Garden · Iowa
The Panther Plot
The Panther Plot is a garden in Iowa, at a modelled elevation of 271 m. The nearest named place is UNI Memory Garden, a park 0.2 miles away. Great River Road passes 71 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- UNI
- Access
- Permitted
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
Coordinates42.51168, -92.45626
- 70.6 mi off the Great River Road, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- UNI Memory Garden: 0.2 mi
- Seerley Park: 0.4 mi
- Hearst Sculpture Garden: 0.5 mi
- Round Park: 0.6 mi
- Firemans Park: 0.9 mi
Nature reserves: 56
- Castle Bluff Park: 3.5 mi
- Greenbelt Lake: 4.1 mi
- Robinson Bird Sanctuary: 4.3 mi
- Katoski Greenbelt: 5.1 mi
- Beaver Valley Wetlands Wildlife Reserve: 5.5 mi
Attractions: 26
- Yuta Falls: 8.9 mi
- Kukui Station: 9.0 mi
- Eeki Eeki Escape: 9.0 mi
- Wakani Whirl: 9.0 mi
- Awaati Battle: 9.0 mi
Museums: 19
- Cedar Falls Historical Society: 1.7 mi
- Victorian House Museum: 1.7 mi
- Iowa Band Museum: 1.8 mi
- Ice House: 1.9 mi
- Little School House: 1.9 mi
Gardens: 9
- EMBARC Garden: 5.0 mi
- 4th Street Garden: 5.8 mi
- People's Garden: 6.6 mi
- NEIFB Community Garden: 6.9 mi
- Children's Garden: 8.8 mi
Historic sites: 5
- OVERMAN PARK: 1.7 mi
- Leo P. Rooff Memorial: 6.0 mi
- USS Frank E. Evans D7540: 6.1 mi
- POW Memorial: 6.1 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 24.1 mi
Artworks: 2
- Statue Of Liberty Replica: 6.1 mi
- Dancing St. Francis: 15.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Siegel: 22.5 mi
Cliffs: 1
- 325th Street: 24.8 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:45 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:09 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 15:55 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 24 | 37 | 49 | 62 | 72 | 75 | 72 | 65 | 52 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 5.7 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waterloo Muni AP, 4 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee108 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee68 obs
- Monarch62 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel51 obs
- Two-spotted Bumble Bee40 obs
- Black-and-gold Bumble Bee34 obs
- Western Honey Bee29 obs
- American Toad24 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.
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