The Children’s Garden
The Children’s Garden is a garden in Ohio, at a modelled elevation of 270 m. Anstine Hill stands 337 m to the southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Allen County Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway runs past it. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway
- 11.5 mi off the Miami & Erie Canal Scenic Byway
- 19.3 mi off the Old Mill Stream Scenic Byway
- 25.0 mi off the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Industry Park: 0.6 mi
- Faurot Park: 0.7 mi
- Collett Street Park: 0.9 mi
- Hoover Park: 0.9 mi
- Baxter Park: 1.1 mi
- White Feather's Town: 10.9 mi
- St. Anthony's Cemetery marker: 12.5 mi
- Christ on the Cross: 12.5 mi
- Presbyterian Church Bell: 12.7 mi
- Ten commandments monument: 12.7 mi
- Bird Bath: 2.4 mi
- The Mystery Stone: 10.9 mi
- Temple of Tolerance Rock Garden: 12.4 mi
- St. Anthony statue: 12.8 mi
- St. Anthony garden statue: 12.8 mi
- Allen County Museum: 0.1 mi
- Lafayette-Jackson Historical Society: 8.8 mi
- Armstrong Air and Space Museum: 12.6 mi
- Wapakoneta Historical Museum: 12.6 mi
- Clymer Wildlife Museum: 12.7 mi
- Ferald Ritchie Nature Preserve: 11.8 mi
- Auglaize Fish & Game Association: 13.4 mi
- Bluffton Nature Preserve: 15.6 mi
- Dr. Elizabeth Yahl Kuffner Nature Preserve: 18.2 mi
- Gross Woods Nature Preserve: 19.0 mi
- Nickel Plate 779: 1.3 mi
- Haunted Town Hall: 8.8 mi
- Suter's Produce Corn Maze: 15.1 mi
- Swiss Homestead Culinary and Medicinal Garden: 14.4 mi
- Lynch Memorial Gardens: 19.2 mi
- Grand Lake St. Marys East Bank Park: 21.0 mi
- Auglaize Interstate 75 SB: 10.0 mi
- Auglaize Interstate 75 NB: 10.1 mi
- Mount Lookout: 10.9 mi
- Anstine Hill: 17.8 mi
- Fox Island Beach: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Children’s Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anstine Hill | SE 125° | 337 m | 17.8 mi |
| Mount Lookout | SSE 155° | 318 m | 10.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:13 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:06 | 20:31 | 21:12 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 18:59 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:58 | 16:29 | 17:13 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 29 | 38 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 54 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lima Wwtp, 1 mi away.
- Mallard11 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle9 obs
- North American Wheel Bug9 obs
- Eastern Pondhawk8 obs
- Great Blue Heron7 obs
- Halloween Pennant7 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider7 obs
- Mourning Dove6 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/463923487
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