Rain garden
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Rain garden is a garden in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 301 m. Blue Mounds stands 524 m to the west, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Bison Prairie Gateway, a park 0.1 miles away. Lower Wisconsin River Road Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off. 22 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Friends of Lake Wingra
How to reach it
- 18.2 mi off the Lower Wisconsin River Road Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Bison Prairie Gateway: 0.1 mi
- Odana Hills East Park: 0.2 mi
- Hiawatha Circle Park: 0.3 mi
- Zook Park: 0.3 mi
- Oak Park Heights Park: 0.4 mi
- Bison Prairie Gateway Bisons: 0.1 mi
- Allied Community Obelisk: 1.1 mi
- Community: 1.3 mi
- Hoyt Park Pyramid: 1.7 mi
- Visible Bucky: 2.2 mi
- Old Spring Hotel: 0.9 mi
- Kenneth Jensen Wheeler Council Ring: 1.3 mi
- Richard Askey: 1.4 mi
- William Gardner Harley: 1.5 mi
- George Hambrecht: 1.5 mi
- Magnolia & Lilac: 1.2 mi
- Crabapple: 1.2 mi
- Birch: 1.2 mi
- Hawthorn: 1.2 mi
- Honeylocust: 1.2 mi
- University of Wisconsin Arboretum - Grady Tract: 1.3 mi
- Dunn's Marsh Natural Area: 1.5 mi
- Harlan Hills Prairie: 1.7 mi
- Dawley Conservancy Park: 1.7 mi
- Edgewood Forest: 1.8 mi
- UW Geology Museum: 3.0 mi
- University of Wisconsin Space Place: 3.0 mi
- L.R. Ingersoll Physics Museum: 3.1 mi
- Chazen Museum of Art: 3.4 mi
- Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: 3.8 mi
- Circle Bench: 2.0 mi
- Vilas Park Beach: 2.3 mi
- Spring Harbor Beach: 2.6 mi
- Willow Beach: 2.9 mi
- Bernie's Beach: 3.4 mi
- Blackhawk Hill: 2.3 mi
- Eagle Heights: 2.8 mi
- Observatory Hill: 3.1 mi
- Bascom Hill: 3.2 mi
- Frederick's Hill: 5.6 mi
- Ho Nee Um Spring: 1.2 mi
- Council Spring: 1.3 mi
- Big Spring: 1.3 mi
- Merrill Spring: 2.5 mi
- Springs: 5.4 mi
- Fox Bluff: 4.4 mi
- Maple Bluff: 5.9 mi
- Table Bluff: 13.0 mi
- Pinnacle Bluff: 22.1 mi
- Ferry Bluff: 22.6 mi
- Picnic Table and Gazebo: 2.5 mi
- Tribal Council Picnic: 6.2 mi
- Williams Knoll: 12.7 mi
- MacKenzie Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
- Cascade Aerator: 4.4 mi
- Train Car: 6.5 mi
- Fellows: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rain garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mounds | W 266° | 524 m | 20.1 mi |
| Indian Castle | W 276° | 354 m | 22.6 mi |
| Sugarloaf Hill | NW 325° | 346 m | 20.8 mi |
| Liberty Pole Hill | S 171° | 338 m | 15.2 mi |
| Pine Knob | W 280° | 327 m | 22.9 mi |
| Liberty Mound | E 98° | 326 m | 14.9 mi |
| Frederick's Hill | NNW 344° | 317 m | 5.6 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | SW 223° | 316 m | 14.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:33 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:58 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 15:40 | 16:27 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 23 | 34 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 62 | 50 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — UW Arboretum - Madison, 1 mi away.
- Wild Turkey603 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee378 obs
- prairie trillium321 obs
- wild geranium259 obs
- white snakeroot258 obs
- common milkweed250 obs
- bloodroot245 obs
- wild bergamot237 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.
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