Swissvale Community Pollinator Garden
Swissvale Community Pollinator Garden is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 282 m. Pollocks Knob stands 407 m to the south-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Filmet Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Grand View Scenic Byway passes 5.9 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Swissvale Borough
How to reach it
- 5.9 mi off the Grand View Scenic Byway
- 24.2 mi off the Historic National Road - Pennsylvania, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Filmet Park: 0.3 mi
- Les Getz Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
- Collingwood Park: 0.5 mi
- Dickson Park: 0.6 mi
- Koenig Field: 0.7 mi
- Carrie Blast Furnace Number 6 and 7: 0.7 mi
- Homestead Labyrinth: 0.9 mi
- Homestead Works Pump House: 0.9 mi
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial: 1.3 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 1.6 mi
- Clayton Hill: 1.3 mi
- Riverview Hill: 1.3 mi
- Cowboy Hill: 1.6 mi
- Prospect Hill: 2.7 mi
- Flagstaff Hill: 3.3 mi
- Freedom and Liberation Wall: 2.3 mi
- Breath: 2.7 mi
- Captured::Pittsburgh Open Air Photography Gallery: 3.2 mi
- The Campo: 3.2 mi
- Scotty Statue: 3.3 mi
- Churchill Valley Greenway: 2.9 mi
- Hays Woods Park: 3.9 mi
- Oakcliffe Greenway: 4.1 mi
- Sycamore Island: 5.0 mi
- Pioneer Park: 5.1 mi
- National Carpatho-Rusyn Cultural and Educational Center: 1.5 mi
- Frick Art and Historical Center: 1.8 mi
- The Frick Pittsburgh: 1.9 mi
- Car & Carraige Museum: 1.9 mi
- Clayton Mansion: 1.9 mi
- The Frick Greenhouse: 1.9 mi
- Braddock Farms: 2.0 mi
- Dornbush Rain Garden: 2.2 mi
- A Second Chance Community Garden: 2.3 mi
- Walled Garden: 2.6 mi
- Picnic Place at the Schenley Plaza: 3.7 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 7.3 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 7.4 mi
- Picnic Area: 8.5 mi
- Grove: 9.6 mi
- Pittsburgh Yarn Company: 1.5 mi
- Westinghouse Atom Smasher: 2.4 mi
- Heinz Memorial Chapel: 3.8 mi
- Stephen Foster Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Cathedral of Learning: 3.8 mi
- Thornburg Beach: 10.0 mi
- Tiger Beach: 10.5 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 15.3 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Left Side: 15.3 mi
- Aquatorium Beach Right Side: 15.4 mi
- Hay's Wall: 3.8 mi
- Fossils Cliff: 13.8 mi
- Thompson Run Falls: 3.6 mi
- Francis Spring: 8.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.8 miles of Swissvale Community Pollinator Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pollocks Knob | SSW 196° | 407 m | 12.3 mi |
| Herron Hill | WNW 300° | 384 m | 4.4 mi |
| Rich Hill | NNE 12° | 365 m | 11.2 mi |
| Mt. Sycamore | NNE 19° | 229.2 m | 5.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:56 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:13 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 16:13 | 16:57 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 31 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Braddock Lock 2, 3 mi away.
- White-tailed Deer375 obs
- American cancer-root291 obs
- American Robin261 obs
- Amur honeysuckle233 obs
- mayapple228 obs
- Central Ratsnake226 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk222 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly202 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/1418769210
Day trips start here
- Green Tree · 9 mi
- Mt. Lebanon · 9 mi
- Ross Township · 10 mi
- Irwin · 12 mi
- Robinson Township · 13 mi
- Franklin Park · 15 mi
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