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Rotary Garden

Rotary Garden from directly overhead

Rotary Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 58 m. Chiches 2 stands 1,104 m to the east-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Meadow Park, a park 0.1 miles away. San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway - Route 1 passes 2.1 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates35.26902, -120.66017

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Meadow Park: 0.1 mi
  • Hawthorne Park: 0.1 mi
  • South Hills Trailhead: 0.3 mi
  • South Hills Open Space: 0.5 mi
  • Triangle Park: 0.5 mi
Peaks
  • Terrace Hill: 0.6 mi
  • Vulture Peak: 0.6 mi
  • Orcutt Knob: 1.3 mi
  • Cerro San Luis Obispo: 1.5 mi
  • Righetti Hill: 2.1 mi
Museums: 25
Attractions: 19
  • Bubblegum Alley: 0.7 mi
  • Bubblegum Alley: 0.7 mi
  • The P: 2.4 mi
  • Cal Poly Architecture Graveyard: 3.3 mi
  • Monarch Butterfly Grove: 9.7 mi
Historic sites: 17
Springs: 15
  • Sulphur Pot: 6.2 mi
  • McLain Spring: 9.9 mi
  • Salsipuedes Spring #1: 12.0 mi
  • Salsipuedes Spring #2: 12.4 mi
  • McNeil Spring: 14.4 mi
Nature reserves: 14
  • Cerro San Luis Natural Reserve: 1.1 mi
  • Reservoir Canyon Natural Reserve: 2.1 mi
  • Johnson Ranch Open Space: 3.5 mi
  • Pismo Preserve: 7.9 mi
  • Los Osos Oaks State Natural Reserve: 9.1 mi
Artworks: 12
Beaches: 12
  • Pirates Cove: 7.1 mi
  • Avila Beach: 7.5 mi
  • Olde Port Beach: 8.1 mi
  • Olde Port Beach: 8.1 mi
  • Fisherman's Beach: 8.4 mi
Gardens: 7
Picnic sites: 6
  • Road Runner Picnic Site: 2.0 mi
  • Rockrose: 10.2 mi
  • Willow Bluff: 10.2 mi
  • Meadow View: 10.3 mi
  • Arboleda Picnic Area: 12.1 mi
Waterfalls: 6
  • Reservoir Creek Falls: 2.3 mi
  • Big Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Little Falls: 9.8 mi
  • Little Falls: 9.8 mi
  • Islay Falls: 11.5 mi
Cliffs: 4
Natural arches: 1
  • Smugglers Cave: 7.3 mi
Hot springs: 1
  • Franklin Hot Springs: 22.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Rotary Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Chiches 2ENE 64°1,104 m19.4 mi
Black MountainENE 63°1,089 m19.3 mi
Hi MountainE 93°969 m13.3 mi
Lopez MountainENE 64°869 m5.1 mi
Hi Mountain PotreroE 90°865 m13.0 mi
Bald MountainESE 103°855 m9.1 mi
Gay MountainENE 76°850 m5.7 mi
Tassajera PeakNNW 343°836 m9.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4119:15
June solstice05:4919:4420:21
September equinox06:5118:2719:01
December solstice07:0816:1616:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F535456576063666766645853
Precip in3.93.53.21.00.50.10.10.00.00.91.43.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Luis Obispo Mcchesney FLD, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch303 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard196 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk160 obs
  • California poppy140 obs
  • clay mariposa lily123 obs
  • California Golden Violet120 obs
  • Black Phoebe117 obs
  • California Scrub-Jay115 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.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/165914045

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