Rose Garden
Rose Garden is a garden in Colorado, at a modelled elevation of 1,445 m. Indian Point stands 3,046 m to the southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Life's Teeter Totter, a artwork 0.2 miles away. Grand Mesa passes 6.1 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Permitted
How to reach it
- 6.1 mi off the Grand Mesa, National
- 11.9 mi off the Dinosaur Diamond, National
Overlooks nearby
- Land of Lakes Overlook · 19 mi
- Window Rock · 20 mi
- Book Cliffs View · 20 mi
- Otto's Trail · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Peach Bowl Park: 0.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
- River Bend Park: 0.9 mi
- Horse Mountain Open OHV Area: 5.2 mi
- Rocky Mountain Elementary Park: 5.7 mi
- East Orchard Mesa: 1.4 mi
- Mount Lincoln: 1.7 mi
- Horse Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Mount Garfield: 3.1 mi
- Long Mesa: 7.0 mi
- Life's Teeter Totter: 0.2 mi
- Harley: 0.2 mi
- Day on the Serengeti: 0.2 mi
- Maverick: 10.9 mi
- Play Ball: 10.9 mi
- Bookcliffs Lemon Squeezer: 2.0 mi
- Bailey Point: 3.6 mi
- Palisade Point: 6.7 mi
- Fleming Point: 9.6 mi
- Corcoran Point: 12.2 mi
- Blue Angels: 9.3 mi
- Rocket Park: 9.8 mi
- Crossing of the Grand: 10.3 mi
- Last of the Wild Bunch: 10.9 mi
- In memory of children who left us too soon.: 11.6 mi
- unknown pond feature: 2.5 mi
- End Spring: 19.1 mi
- Notch Spring: 19.6 mi
- Corduroy Spring: 19.8 mi
- Thrailkill Spring: 20.4 mi
- Roofed picnic area: 0.4 mi
- Wild Rose Picnic Ground: 9.5 mi
- Paradise Valley Park Picnic Gazebo: 12.3 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 15.9 mi
- Book Cliffs Picnic Site: 20.0 mi
- Lands End Observatory: 9.2 mi
- Devil's Kitchen: 16.2 mi
- Tabeguache Trail Play Area: 16.5 mi
- Liberty Cap: 17.2 mi
- Mica mine: 17.5 mi
- Tillman Bishop State Wildlife Area: 1.0 mi
- Clifton Nature Park: 6.3 mi
- West Lake State Wildlife Area: 12.2 mi
- Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area: 24.9 mi
- Cross Orchards Historic Site: 7.0 mi
- Eureka! McConnell Science Museum: 11.2 mi
- Museum of the West: 11.7 mi
- Dinosaur Journey: 20.8 mi
- Main Street Community Garden: 11.2 mi
- Mesa County Libraries Discovery Garden: 11.6 mi
- Butterfly House: 11.7 mi
- Carpenter: 8.5 mi
- Dominguez Falls: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Rose Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Point | SE 145° | 3,046 m | 16.5 mi |
| Nick Mountain | E 87° | 2,699 m | 18.5 mi |
| Castle Peak | NE 52° | 2,527 m | 17.8 mi |
| Chalk Mountain | E 80° | 2,466 m | 7.8 mi |
| Corcoran Peak | NNW 329° | 2,449 m | 16.0 mi |
| Reeder Mesa | SE 139° | 2,443 m | 8.0 mi |
| Horsethief Mountain | NE 46° | 2,390 m | 16.5 mi |
| Twin Peaks | N 2° | 2,263 m | 16.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:50 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 20:03 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:37 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 16:12 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 37 | 47 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 79 | 76 | 68 | 55 | 42 | 31 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palisade, under a mile away.
- Woodhouse's Toad16 obs
- Russian olive10 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider9 obs
- Plateau Striped Whiptail8 obs
- Eastern Collared Lizard6 obs
- Alfalfa6 obs
- Hunt's Bumble Bee6 obs
- field bindweed5 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 way/288698181
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