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Memorial Benches

Memorial Benches from directly overhead

Memorial Benches is a historic site in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 27 m. Dixie Peak stands 1,404 m to the east, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Rescue, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Mountains to Sound Greenway - I-90 passes 0.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1999
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates47.58272, -122.23343

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
  • Rescue: 0.0 mi
  • Reclining Woman: 0.1 mi
  • Duet: 0.2 mi
  • Figures With Basket (a.k.a. The Farmers): 0.2 mi
  • Boy and the Alligator: 0.2 mi
Parks
  • Bicentennial Park: 0.1 mi
  • Mercerdale Park: 0.1 mi
  • Outdoor Sculpture Gallery: 0.3 mi
  • First Hill Park: 0.5 mi
  • Upper Luther Burbank Park: 0.5 mi
Peaks
  • First Hill: 0.4 mi
  • Cherry Hill: 4.3 mi
  • First Hill: 4.5 mi
  • Capitol Hill: 5.0 mi
  • Marshall's Hill: 6.0 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Bradner Gardens Park: 2.9 mi
  • Green Plate Special Community Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Yao Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Stick + Stones Outdoor Hummingbird Planting Garden: 3.2 mi
  • Nova Farm: 3.6 mi
Attractions
Museums
Nature reserves
  • Coal Creek Natural Area: 4.0 mi
  • Tribal Elder Bernice White Place: 5.7 mi
  • Hamm Creek Natural Area: 6.1 mi
  • City of Bellevue Open Space: 6.2 mi
  • Camp Long: 6.8 mi
Beaches: 58
  • Calkins Point: 0.9 mi
  • Mercerwood Shore Club beach: 1.6 mi
  • North Beach: 1.7 mi
  • Mount Baker Beach: 2.5 mi
  • East Harrison Street End: 3.6 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • Picnic Area C: 0.5 mi
  • The Meadow -- Picnic Area B: 0.6 mi
  • Picnic Area A: 0.7 mi
  • Shelter #1: 2.4 mi
  • Shelter 2: 2.5 mi
Waterfalls: 17
  • Waterwall: 3.1 mi
  • North Fork Falls: 5.7 mi
  • Far Country Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Coal Creek Falls: 6.8 mi
  • Doughty Falls: 7.3 mi
Lighthouses: 14
Ghost towns: 9
Cliffs: 8
Springs: 3
  • Ravenna Park Sulfur Spring: 7.0 mi
  • Licton Springs: 9.4 mi
  • Canyon Spring: 24.6 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.6 miles of Memorial Benches. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dixie PeakE 100°1,404 m24.6 mi
Blowdown MountainE 101°1,400 m24.2 mi
Crater Lake PeakE 101°1,326 m23.9 mi
Mount Si / q̓əlbc̓ESE 103°1,254 m23.6 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - Middle PeakESE 113°1,004 m21.7 mi
Rattlesnake Mountain - West PeakESE 112°994.257 m20.8 mi
East Tiger MountainESE 116°913 m14.9 mi
West Tiger #1ESE 114°891 m13.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4119:22
June solstice05:1220:2321:11
September equinox06:5618:2819:08
December solstice07:5515:2816:21

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434447525863676863544642
Precip in5.23.73.92.92.01.20.60.81.43.55.85.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Seattle Boeing FLD, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/10160503793

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