1, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Northwestern Salamander91 obs
  • Western Lily of the Valley55 obs
  • Salmonberry48 obs
  • western skunk cabbage41 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog39 obs
  • common jewelweed39 obs
  • Pacific Banana Slug38 obs
  • American Robin36 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.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/748944876

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