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Rose Garden

Rose Garden from directly overhead

Rose Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 42 m. Round Hill stands 172 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Suffolk County Vanderbilt Planetarium, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Merritt Parkway passes 16 miles off.

What to expect

Operated by
Centerport Garden Club

How to reach it

Coordinates40.90539, -73.36747

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Parks
  • Centerport Park: 0.5 mi
  • Huntington Beach Community Association: 0.8 mi
  • Northport Park: 0.8 mi
  • Cow Harbor Park: 0.9 mi
  • Heron Park: 1.0 mi
Beaches
Nature reserves
  • Bird Island: 0.8 mi
  • Phragmites Park: 1.3 mi
  • Betty Allen Twin Ponds Nature Park: 1.5 mi
  • Grace Nature Preserve: 1.7 mi
  • Henry Ingraham Nature Preserve: 1.8 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
Gardens
  • Rose Garden: 5.4 mi
  • Walled Garden: 5.5 mi
  • Crucifix Garden: 5.5 mi
  • Organic Demonstration Site #1: 5.7 mi
  • Victorian Garden: 8.9 mi
Peaks
Picnic sites: 22
  • Lower Education Area: 7.7 mi
  • Upper Education Area: 7.8 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 8.9 mi
  • Wolf 5: 8.9 mi
  • Picnic Area A & B: 8.9 mi
Attractions: 17
Lighthouses: 11
Waterfalls: 7
  • Farms Falls: 19.9 mi
  • Devil's Glen Falls: 23.3 mi
  • Cascade: 23.5 mi
  • Cascade: 23.6 mi
  • Cascade: 23.9 mi
Cliffs: 5
Rest areas: 3
  • Long Island Welcome Center: 7.6 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 15.9 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 16.0 mi
Ghost towns: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.5 miles of Rose Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Round HillNW 311°172 m21.0 mi
Comstock KnollNNW 347°164 m21.4 mi
Huckleberry HillsNNW 344°141 m20.5 mi
Canoe HillNNW 342°140 m18.9 mi
Camfield HillN 1°123 m21.5 mi
Jayne's HillSSW 206°122 m6.9 mi
Ferris HillNNW 342°120 m19.4 mi
Pine HillNNW 343°120 m19.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:2319:4820:29
September equinox06:4218:1618:53
December solstice07:1515:4516:29

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313339506069757367564637
Precip in3.73.14.24.13.94.33.84.34.74.33.54.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Centerport, 2 mi away.

  • Bald Eagle29 obs
  • Canada Goose29 obs
  • Bufflehead28 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab21 obs
  • mountain laurel21 obs
  • Canvasback20 obs
  • American Herring Gull18 obs
  • Black Swallowtail16 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1452689318

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