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Scrap Exchange Community Garden

Scrap Exchange Community Garden from directly overhead

Scrap Exchange Community Garden is a garden in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 110 m. Occoneechee Mountain stands 261 m to the west-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Wrightwood Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Colonial Heritage Byway passes 1.9 miles off. 33 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

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Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates35.99032, -78.92671

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Wrightwood Park: 0.3 mi
  • Maplewood Park: 0.4 mi
  • Lyon Park: 0.5 mi
  • Lyon Park: 0.5 mi
  • Lyon Park: 0.6 mi
Artworks
  • James B. Duke: 1.0 mi
  • Corner of Watt's and Trinity: 1.4 mi
  • Bug Walk: 1.4 mi
  • B.N. Duke: 1.4 mi
  • Visionary Leadership in the New South: 1.5 mi
Attractions: 49
Nature reserves: 49
Historic sites: 41
  • Major the bull: 1.5 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial: 1.5 mi
  • Turtle: 1.6 mi
  • Cardinal: 1.6 mi
  • Peace Pole: 2.7 mi
Peaks: 33
  • Huckleberry Hill: 3.8 mi
  • Couch Mountain: 4.7 mi
  • Piney Mountain: 4.7 mi
  • Nunn Mountain: 7.3 mi
  • Blackwood Mountain: 8.9 mi
Gardens: 31
  • Burch Ave Community Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Orchard Park Community Garden: 1.0 mi
  • Victory Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Grace Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Peace Garden: 1.6 mi
Museums: 28
Beaches: 9
  • Bobbit's Hole: 5.4 mi
  • Crosswinds Beach: 17.4 mi
  • White Oak Beach: 17.9 mi
  • Parker's Creek Beach: 18.3 mi
  • Poplar Point Beach: 19.2 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • Large Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 11.1 mi
  • Small Picnic Shelter at Southern Community Park: 11.1 mi
  • Youth camp tables, fire pit, wood storage: 12.6 mi
  • White Oak Recreation Area: 18.0 mi
  • Picnic Pavillion: 18.8 mi
Cliffs: 4
Waterfalls: 2
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Ye Olde Valley Spring: 4.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Scrap Exchange Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Occoneechee MountainWNW 294°261 m12.0 mi
Glenns MountainN 4°244 m18.8 mi
Red MountainN 2°243 m17.3 mi
Pickards MountainW 262°237 m13.2 mi
Brown Elfin KnobWNW 296°234 m11.6 mi
Bald MountainW 264°232 m10.4 mi
Terrells MountainWSW 238°232 m15.9 mi
Scarlett HillWNW 284°228 m9.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2018:5419:28
June solstice06:0019:5820:36
September equinox07:0418:4019:14
December solstice07:2316:2617:06

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384149586674787670594942
Precip in4.02.94.53.73.85.24.25.24.73.43.63.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Durham, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Green Anole361 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee293 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel279 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail269 obs
  • Great Blue Heron264 obs
  • Northern Cardinal257 obs
  • Silver-spotted Skipper222 obs
  • Mallard214 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/841426598

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