Penn Hills Entrance Garden: Rodi Road
Penn Hills Entrance Garden: Rodi Road is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 306 m. Pollocks Knob stands 407 m to the south-southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Bullock-Pens Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Grand View Scenic Byway passes 9.0 miles off.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 9.0 mi off the Grand View Scenic Byway
- 27.1 mi off the Historic National Road - Pennsylvania, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Bullock-Pens Park: 0.3 mi
- Pat Seneca Park: 0.7 mi
- Duff Park: 0.9 mi
- Eastmont Park: 0.9 mi
- Blackridge Park: 1.1 mi
- Churchill Valley Greenway: 0.9 mi
- Cottonwood-Sunnyfield Park: 1.8 mi
- Glenwood Park: 2.2 mi
- Pioneer Park: 2.7 mi
- Evergreen Park: 3.0 mi
- Pioneer Short-Wave Station: 2.0 mi
- Blawknox Veterans Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Carrie Blast Furnace Number 6 and 7: 4.0 mi
- Vietnam War memorial for former GHS students: 4.0 mi
- Homestead Works Pump House: 4.3 mi
- Gascola slag dump summit: 2.4 mi
- Mt. Sycamore: 3.5 mi
- Cowboy Hill: 3.8 mi
- Clayton Hill: 4.0 mi
- Riverview Hill: 4.4 mi
- Freedom and Liberation Wall: 3.7 mi
- Breath: 4.9 mi
- T-Rex Statue: 5.1 mi
- Griffins: 5.5 mi
- Captured::Pittsburgh Open Air Photography Gallery: 5.6 mi
- Penn Hills Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Dornbush Rain Garden: 2.8 mi
- A Second Chance Community Garden: 2.8 mi
- Swissvale Community Pollinator Garden: 3.4 mi
- Braddock Farms: 3.7 mi
- Bloop Museum: 1.9 mi
- Clayton Mansion: 3.9 mi
- The Frick Pittsburgh: 3.9 mi
- Car & Carraige Museum: 3.9 mi
- Frick Art and Historical Center: 3.9 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 5.5 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 5.6 mi
- Picnic Place at the Schenley Plaza: 6.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 7.3 mi
- Upper Orchard: 11.4 mi
- Westinghouse Atom Smasher: 2.5 mi
- Pittsburgh Yarn Company: 3.4 mi
- Heinz Memorial Chapel: 6.5 mi
- Stephen Foster Memorial: 6.6 mi
- Cathedral of Learning: 6.6 mi
- Thornburg Beach: 13.1 mi
- Tiger Beach: 13.6 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 17.4 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 17.4 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Right Side: 17.5 mi
- Hay's Wall: 7.2 mi
- Fossils Cliff: 17.1 mi
- Thompson Run Falls: 4.8 mi
- Francis Spring: 7.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.4 miles of Penn Hills Entrance Garden: Rodi Road. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollocks Knob | SSW 206° | 407 m | 14.8 mi |
| Herron Hill | W 276° | 384 m | 6.9 mi |
| Rich Hill | N 356° | 365 m | 9.5 mi |
| Mt. Sycamore | NNW 336° | 229.2 m | 3.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:56 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:13 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 16:13 | 16:57 |
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 | 61 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Braddock Lock 2, 4 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly67 obs
- White-tailed Deer46 obs
- tansy46 obs
- Huron Skipper45 obs
- Zabulon Skipper44 obs
- dame's rocket42 obs
- Monarch40 obs
- Peck's Skipper40 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 node/13743103470
Day trips start here
- Irwin · 10 mi
- Green Tree · 12 mi
- Ross Township · 12 mi
- Mt. Lebanon · 13 mi
- Robinson Township · 16 mi
- Franklin Park · 17 mi
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