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South Park Demonstration Garden

South Park Demonstration Garden from directly overhead

South Park Demonstration Garden is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 313 m. Mount Wheeler stands 450 m to the southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is South Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Grand View Scenic Byway passes 7.9 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Penn State Master Gardeners
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.31532, -80.00748
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • South Park: 0.3 mi
  • Buffalo Ridge: 0.3 mi
  • Exercise Trail: 0.4 mi
  • Wave pool lounge area: 0.4 mi
  • Maple Springs: 0.5 mi
Historic sites
  • Joyce Kilmer Memorial: 0.3 mi
  • Edgebrook Shelter: 0.4 mi
  • Edgebrook Bridge: 0.4 mi
  • Vale of Cashmere: 0.7 mi
  • Spreading Oak Spring: 1.1 mi
Nature reserves
  • Buffalo Preserve: 0.4 mi
  • Shamrock Woods: 2.4 mi
  • Wiltshire Park: 3.3 mi
  • Hoodridge Park: 3.5 mi
  • Iroquois Park: 3.9 mi
Artworks
  • statue base: 2.4 mi
  • The Sail: 6.5 mi
  • Untitled: 7.7 mi
  • Fredosaurus Rex: 8.1 mi
  • McKeesport Model Railroad Club: 8.3 mi
Peaks
  • Pollocks Knob: 5.3 mi
  • 1104: 8.0 mi
  • 1094: 8.1 mi
  • 1104: 8.2 mi
  • 1162: 8.3 mi
Museums: 54
Gardens: 53
  • Daffodil Hill: 1.0 mi
  • Bethel Park Community Garden: 2.1 mi
  • Traut Triangle: 4.2 mi
  • Community Gardens: 4.9 mi
  • Community Gardens: 4.9 mi
Picnic sites: 20
  • Grove: 0.5 mi
  • Harvest: 9.2 mi
  • Springvale: 9.2 mi
  • Picnic Place at the Schenley Plaza: 9.3 mi
  • North Woods: 9.3 mi
Attractions: 19
Beaches: 6
  • Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 8.9 mi
  • Thornburg Beach: 8.9 mi
  • Tiger Beach: 8.9 mi
  • Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 8.9 mi
  • Aquatorium Beach Right Side: 9.0 mi
Cliffs: 3
Waterfalls: 1
  • Thompson Run Falls: 9.3 mi
Springs: 1
  • Francis Spring: 12.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.1 miles of South Park Demonstration Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount WheelerSW 224°450 m17.7 mi
Sheppler HillSE 138°429 m15.1 mi
Garrett HillWSW 249°420 m17.9 mi
Rich HillSE 138°420 m18.1 mi
Hannas KnobWSW 242°417 m10.3 mi
Pollocks KnobSE 145°407 m5.3 mi
Cemetery HillSW 231°397 m16.9 mi
Herron HillNNE 15°384 m10.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5619:32
June solstice05:5120:1320:54
September equinox07:0818:4319:19
December solstice07:4016:1416:58

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303240526270747265544334
Precip in3.12.63.23.44.14.63.93.83.53.13.03.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pittsburgh Allegheny CO AP, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer276 obs
  • Monarch132 obs
  • Mallard99 obs
  • American Robin85 obs
  • Pond Slider78 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly55 obs
  • common milkweed52 obs
  • Northern Dusky Salamander51 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/880165271

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