Penn Hills Community Garden
Penn Hills Community Garden is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 334 m. Pollocks Knob stands 407 m to the south-southwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Cottonwood-Sunnyfield Park, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away. Grand View Scenic Byway passes 10 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Penn Hills Communidty Development Corporation
How to reach it
- 10.4 mi off the Grand View Scenic Byway
- 28.0 mi off the Historic National Road - Pennsylvania, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Cottonwood-Sunnyfield Park: 0.5 mi
- Glenwood Park: 0.9 mi
- Evergreen Park: 1.7 mi
- Churchill Valley Greenway: 2.2 mi
- Pioneer Park: 2.2 mi
- Eastmont Park: 1.0 mi
- Duff Park: 1.6 mi
- Evergreen Park: 1.6 mi
- Bullock-Pens Park: 1.6 mi
- Universal Memorial Park: 1.8 mi
- Gascola slag dump summit: 1.2 mi
- Mt. Sycamore: 4.1 mi
- Cowboy Hill: 5.1 mi
- Clayton Hill: 5.4 mi
- 1220: 5.5 mi
- Vietnam War memorial for former GHS students: 2.8 mi
- Pioneer Short-Wave Station: 2.9 mi
- Blawknox Veterans Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Carrie Blast Furnace Number 6 and 7: 5.2 mi
- George Washington Statue: 5.3 mi
- Freedom and Liberation Wall: 5.0 mi
- T-Rex Statue: 6.1 mi
- Breath: 6.2 mi
- Griffins: 6.6 mi
- Griffins: 6.7 mi
- Penn Hills Entrance Garden: Rodi Road: 1.4 mi
- Dornbush Rain Garden: 4.1 mi
- A Second Chance Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Braddock Farms: 4.7 mi
- Swissvale Community Pollinator Garden: 4.7 mi
- Bloop Museum: 1.9 mi
- Kerr Museum: 5.2 mi
- Clayton Mansion: 5.2 mi
- The Frick Pittsburgh: 5.2 mi
- Car & Carraige Museum: 5.2 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 5.7 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 5.8 mi
- Picnic Area: 6.8 mi
- Picnic Place at the Schenley Plaza: 7.9 mi
- Upper Orchard: 11.9 mi
- Westinghouse Atom Smasher: 3.4 mi
- Pittsburgh Yarn Company: 4.7 mi
- Heinz Memorial Chapel: 7.9 mi
- Stephen Foster Memorial: 7.9 mi
- Cathedral of Learning: 7.9 mi
- Thornburg Beach: 14.5 mi
- Tiger Beach: 15.0 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 18.1 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 18.1 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Right Side: 18.1 mi
- Hay's Wall: 8.5 mi
- Fossils Cliff: 18.5 mi
- Thompson Run Falls: 5.5 mi
- Francis Spring: 7.6 mi
- Livermore: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.1 miles of Penn Hills Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollocks Knob | SSW 210° | 407 m | 15.6 mi |
| Herron Hill | W 273° | 384 m | 8.2 mi |
| Rich Hill | NNW 348° | 365 m | 9.5 mi |
| Mt. Sycamore | NW 317° | 229.2 m | 4.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:55 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:13 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 16:13 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 31 | 40 | 51 | 63 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Murrysville 2 SW, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly48 obs
- White-tailed Deer20 obs
- dame's rocket19 obs
- ground-ivy17 obs
- Monarch16 obs
- Silver-spotted Skipper16 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle15 obs
- late boneset15 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/787551554
Day trips start here
- Irwin · 10 mi
- Green Tree · 13 mi
- Ross Township · 13 mi
- Mt. Lebanon · 14 mi
- Greensburg · 17 mi
- Robinson Township · 17 mi
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