Reid Wildflower Garden
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Reid Wildflower Garden is a nature reserve in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 106 m. Edwards Mountain stands 203 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Hymettus Woods Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Colonial Heritage Byway passes 20 miles off. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 20.5 mi off the Colonial Heritage Byway
- 22.1 mi off the North Durham Country Byway
- 23.8 mi off the Football Road
- 27.4 mi off the Scots-Welsh Heritage Byway
Overlooks nearby
- #44 Racecar · 29 mi
- #12 Racecar · 29 mi
- Historic Grandstand · 29 mi
- Trading Path View · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Hymettus Woods Park: 0.4 mi
- Beaver Dam Park: 0.4 mi
- Ridge Road Park & Pool: 0.5 mi
- House Creek Greenway: 0.7 mi
- House Creek Greenway: 0.7 mi
- Wind Sculpture II: 1.1 mi
- Beam-I (2010): 1.1 mi
- Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky (2003): 1.1 mi
- Crossroads/Trickster I: 1.2 mi
- Gyre: 1.2 mi
- Goodnights Comedy Club: 1.7 mi
- Carousel: 2.1 mi
- Historic Allan Herschell Carousel: 3.9 mi
- North Raleigh Business Center: 4.1 mi
- Walnut Creek Wetland Center: 4.5 mi
- Prairie Ridge Ecostation: 2.1 mi
- Tarbert Gatehouse Trail: 8.0 mi
- Durant Nature Preserve: 8.0 mi
- Tarbert Gatehouse Trail: 8.1 mi
- Lake Wheeler: 8.2 mi
- SOL Garden: 1.5 mi
- Sunflower Field: 2.7 mi
- Hunt Rain Garden: 2.7 mi
- Sun Sprouts: 3.1 mi
- Cary Senior Center Community Garden: 8.5 mi
- Memorial Belltower: 1.8 mi
- Nancy: 2.0 mi
- Lassiter Mill: 2.1 mi
- Raleigh Police Memorial: 2.9 mi
- North Carolina Veterans: 2.9 mi
- East Building: 1.3 mi
- North Carolina Museum of Art: 1.4 mi
- West Building: 1.4 mi
- North Carolina Museum of Art: 1.4 mi
- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Nature Research Center: 2.8 mi
- Green Hill: 8.8 mi
- Adam Mountain: 10.1 mi
- High Hill: 20.6 mi
- Edwards Mountain: 21.0 mi
- Boothe Hill: 21.3 mi
- Fountain Terrace: 2.1 mi
- Blount Room: 3.2 mi
- Hargett Room: 3.2 mi
- Lake Johnson Shelter 4: 3.9 mi
- Youth camp tables, fire pit, wood storage: 6.1 mi
- Crosswinds Beach: 18.3 mi
- White Oak Beach: 19.4 mi
- Poplar Point Beach: 20.0 mi
- Ebenezer Church Beach: 20.7 mi
- Seaforth Beach: 20.7 mi
- ledge off to drainage area: 12.1 mi
- Hollow Rock: 21.9 mi
- Kodak Rock: 23.8 mi
- Little River Falls: 18.3 mi
- Cedar Falls: 22.4 mi
- Moosejaw Falls: 24.3 mi
- Ye Olde Valley Spring: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Reid Wildflower Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwards Mountain | W 277° | 203 m | 21.0 mi |
| Couch Mountain | NW 310° | 193 m | 23.3 mi |
| Nunn Mountain | WNW 296° | 188 m | 23.1 mi |
| McCauley Mount | WNW 284° | 185 m | 24.5 mi |
| Boothe Hill | W 274° | 183 m | 21.3 mi |
| Red Hill | W 263° | 183 m | 23.8 mi |
| Burnett Mountain | W 264° | 183 m | 24.0 mi |
| Lambeth Mountain | W 266° | 177 m | 24.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:53 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 06:00 | 19:57 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:40 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:26 | 17:05 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 44 | 51 | 61 | 69 | 77 | 80 | 79 | 73 | 62 | 52 | 45 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 2.9 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Raleigh State Univ, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/51564148
Day trips start here
- Raleigh · 2 mi
- Research Triangle · 8 mi
- Chapel Hill · 22 mi
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