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YMCA Teaching Garden

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YMCA Teaching Garden is a garden in Oklahoma, at a modelled elevation of 303 m. Round Mound stands 311 m to the east-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Dan Moran Park, a park 0.7 miles away. Osage Nation Heritage Trail Byway passes 2.1 miles off. 82 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.

What to expect

Access
Permitted

How to reach it

Coordinates36.70207, -97.10804

82 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 54
  • Dan Moran Park: 0.7 mi
  • Sunset Park: 1.0 mi
  • Liberty Park: 1.5 mi
  • Johnson Park: 1.5 mi
  • Pecan Park: 1.7 mi
Historic sites: 10
  • IOOF Cemetary: 0.8 mi
  • War Memorial Park: 1.8 mi
  • McKinley School Memorial: 1.9 mi
  • Ponca Chief Standing Bear Statue: 2.3 mi
  • Pioneer Woman Monument: 2.4 mi
Museums: 8
  • Conoco Museum: 1.1 mi
  • Marland's Grand Home: 2.0 mi
  • Standing Bear Museum: 2.2 mi
  • Pioneer Woman Museum: 2.5 mi
  • A.D. Buck NOC History Museum: 10.5 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Peaks: 2
Attractions: 1
  • Cann Memorial Gardens: 2.4 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Lake Ponca Beach: 5.0 mi
Picnic sites: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Round MoundESE 114°311 m22.5 mi
Spindle Top HillSSW 193°305 m9.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3319:0619:41
June solstice06:1120:1320:51
September equinox07:1718:5319:27
December solstice07:3816:3617:17

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F364050596878828173614838
Precip in1.01.12.23.85.14.73.73.32.73.11.61.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ponca City Muni AP, 2 mi away.

  • Lined Snake2 obs
  • Western Honey Bee2 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider2 obs
  • bird's-eye speedwell2 obs
  • common star-of-Bethlehem2 obs
  • Woodhouse's Toad2 obs
  • American pumpkin2 obs
  • Spotted Beet Webworm Moth2 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/602194938

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