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Rotary Botanical Gardens

Rotary Botanical Gardens from directly overhead

Rotary Botanical Gardens is a garden in Wisconsin, at a modelled elevation of 235 m. Liberty Pole Hill stands 338 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Lions Beach, a beach 0.1 miles away. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.67107, -89.00492

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites: 26
  • First State Fair: 1.1 mi
  • Medal of Honor Memorial: 2.0 mi
  • New Life Cross: 3.2 mi
  • Route of Abraham Lincoln 1832 and 1859: 5.4 mi
  • Milton Veterans Memorial: 7.6 mi
Museums: 20
Attractions: 11
  • Five Points: 1.5 mi
  • Bessie the Cow: 3.6 mi
  • Skydive the Rock: 12.1 mi
  • Blackhawk Farms Raceway: 13.8 mi
  • Beckman Mill: 13.9 mi
Beaches: 8
  • Lions Beach: 0.1 mi
  • Swimming Beach: 13.9 mi
  • Whitewater Beach: 17.2 mi
  • Troll Beach: 19.7 mi
  • Assembly Park Beach: 20.7 mi
Artworks: 8
  • NIS Train: 8.1 mi
  • The Wall: 11.4 mi
  • Sundial: 17.5 mi
  • Giraffe Statue: 18.3 mi
  • Romeo the Elephant: 18.4 mi
Gardens: 7
Peaks: 4
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 3
Picnic sites: 1
  • Williams Knoll: 23.6 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Liberty Pole HillWNW 298°338 m23.3 mi
Lone Tree BluffENE 63°320 m18.8 mi
Bald BluffENE 59°317 m23.5 mi
Mount ZionENE 58°316 m5.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:08
June solstice05:1919:5520:38
September equinox06:4418:1818:55
December solstice07:2415:4016:26

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F202435475969737163513726
Precip in1.61.62.13.64.15.04.24.33.73.02.31.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Afton - Janesville Wwtp, 4 mi away.

  • Canada Goose23 obs
  • Monarch21 obs
  • American White Pelican19 obs
  • Mallard18 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee18 obs
  • American pokeweed17 obs
  • common motherwort16 obs
  • Red Admiral14 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/780331547

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