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Wild West Community Garden

Wild West Community Garden from directly overhead

Wild West Community Garden is a garden in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 238 m. Tavern Rock stands 272 m to the west-northwest, 6.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Old Pond School Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Historic Route 66 - MO passes 0.3 miles off. 21 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

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Fee
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How to reach it

Coordinates38.57332, -90.64692

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Old Pond School Park: 0.4 mi
  • Village Green: 0.9 mi
  • Rockwoods Reservation: 1.3 mi
  • Green Pines Park: 1.4 mi
  • Green Pines Park: 1.4 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
  • Boomerang: 4.2 mi
  • Screamin' Eagle: 4.2 mi
  • River King Mine Train: 4.3 mi
  • Pandemonium: 4.3 mi
  • Ninja: 4.3 mi
Artworks
Museums: 56
  • Wildwood History Museum: 3.8 mi
  • Myseum: 7.8 mi
  • The American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog: 9.0 mi
  • Morton J. May Foundation Gallery: 9.1 mi
  • Lindburg Automobile Center: 9.9 mi
Gardens: 51
Picnic sites: 22
Peaks: 21
  • High Point St. Louis County: 3.8 mi
  • Tavern Rock: 6.1 mi
  • Bald Hill: 6.2 mi
  • Antire Hill: 6.5 mi
  • Lost Hill: 7.3 mi
Springs: 19
  • Rockwood Spring: 1.0 mi
  • Zombie Road Spring: 2.7 mi
  • Crystal Spring: 4.1 mi
  • Sontags Spring: 4.5 mi
  • Babler Spring: 4.7 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Beaches: 5
  • Twimsberg Beach: 23.9 mi
  • Wunderblick Beach: 23.9 mi
  • Seebach Beach: 24.2 mi
  • Geneva Beach: 24.4 mi
  • Lionshead Beach: 24.5 mi
Cliffs: 4
  • Climbing Area: 1.3 mi
  • Shelter bluff: 1.6 mi
  • Vilhauer Bluff: 21.1 mi
  • La Charbonier Bluff: 21.6 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Dripping Springs: 13.1 mi
  • Deer Lake Riffles: 20.5 mi
  • Wise Falls: 20.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Wild West Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Tavern RockWNW 291°272 m6.1 mi
Chinkapin HillS 191°262 m12.8 mi
Herman's HilltopS 189°248 m12.6 mi
North LaBarque HillSSW 194°247 m12.8 mi
Frisco HillSE 141°247 m16.6 mi
South LaBarque HillSSW 194°244 m12.9 mi
Antire HillSE 130°237 m6.5 mi
Autumn HillWSW 247°217 m22.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4019:15
June solstice05:3919:5120:31
September equinox06:5118:2619:01
December solstice07:1716:0416:45

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323646566675797769574536
Precip in2.42.03.54.64.64.33.33.43.03.13.32.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ST Louis Spirit OF ST Louis AP, 6 mi away.

  • Western Honey Bee120 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee60 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee51 obs
  • Christmas fern50 obs
  • prairie trillium46 obs
  • Eastern Beebalm42 obs
  • fragrant sumac39 obs
  • rose vervain38 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/572847491

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