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Step By Step Storybook Garden

Step By Step Storybook Garden from directly overhead

Step By Step Storybook Garden is a garden in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 23 m. The Three Sisters stands 1,237 m to the east-southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Van Lierop Park, a park 0.1 miles away. JCT MT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK TO JCT SR 162 VIC SOUTH PRAIRIE passes 9.6 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.18509, -122.24926

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Van Lierop Park: 0.1 mi
  • Grand Park: 0.8 mi
  • Loyalty Park: 1.1 mi
  • Reuben Knoblauch Heritage Park: 1.3 mi
  • Ryan Park: 1.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Dixie Gatchel Memorial Plaque: 0.2 mi
  • Jan Wolcott/Ernie Bay Memorial Stone: 0.2 mi
  • Bill Heath: 1.9 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial: 2.1 mi
  • Peace Pole: 3.4 mi
Attractions
  • Jumping Juniors: 1.8 mi
  • Meeker Mansion: 2.0 mi
  • Merry-Go-Round: 2.1 mi
  • Extreme Scream: 2.3 mi
  • Draft Horses: 2.3 mi
Artworks
  • Nature's Medley: 2.0 mi
  • Renovation: 2.1 mi
  • Unconditional: 2.1 mi
  • Eroded Sphere: 2.1 mi
  • Earthsound: 2.1 mi
Gardens
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Spar Pole Hill: 10.7 mi
  • Indian Hill: 11.2 mi
  • Brooks Hill: 12.5 mi
  • Porter Hills: 12.7 mi
  • Long Hill: 12.9 mi
Museums: 55
Picnic sites: 28
  • Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
  • Kiwanis Picnic Area: 9.6 mi
  • Main Picnic Area: 9.7 mi
  • Picnic Site #4: 9.9 mi
  • Picnic Site #3: 9.9 mi
Beaches: 19
  • Sex Cove: 4.3 mi
  • North Beach: 10.4 mi
  • South Beach: 10.4 mi
  • Dash Point State Park Beach: 12.1 mi
  • Waterfront: 12.2 mi
Waterfalls: 14
  • Victor Falls: 3.9 mi
  • Wildcat Falls: 21.0 mi
  • Nisqually Falls: 22.7 mi
  • Little Mashel Lower Falls: 23.2 mi
  • Ranger Falls: 23.2 mi
Ghost towns: 11
Lighthouses: 11
Cliffs: 9
Springs: 7
  • Maplewood Spring: 3.3 mi
  • Duryea Roadside Hidden Spring: 10.3 mi
  • Garrison Springs: 15.1 mi
  • Ellison Spring: 18.7 mi
  • Clear Creek Springs: 22.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.4 miles of Step By Step Storybook Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
The Three SistersESE 108°1,237 m18.4 mi
Enumclaw MountainENE 74°849 m17.1 mi
Gleason HillSE 134°699 m14.9 mi
Brooks HillSE 141°600 m12.5 mi
Radio HillE 89°589 m16.2 mi
Wingate HillSE 136°588 m13.7 mi
Spar Pole HillSSE 152°581 m10.7 mi
Pinnacle PeakE 93°536 m13.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4119:22
June solstice05:1420:2121:09
September equinox06:5718:2819:09
December solstice07:5415:3016:22

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404144485459646559504339
Precip in6.14.34.83.93.02.30.90.91.84.17.16.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mcmillin Rsvr, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Pacific Banana Slug103 obs
  • Pacific Sideband42 obs
  • Western Honey Bee30 obs
  • Salmonberry30 obs
  • Herb Robert29 obs
  • American Robin28 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco27 obs
  • Pacific trillium25 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/1296561591

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