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Asticou Azalea Garden

Asticou Azalea Garden from directly overhead

Asticou Azalea Garden is a park in Maine, at a recorded elevation of 22 m. Cadillac Mountain stands 466 m to the northeast, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Thuya Garden, a park 0.4 miles away. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 1.8 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
22 m

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates44.30476, -68.28301

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Thuya Garden: 0.4 mi
  • Seal Harbor Beach: 2.2 mi
  • Suminsby Park: 2.4 mi
  • Charlotte Rhoades Park: 2.5 mi
  • Pemetic Elementary School play area: 2.7 mi
Peaks
Beaches: 39
Cliffs: 22
Gardens: 21
  • Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Heath: 5.4 mi
  • Mountain: 5.4 mi
  • Roadside: 5.4 mi
  • Meadow: 5.4 mi
Historic sites: 19
Museums: 18
Lighthouses: 14
Springs: 8
  • Jesuit Spring: 1.6 mi
  • Birch Spring: 1.7 mi
  • Maple Spring: 2.4 mi
  • Lurvey Spring: 2.5 mi
  • Fern Spring: 3.1 mi
Attractions: 7
  • The Bubble: 2.8 mi
  • High Hopes Lobster Boat: 3.7 mi
  • Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 4.7 mi
  • Thunder Hole: 4.8 mi
  • Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co.: 7.1 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Hadlock Falls: 1.9 mi
  • Man O War Waterfall: 1.9 mi
  • Duck Brook Waterfall: 6.4 mi
  • Ellsworth Falls: 19.7 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 6.3 mi
  • Thompson Island Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
Artworks: 2
  • Baxter The Lobster: 7.0 mi
  • Water Street Mural: 17.7 mi
Natural arches: 2
  • Cathedral Rock: 9.3 mi
  • Double Arch: 24.7 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Long Cove: 15.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 5.4 miles of Asticou Azalea Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cadillac MountainNE 41°466 m4.4 mi
Sargent MountainN 10°419 m2.7 mi
Dorr MountainNE 44°387 m4.8 mi
Pemetic MountainNE 41°380 m2.8 mi
Penobscot MountainNNE 23°360 m2.1 mi
Bernard MountainW 268°326 m4.4 mi
Champlain MountainNE 54°323 m5.4 mi
Dike PeakNE 53°321 m3.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3718:0718:46
June solstice04:5019:3720:21
September equinox06:2117:5418:33
December solstice07:0715:1015:57

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242633445564706962514030
Precip in4.53.84.95.24.54.33.33.44.25.95.95.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Acadia NP, 5 mi away.

  • American Bullfrog167 obs
  • striped maple122 obs
  • northern whitecedar120 obs
  • Tree Lungwort100 obs
  • Monarch93 obs
  • sheep laurel90 obs
  • Northern Red Belt80 obs
  • American Red Squirrel77 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/415376051

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