Sculpture Garden
Sculpture Garden is a garden in Alabama, at a modelled elevation of 182 m. Bald Rock Mountain stands 475 m to the east-northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Birmingham Museum of Art, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Alabama's Stagecoach Route Through Leeds passes 11 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 11.0 mi off the Alabama's Stagecoach Route Through Leeds
Named places within 25 miles
- Linn Park: 0.1 mi
- Henley Park: 0.1 mi
- Marconi Park: 0.4 mi
- Kelly Ingram Park: 0.5 mi
- Arthur Shores Park: 0.5 mi
- Shades Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Irish Hill: 4.7 mi
- Cat Mountain: 5.3 mi
- Little Valley Mountain: 6.9 mi
- Lassiter Mountain: 6.9 mi
- Steelworker: 0.0 mi
- Heaviest Corner on Earth: 0.6 mi
- Donor Memorial: 1.4 mi
- The Storyteller: 1.7 mi
- Decil’s Fountain: 1.7 mi
- Birmingham Museum of Art: 0.0 mi
- Alabama Sports Hall of Fame: 0.2 mi
- Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books: 0.5 mi
- McWane Science Center: 0.5 mi
- Arlington Antebellum Home and Gardens: 2.3 mi
- Jones Valley Teaching Farm: 0.5 mi
- UAB Upperclassmen Green: 1.7 mi
- Blazer Gardens: 1.8 mi
- Avondale Rose Garden: 2.1 mi
- Bush Hills Community Garden and Urban Farm: 2.7 mi
- Magic City Sign: 0.8 mi
- Complex Vision Mozaic: 1.4 mi
- Blaze: 1.5 mi
- Five Points South: 1.7 mi
- Vulcan: 2.3 mi
- Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark: 1.0 mi
- Vulcan: 2.3 mi
- Irondale Public Library: 7.2 mi
- Trussville Entertainment District: 13.3 mi
- Maggie's Glen: 13.4 mi
- Cannon Pavillion: 16.2 mi
- Tilton Arbor: 16.3 mi
- Front Porch: 16.3 mi
- Judson Day Gazeebo: 16.3 mi
- Lifeguard Gazeebo: 16.3 mi
- Ruffner Mountain: 7.1 mi
- Moss Rock Preserve: 9.7 mi
- Turkey Creek Nature Preserve: 14.0 mi
- Turkey Creek Nature Preserve: 14.4 mi
- Bolton-Orr Ecological Preserve at Ebenezer Wetlands: 24.4 mi
- Laurel Point: 16.0 mi
- Falling Rock: 24.7 mi
- Bike Repair: 8.5 mi
- Spoonwood Lake Beach: 13.3 mi
- Peavine Falls: 15.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.3 miles of Sculpture Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Rock Mountain | ENE 76° | 475 m | 23.1 mi |
| Signal Mountain | ESE 123° | 460 m | 15.8 mi |
| Sand Mountain | ESE 114° | 447 m | 16.7 mi |
| Butler Mountain | NE 40° | 430 m | 17.7 mi |
| Foster Mountain | NE 41° | 421 m | 17.2 mi |
| Cahaba Mountain | NE 47° | 419 m | 22.5 mi |
| Black Oak Mountain | NE 41° | 413 m | 16.4 mi |
| Praytor Mountain | NE 41° | 411 m | 17.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:24 | 20:01 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:13 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 06:48 | 16:06 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 49 | 56 | 64 | 72 | 78 | 82 | 81 | 76 | 65 | 54 | 47 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 4.9 | 5.7 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Birmingham AP, 5 mi away.
- House Sparrow43 obs
- Rock Pigeon36 obs
- Northern Mockingbird35 obs
- American Robin31 obs
- Mourning Dove30 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel30 obs
- Green Anole28 obs
- Pond Slider27 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/1360142220
Day trips start here
- Rickwood Caverns State Park · 25 mi
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