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Winter Garden

Winter Garden from directly overhead

Winter Garden is a garden in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 205 m. Livingston Mountain stands 595 m to the northeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Sapporo Pagoda, a artwork 0.3 miles away. JCT SR 5 VIC VANCOUVER ALONG WESTSIDE VANCOUVER LAKE TO NW LOWER RIVER RD passes 8.1 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Portland

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates45.51674, -122.71373

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Sapporo Pagoda: 0.3 mi
  • Sculpture Garden: 0.6 mi
  • Tree: 0.6 mi
  • Facing the Crowd: 1.1 mi
  • Large Metal Pigs: 1.2 mi
Gardens
  • Bonsai Terrace: 0.3 mi
  • Portland Japanese Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Sand and Stone Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Wildlife Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Shattuck Hall Ecological Learning Plaza: 1.5 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
  • Great Northwest: 0.4 mi
  • Cascade Crest: 0.5 mi
  • "Peggy" Locomotive: 0.5 mi
  • Pacific Shores: 0.5 mi
  • Primate Forest: 0.5 mi
Nature reserves
Parks
  • Hillside Park: 0.8 mi
  • Southwest Talbot Property: 0.9 mi
  • Portland Heights Park: 0.9 mi
  • Marine Layer Parklet: 1.1 mi
  • Firehouse Theater Grounds: 1.1 mi
Peaks
Museums: 53
Picnic sites: 24
Waterfalls: 19
  • Cedar Mill Falls: 4.2 mi
  • Jane Martin Waterfall: 4.6 mi
  • Knapp Falls: 8.2 mi
  • Singer Falls: 12.2 mi
  • Willamette Falls: 12.3 mi
Beaches: 14
  • Poet's Beach: 2.2 mi
  • Lindbergh’s Beach: 2.6 mi
  • North Beach: 6.8 mi
  • Surprise Beach: 7.4 mi
  • Lieser Point: 8.8 mi
Cliffs: 10
  • Waud Bluff: 3.8 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 7.5 mi
  • Phantom Bluff: 7.6 mi
  • Rocky Butte Quarry: 7.6 mi
  • Schwingus - Rocky Butte Quarry: 7.6 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Springs: 6
  • School District Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Oliver Spring: 17.0 mi
  • Giesy Spring: 20.3 mi
  • Fern Spring: 21.8 mi
  • spring w/concrete cover: 22.1 mi
Rest areas: 4
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Winter Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Livingston MountainNE 56°595 m20.1 mi
Spud MountainNE 55°576 m21.1 mi
Rye HillNW 315°566 m21.8 mi
Bald PeakWSW 243°497 m18.6 mi
Dixie MountainNW 321°490 m16.2 mi
Little BaldyNE 53°437 m18.9 mi
Bald HillNNW 327°427 m21.8 mi
Cornell MountainWNW 289°392 m2.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4419:24
June solstice05:2320:1821:04
September equinox06:5918:3119:10
December solstice07:4915:4116:31

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424548535963697065554742
Precip in6.44.74.83.62.61.50.40.51.64.06.67.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Portland Kgw-tv, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Pacific trillium1,253 obs
  • Pacific Banana Slug1,177 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco664 obs
  • western redcedar657 obs
  • western maidenhair fern470 obs
  • western sword fern457 obs
  • thimbleberry377 obs
  • Pacific Sideband363 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 node/7127348526

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