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Yertle Garden

Yertle Garden from directly overhead

Yertle Garden is a garden in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 31 m. Mount Tom stands 363 m to the north-northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 15 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Springfield Museum
Fee
No

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates42.10385, -72.58664

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Artworks
Parks
  • Pynchon Park: 0.0 mi
  • Merrick Park: 0.1 mi
  • Bruce's Landing: 0.1 mi
  • Armoury Commons: 0.2 mi
  • Stearns Square: 0.2 mi
Historic sites
  • The Puritan: 0.1 mi
  • Edward P. Boland Memorial: 0.2 mi
  • Civil War Monument: 0.2 mi
  • Parsons Tavern Location: 0.2 mi
  • First Meeting House: 0.2 mi
Peaks
  • Laurel Hill: 1.9 mi
  • McCarthy Hill: 4.8 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 5.0 mi
  • Bradley Mountain: 5.3 mi
  • Liswell Hill: 5.3 mi
Nature reserves
Gardens: 59
Attractions: 38
  • Springfield Museums: 0.0 mi
  • Seymour Planetarium: 0.0 mi
  • World War II Tank: 3.0 mi
  • New England Sky Screamer: 4.6 mi
  • Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: 7.1 mi
Waterfalls: 25
  • Cascade: 14.9 mi
  • Lost Acres Falls: 16.0 mi
  • Waterfall: 16.7 mi
  • Carpenter's Falls: 17.5 mi
  • Hockanum Falls: 17.9 mi
Cliffs: 15
Beaches: 14
Springs: 5
  • Rd: 7.1 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 7.2 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 7.2 mi
  • Big Spring: 23.7 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 24.7 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Picnic sites: 2
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 2.6 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 4.5 mi
Rest areas: 2
  • West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 20.8 mi
  • West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 20.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.5 miles of Yertle Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount TomNNW 342°363 m10.0 mi
DeadtopNNW 344°333 m10.7 mi
Rattlesnake HillESE 118°323 m10.4 mi
Pine MountainESE 114°319 m10.3 mi
Whiting PeakNNW 346°305 m11.1 mi
Bald MountainESE 116°303 m10.6 mi
Perkins MountainESE 121°298 m10.6 mi
Mount ChapinE 82°281 m9.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1519:4820:30
September equinox06:3818:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3716:22

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252836485967737163514131
Precip in2.72.63.44.13.74.44.23.74.64.73.53.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westfield Barnes Muni AP, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly35 obs
  • bittersweet nightshade29 obs
  • common milkweed28 obs
  • Groundhog20 obs
  • tree-of-heaven20 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel19 obs
  • Red Clover18 obs
  • Greater celandine18 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/1336062771

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