The Giving Garden
The Giving Garden is a garden in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 320 m. Little Flat stands 738 m to the southeast, 5.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Oak Grove Park, a park 0.3 miles away. High Plateau Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Permitted
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 18.4 mi off the High Plateau Scenic Byway
- 29.2 mi off the Bucktail Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Oak Grove Park: 0.3 mi
- Glenn Park: 0.3 mi
- Slab Cabin Park: 0.4 mi
- Dalevue Park: 0.4 mi
- Cairns Crossing: 0.5 mi
- Centre Furnace: 1.0 mi
- General James A. Beaver Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Faculty Cottages: 2.0 mi
- Atom First "Seen": 2.0 mi
- Lt. Michael P. Murphy Penn State Veterans Plaza: 2.1 mi
- Mount Nittany: 1.7 mi
- Bald Knob: 4.0 mi
- Little Flat: 5.1 mi
- Big Flat: 6.0 mi
- Tussey Mountain: 6.0 mi
- Walnut Spring: 0.9 mi
- Bathgate Spring: 1.0 mi
- Thompson Spring: 1.2 mi
- Blue Spring: 2.3 mi
- Benner Spring: 3.3 mi
- Centre Furnace Mansion: 0.9 mi
- Penn State All-Sports Museum: 1.7 mi
- The Frost Entomological Museum: 2.0 mi
- Pennsylvania Agricultural College (PAC) Herbarium: 2.1 mi
- Armsby Respiration Calorimeter Museum: 2.1 mi
- Lucy C. Lederer Statue: 0.9 mi
- We Are Sculpture: 1.8 mi
- Centennial Piglet Statue: 1.9 mi
- Pictasaurus: 2.0 mi
- Old Main Sundial: 2.0 mi
- Millbrook Marsh Nature Center: 1.0 mi
- Mill Wheel: 1.3 mi
- Deeded Square Inches: 1.8 mi
- Columbus Chapel: 2.1 mi
- M42A1 Duster: 2.1 mi
- Thompson Woods Preserve: 0.6 mi
- Stony Batter Natural Area: 1.3 mi
- Stan Yoder Memorial Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Spring Creek Canyon: 4.0 mi
- Patton Woods Nature Recreation Area: 5.2 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 0.9 mi
- Penn State Community Garden Pollinator Garden: 1.3 mi
- Schreyer Garden: 1.9 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 2.2 mi
- Bee and Pollinator Garden: 2.3 mi
- The Rock: 3.2 mi
- Rocks at Laurel Creek Reservoir: 11.5 mi
- Buck Point: 13.4 mi
- Donation Rocks: 17.1 mi
- Hunter Rock: 17.7 mi
- Picnic Spot- Christian Fellowship Church: 9.6 mi
- Pine Hill Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
- Longfellow Vista: 23.2 mi
- Karl Guss Picnic Area: 23.3 mi
- Black Moshannon Beach: 14.5 mi
- Kish park beach access: 18.6 mi
- Beach access to Kish Creek: 19.6 mi
- Centre County Rest Area Eastbound: 16.1 mi
- Centre County Rest Area Westbound: 16.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.5 miles of The Giving Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Flat | SE 134° | 738 m | 5.1 mi |
| Thickhead Mountain | ESE 120° | 733 m | 7.9 mi |
| Big Flat | SSE 160° | 732 m | 6.0 mi |
| Broad Mountain | SSE 152° | 726 m | 9.6 mi |
| Grass Mountain | SE 138° | 717 m | 7.8 mi |
| Broad Mountain | ESE 120° | 716 m | 9.5 mi |
| Bear Knob | NNW 332° | 713 m | 11.4 mi |
| Milligans Knob | SE 137° | 711 m | 11.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:16 | 18:47 | 19:24 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 20:06 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:34 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:04 | 16:47 |
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 | 27 | 29 | 37 | 49 | 60 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — State College, 2 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel149 obs
- Eastern Cottontail92 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee88 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk85 obs
- American Robin77 obs
- dame's rocket75 obs
- garlic mustard73 obs
- Eastern Chipmunk69 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/1196881441
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