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rose garden

rose garden from directly overhead

rose garden is a garden in Nevada, at a modelled elevation of 1,391 m. Mount Rose stands 3,285 m to the south-southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Physics Planter, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Mount Rose Highway passes 10 miles off.

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Coordinates39.54116, -119.81480

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Nena Miller Statue: 0.1 mi
  • Richard H. Bryan Statue: 0.1 mi
  • Offset Forms 08: 0.1 mi
  • Punjab VIII: 0.1 mi
  • Steel and Fabrication Sculpture: 0.1 mi
Parks
  • Dick Taylor Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
  • Seminary Park: 0.3 mi
  • 9th Street Park: 0.3 mi
  • Evans Park: 0.3 mi
  • Eighth Street Park: 0.5 mi
Peaks
  • Cross Peak: 5.1 mi
  • Rattlesnake Mountain: 5.6 mi
  • Huffaker Hills: 6.5 mi
  • Peavine Peak: 7.0 mi
  • Peavine Mountain: 7.0 mi
Gardens: 32
  • Physics Planter: 0.0 mi
  • Linske Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Wolf Flow Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Wolf Flow Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Wolf Flow Garden: 0.1 mi
Museums: 27
Historic sites: 24
  • Frank Zenklusen Memorial: 0.2 mi
  • F. Donald Tibbetts Memorial Plaza: 0.2 mi
  • Distinguised Nevadans Memorial: 0.2 mi
  • Sergeant George D. Sullivan Memorial: 0.3 mi
  • The Basque Sheepherder Monument: 1.3 mi
Attractions: 18
Springs: 17
  • Cold Spring: 14.7 mi
  • Summit Spring: 17.2 mi
  • Mud Spring: 17.3 mi
  • Horse Spring: 17.9 mi
  • Juniper Ridge Spring: 18.0 mi
Nature reserves: 15
Beaches: 9
Ghost towns: 6
Cliffs: 5
Waterfalls: 1
  • Jumbo Falls: 16.0 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Donner Camp Picnic Site: 22.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.4 miles of rose garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount RoseSSW 202°3,285 m14.7 mi
Church PeakSSW 204°3,235 m14.3 mi
Mount HoughtonSSW 205°3,195 m15.8 mi
Relay PeakSSW 204°3,135 m17.2 mi
Snowflower MountainSSW 210°3,115 m12.7 mi
Tamarack PeakSSW 200°3,012 m16.4 mi
Slide MountainSSW 193°2,936 m16.2 mi
Rose Knob PeakSSW 204°2,932 m18.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0318:3619:12
June solstice05:3319:5020:31
September equinox06:4818:2218:58
December solstice07:1715:5716:39

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F374045505968777568554436
Precip in1.31.00.90.50.60.50.30.20.20.60.71.2

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

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard403 obs
  • Mallard396 obs
  • Canada Goose308 obs
  • White Horehound217 obs
  • Western Honey Bee202 obs
  • American Robin192 obs
  • narrowleaf milkweed187 obs
  • Great Horned Owl172 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/488290260

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