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San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden

San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden from directly overhead

San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 94 m. Chiches 2 stands 1,104 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is El Chorro Regional Park, a park 0.3 miles away. San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway - Route 1 runs past it.

The record

What the record says

Built
1997
Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates35.33180, -120.72863

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • El Chorro Regional Park: 0.3 mi
  • Bishop Peak Natural Area: 2.8 mi
  • Throop Park: 3.9 mi
  • Leaning Pine Arboretum: 4.0 mi
  • O'Neill Green: 4.2 mi
Peaks
Museums: 24
Attractions: 19
Historic sites: 18
Nature reserves: 16
Artworks: 13
Beaches: 12
  • Morro Dunes Natural Preserve: 7.8 mi
  • Morro Rock Beach: 8.2 mi
  • Spooner's Cove: 9.8 mi
  • Morro Strand State Beach: 10.2 mi
  • Avila Beach: 10.6 mi
Springs: 10
  • McLain Spring: 6.3 mi
  • Sulphur Pot: 10.1 mi
  • Salsipuedes Spring #1: 16.3 mi
  • Salsipuedes Spring #2: 16.8 mi
  • McNeil Spring: 18.7 mi
Gardens: 7
Picnic sites: 6
  • Road Runner Picnic Site: 7.8 mi
  • Holloway Garden: 9.8 mi
  • Rockrose: 15.9 mi
  • Willow Bluff: 15.9 mi
  • Meadow View: 16.0 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Reservoir Creek Falls: 6.3 mi
  • Islay Falls: 8.8 mi
  • Big Falls: 13.1 mi
  • Little Falls: 14.7 mi
  • Little Falls: 14.7 mi
Cliffs: 4
Natural arches: 1
  • Smugglers Cave: 10.9 mi
Hot springs: 1
  • Franklin Hot Springs: 18.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.9 miles of San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Chiches 2ENE 79°1,104 m21.6 mi
Black MountainENE 78°1,089 m21.5 mi
Hi MountainESE 106°969 m17.8 mi
Lopez MountainESE 104°869 m8.7 mi
Hi Mountain PotreroESE 105°865 m17.5 mi
Bald MountainESE 116°855 m14.2 mi
Gay MountainESE 108°850 m9.8 mi
Tassajera PeakNNE 15°836 m4.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4119:15
June solstice05:4919:4420:22
September equinox06:5218:2819:01
December solstice07:0916:1616:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F545557586164666767655954
Precip in5.14.93.91.40.50.10.10.00.10.82.03.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Luis Obispo Poly, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard96 obs
  • San Luis mariposa lily59 obs
  • springtime amanita57 obs
  • Hummingbird Sage51 obs
  • Wild Turkey44 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog35 obs
  • Pacific poison oak34 obs
  • coast live oak31 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/12271998166

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