Rooftop Garden
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Rooftop Garden is a garden in South Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 442 m. Orphanage Hill stands 484 m to the north, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Indoor Gardens, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Highway 75- King of Trails Scenic Byway passes 25 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 25.0 mi off the Highway 75- King of Trails Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Tower · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- McKennan Park: 0.5 mi
- River Boulevard Greenway: 0.5 mi
- Cherry Rock Park: 0.6 mi
- Riverdale Park: 0.6 mi
- Rotary Park: 0.8 mi
- Hope Stones: 0.0 mi
- Leuning Sculpture: 0.0 mi
- Stained Glass: 0.0 mi
- Digital Art Wall: 0.0 mi
- Statue of David Replica: 1.0 mi
- Washington Pavillion of Arts & Science: 1.1 mi
- Old Courthouse Museum: 1.5 mi
- Pettigrew Home & Museum: 1.6 mi
- Museum of Visual Materials: 1.6 mi
- Stockyards Ag Experience Barn Art Museum: 1.9 mi
- Radio Station KSOO: 1.1 mi
- Old Yankton Trail Stone Marker: 1.3 mi
- 9/11 Steel Girder: 1.3 mi
- The Dubuque House Historical Marker: 1.9 mi
- USS South Dakota Battleship Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Roeman-Stetrichs Wildlife Management Area: 12.4 mi
- Klondike River Access: 14.0 mi
- Springwater Wildlife Management Area: 19.5 mi
- Blankespoon Wildlife Area: 20.4 mi
- Fairview Wildlife Complex: 22.5 mi
- Mount Bigsiouxvius: 6.4 mi
- Canton Mounds: 16.4 mi
- Orphanage Hill: 20.5 mi
- Trent Mounds: 24.1 mi
- W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds (Sioux Empire Fair): 3.2 mi
- Corn Maze: 9.1 mi
- King & Queen Rock: 14.3 mi
- Indoor Gardens: 0.0 mi
- Sunken Garden: 0.5 mi
- Upper Sioux Falls: 1.7 mi
- Middle Sioux Falls: 1.8 mi
- Corn Feeding Area: 4.9 mi
- Family Park: 5.6 mi
- The Palisades: 14.5 mi
- Dells of the Sioux River: 19.2 mi
- Lake Alvin Beach: 8.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rooftop Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orphanage Hill | N 359° | 484 m | 20.5 mi |
| Trent Mounds | N 7° | 455 m | 24.1 mi |
| Mount Bigsiouxvius | NE 55° | 432 m | 6.4 mi |
| Canton Mounds | SSE 150° | 430 m | 16.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:02 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 20:28 | 21:12 |
| September equinox | 07:15 | 18:48 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:58 | 16:07 | 16:54 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 18 | 22 | 35 | 47 | 59 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 50 | 35 | 23 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sioux Falls, 4 mi away.
- Mallard79 obs
- Canada Goose56 obs
- Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel56 obs
- purple loosestrife40 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel37 obs
- American Robin34 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee33 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee28 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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