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Rock Garden

Rock Garden from directly overhead

Rock Garden is a garden in Indiana, at a modelled elevation of 179 m. Carlisle Hill stands 280 m to the east, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is WWI Monument, a historic site 0.1 miles away. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Byway passes 10 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Built
1936
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates41.72490, -86.90479
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Peaks: 47
  • Bismarck Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Crescent Dune: 1.0 mi
  • Mount Baldy: 1.6 mi
  • Mount McCray: 2.2 mi
  • Mount Jensen: 2.5 mi
Attractions: 34
  • Australian Aviary: 0.2 mi
  • Alligators: 0.2 mi
  • Petting Yard: 0.2 mi
  • Hawks: 0.2 mi
  • Otters: 0.2 mi
Historic sites: 32
  • WWI Monument: 0.1 mi
  • Civil War Monument: 0.1 mi
  • Rawson Memorial Stone Plaque: 0.1 mi
  • Marine Corps Veterans Memorial: 0.2 mi
  • Army Veterans Memorial: 0.2 mi
Beaches: 25
  • Washington Park Beach: 0.3 mi
  • Stop 2 Beach: 0.8 mi
  • Crescent Dune Beach: 1.2 mi
  • Stop 7 Beach: 1.2 mi
  • Mount Baldy Beach: 2.0 mi
Museums: 19
Gardens: 15
Artworks: 10
  • Duet: 0.3 mi
  • Potawatomi Warrior: 12.3 mi
  • La Porte History Mural: 12.3 mi
  • Orville Redenbacher: 19.5 mi
  • Tuskegee Airmen: 19.6 mi
Picnic sites: 6
Lighthouses: 5
Rest areas: 3
  • Indiana Welcome Center: 5.8 mi
  • Michigan Welcome Center 707: 8.9 mi
  • Rest Area Trucks Only: 9.6 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • 1 Foot Falls: 7.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rock Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Carlisle HillE 100°280.4 m21.6 mi
Mount EdwardNE 49°242 m22.0 mi
Mount RandallNE 51°235 m20.5 mi
Tower HillNE 51°233 m20.1 mi
Pikes PeakNE 51°229 m19.9 mi
Mount FullerNE 51°227 m19.7 mi
Great Warren DuneNE 50°225 m21.4 mi
Mount LieberWSW 246°214 m18.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5218:2319:00
June solstice05:1419:4420:26
September equinox06:3618:1018:47
December solstice07:1215:3616:21

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252838485969737265544231
Precip in2.22.02.33.64.34.34.04.13.63.82.82.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indiana Dunes NP, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Ring-billed Gull44 obs
  • common soapwort33 obs
  • Sanderling30 obs
  • common milkweed28 obs
  • Mallard27 obs
  • Red-breasted Merganser23 obs
  • Monarch20 obs
  • sassafras14 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/601162079

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