Seed Garden
Seed Garden is a garden in Alaska, at a modelled elevation of 481 m. Gilmore Dome stands 738 m to the east-northeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Ester Dome, a peak 3.6 miles away. Alaska Railroad passes 4.1 miles off. 93 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Calypso Farm Ecology Center
How to reach it
- 4.1 mi off the Alaska Railroad
- 2.7 mi off the The George Parks Highway Scenic Byway, National
- 12.5 mi off the Richardson Highway
- 17.3 mi off the Steese Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Observation Platform · 12 mi
- Observation Platform · 13 mi
93 named places within 25 miles
- Chena Indian Village: 7.0 mi
- Steamboat Landing: 7.9 mi
- Riverboat Discovery: 8.0 mi
- Running Reindeer Ranch: 8.0 mi
- The Great Alaskan Bowl Company: 9.1 mi
- Bee Field: 6.0 mi
- Babula Children’s Garden: 8.3 mi
- Goldstream Valley Community Garden: 8.4 mi
- Troth Yeddha' Park: 8.8 mi
- Cornerstone Plaza: 9.4 mi
- UAF Planet Walk Start (Sun): 8.4 mi
- University of Alaska Museum of the North: 8.7 mi
- Pioneer Air Museum: 10.6 mi
- Alaska Rkaayeh Village Museum: 10.6 mi
- SS Nenana: 10.7 mi
- Ester Dome: 3.6 mi
- Murphy Dome: 10.1 mi
- Birch Hill: 14.6 mi
- Clear Creek Butte: 17.1 mi
- Mount Lulu Fairbanks: 19.0 mi
- Black Brant IX sounding rocket: 8.5 mi
- Barnette's Landing: 12.1 mi
- Interior Alaska Veterans Memorial: 12.2 mi
- Lend-Lease Monument: 12.3 mi
- White Alice Communications Station: 22.9 mi
- International Signpost: 8.5 mi
- Pioneer by the Bus Stop: 10.7 mi
- Big Stampede Mural: 10.7 mi
- Walter Harper Statue: 12.1 mi
- Felix Pedro Monument: 22.1 mi
- Georgeson Botanical Garden: 8.2 mi
- Community Garden: 9.1 mi
- Swim Beach: 12.1 mi
- Cleary Summit Parking: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Seed Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilmore Dome | ENE 66° | 738 m | 24.6 mi |
| Ester Dome | NE 41° | 720 m | 3.6 mi |
| Mount Lulu Fairbanks | ENE 67° | 567 m | 19.0 mi |
| Clear Creek Butte | SSE 147° | 275 m | 17.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:53 | 19:03 | 20:08 |
| June solstice | 03:00 | 22:39 | 00:50 |
| September equinox | 07:36 | 18:51 | 19:56 |
| December solstice | 11:01 | — | 14:42 |
Local time (America/Anchorage).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | -8 | 1 | 10 | 32 | 48 | 58 | 61 | 54 | 43 | 24 | 3 | -4 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ester, 3 mi away.
- northern ground-cedar4 obs
- Fly Agaric3 obs
- squashberry3 obs
- Compton Tortoiseshell3 obs
- rock harlequin3 obs
- common yarrow2 obs
- quaking aspen2 obs
- Lingonberry2 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/1483918640
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