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South Loop Community Garden

South Loop Community Garden from directly overhead

South Loop Community Garden is a garden in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 248 m. Dills Mound stands 320 m to the east, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is River Ridge Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Grand Rounds Scenic Byway passes 3.8 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

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City of Bloomington
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates44.84698, -93.23940

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • River Ridge Park: 0.1 mi
  • Wright's Lake Park: 0.5 mi
  • Cedarcrest Park: 0.7 mi
  • Bloomington Central Station Park: 0.9 mi
  • Cooks Playlot: 0.9 mi
Artworks
  • Convergence: 0.7 mi
  • Minnesota Compass Rose: 2.8 mi
  • South Mall Stage: 2.8 mi
  • Snoopy at The North Star Flying Ace: 2.9 mi
  • Thomson Reuters Main Mall Gallery: 2.9 mi
Museums
  • Northwest Airlines History Center: 1.2 mi
  • The Works: 2.7 mi
  • Richfield History Center and Museum: 3.2 mi
  • Minnesota Air National Guard Museum: 3.6 mi
  • Bloomington Historical Museum: 4.2 mi
Historic sites
  • Pond/Dakota house: 2.8 mi
  • Richfield All Veterans Memorial: 3.0 mi
  • Minneapolis: 3.4 mi
  • WPA Work Camp No 1: 3.6 mi
  • Minneapolis: 3.6 mi
Nature reserves
  • Wood Lake Nature Center: 3.3 mi
  • Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 3.5 mi
  • Pilot Knob Preservation Site: 4.2 mi
  • McDonough Preserve: 5.3 mi
  • Uplands: 5.8 mi
Gardens
  • Kenny School Garden: 4.5 mi
  • Nokomis Naturescape Garden: 4.6 mi
  • Normandale Japanese Garden: 4.6 mi
  • We Garden: 4.8 mi
  • Longfellow Gardens: 4.9 mi
Attractions
  • Ampitheater: 5.7 mi
  • The Izaak Walton League of America: 7.0 mi
  • MCAD Sculpture Garden: 7.7 mi
  • Tulip House: 8.2 mi
  • Shoe Tree: 8.7 mi
Beaches: 50
  • Snelling Beach: 3.6 mi
  • Lake Nokomis 50th Street Beach: 4.5 mi
  • Lake Nokomis Main Beach: 4.5 mi
  • Lake Hiawatha Beach: 5.1 mi
  • Lake Harriet Southeast Beach: 5.7 mi
Picnic sites: 15
  • Wabun G: 5.0 mi
  • Wabun F: 5.0 mi
  • Picnic Glen: 5.0 mi
  • Wabun D: 5.0 mi
  • Wabun C: 5.0 mi
Peaks: 9
  • Sky Hill Park Overlook: 2.8 mi
  • Pilot Knob: 4.1 mi
  • Mount Gilboa: 6.3 mi
  • Norwegian Hill: 12.3 mi
  • Seminary Hill: 15.2 mi
Waterfalls: 6
  • Minnehaha Falls: 4.9 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 4.9 mi
  • Shadow Falls: 6.9 mi
  • Hamm’s Memorial Waterfalls: 10.5 mi
  • Phalen Regional Park Waterfall: 13.4 mi
Cliffs: 6
  • Minnehaha Falls: 4.9 mi
  • West Clay Pit: 7.9 mi
  • Middle Clay Pit: 7.9 mi
  • East Clay Pit: 8.1 mi
  • Sand Castles: 11.0 mi
Rest areas: 5
Springs: 4
  • Coldwater Spring: 4.2 mi
  • Hajduk Spring: 7.6 mi
  • Boiling Springs: 9.4 mi
  • White Worm Springs: 12.4 mi
Ghost towns: 4
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dills MoundE 101°320 m24.1 mi
Starks MoundE 96°310 m24.0 mi
Bissel's MoundENE 75°307 m20.5 mi
Norwegian HillN 359°293.522 m12.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1718:4719:25
June solstice05:2820:1821:03
September equinox07:0118:3419:12
December solstice07:4815:4716:35

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F162133476070747264503522
Precip in0.90.91.72.93.94.64.14.33.02.61.61.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Minneapolis-st Paul Intl AP, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard408 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird364 obs
  • Bald Eagle309 obs
  • Trumpeter Swan283 obs
  • Canada Goose271 obs
  • Song Sparrow270 obs
  • Wood Duck264 obs
  • Great Blue Heron224 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1460314494

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