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Troy Botanical Garden

Troy Botanical Garden from directly overhead

Troy Botanical Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 158 m. Berlin Mountain stands 853 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Brunswick Wildlife Viewing Area, a park 0.6 miles away. Lakes to Locks Passage passes 3.8 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Customers only
Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.75358, -73.61594

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Brunswick Wildlife Viewing Area: 0.6 mi
  • Brunswick Vanderheyden Reservoir Park: 1.3 mi
  • Brunswick Sports Complex: 2.2 mi
  • Frear Park: 2.6 mi
  • Knickerbacker Park: 3.0 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
Historic sites
  • General Wool: 2.8 mi
  • Robert Ross Memorial: 2.8 mi
  • old dam: 2.9 mi
  • Knickerbacker Monument: 2.9 mi
  • Suffragist: 3.4 mi
Museums: 57
Waterfalls: 39
  • Piscawen Falls: 2.4 mi
  • Poesten Kill Falls: 3.8 mi
  • Poesten Kill Falls: 3.8 mi
  • Upper Burden Falls: 4.5 mi
  • Smart's Cascade: 4.5 mi
Artworks: 38
Gardens: 36
  • Tenth Street Community Garden: 3.2 mi
  • Ninth Street Community Garden: 3.3 mi
  • Troy Rocks: 4.1 mi
  • Gretchen's Garden: 4.3 mi
  • Brinton and Avery's Place: 4.3 mi
Attractions: 35
  • Uncle Sam's Grave: 2.7 mi
  • United Methodist Church bell: 4.3 mi
  • Saint Brigid's Bell: 5.8 mi
  • John Van Buren Grave: 6.4 mi
  • William Learned Marcy Grave: 6.5 mi
Springs: 16
  • Spring Avenue Spring: 4.0 mi
  • Bathtub Spring: 22.0 mi
  • Tallulah Spring: 22.6 mi
  • Karista Spring: 22.6 mi
  • Polaris: 22.6 mi
Cliffs: 11
Beaches: 6
Rest areas: 4
Covered bridges: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.5 miles of Troy Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Berlin MountainESE 104°853 m17.3 mi
Misery MountainESE 122°793 m17.8 mi
Mount RaimerE 99°784 m17.1 mi
White RockE 90°775 m17.0 mi
Bald MountainE 87°757 m16.9 mi
White RocksE 96°706 m17.5 mi
Smith HillE 94°703 m17.6 mi
Rounds MountainSE 132°685 m19.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:2919:07
June solstice05:1719:5420:37
September equinox06:4218:1618:54
December solstice07:2215:3816:24

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262836496170757366534232
Precip in2.62.42.93.13.84.64.63.93.84.22.83.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Troy L&D, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee13 obs
  • Western Honey Bee8 obs
  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage6 obs
  • tree-of-heaven6 obs
  • White-tailed Deer5 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee5 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee5 obs
  • Great Blue Heron4 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.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/136670189

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