Riverside Gardens
Riverside Gardens is a garden in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 244 m. Chimney Rock stands 258 m to the east-southeast, 5.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Monticello City Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Great River Road passes 30 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 244 m
How to reach it
- 30.1 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 7.6 mi off the Delaware Crossing Scenic Byway
- 10.4 mi off the Grant Wood Scenic Byway
- 23.1 mi off the Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Monticello City Park: 0.1 mi
- Jacobs Park: 0.7 mi
- Y Park: 0.9 mi
- Poolside Park: 7.6 mi
- Dunlap Park: 7.7 mi
- Indian Bluffs Wildelife Management Area: 5.8 mi
- Hard Scrabble County Park: 7.1 mi
- Eby's Mill Wildelife Area: 7.8 mi
- Ringneck Ridge Wildlife Management Area: 10.1 mi
- Brayton Memorial Forest: 10.7 mi
- Delaware County Historical Museum Complex: 7.8 mi
- Tri-County Historical Society Red Faber Museum: 9.2 mi
- National Motorcycle Museum: 10.3 mi
- Anamosa State Penitentiary Museum: 10.5 mi
- Wyoming Historical Museum: 15.5 mi
- Boxcar: 9.2 mi
- M101: 9.9 mi
- Manchester Fish Hatchery: 18.7 mi
- Field of Dreams: 18.9 mi
- Chimney Rock: 5.4 mi
- Goose Rock: 16.9 mi
- Hartwick: 14.9 mi
- Ohnward Butterfly Garden: 17.6 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 21.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Riverside Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chimney Rock | ESE 106° | 258 m | 5.4 mi |
| Goose Rock | ESE 112° | 214 m | 16.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:40 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 20:03 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:53 | 18:27 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 15:51 | 16:36 |
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 | 36 | 48 | 60 | 70 | 73 | 71 | 63 | 50 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 6.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cascade, 10 mi away.
- Red-tailed Hawk6 obs
- Rough-legged Hawk3 obs
- White-tailed Deer3 obs
- Small White3 obs
- common motherwort3 obs
- American Kestrel2 obs
- Smallmouth Bass2 obs
- Green Heron1 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/354385011
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