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Berkshire Botanical Gardens

Berkshire Botanical Gardens from directly overhead

Berkshire Botanical Gardens is a park in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 254 m. Walling Mountain stands 675 m to the east, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Berkshire Botanical Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 4.4 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
254 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.30286, -73.33483

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Interlaken Park: 0.9 mi
  • Recreation Park: 2.0 mi
  • Bidwell Park: 2.1 mi
  • Dunn Park: 2.9 mi
  • Village School Playground: 3.1 mi
Peaks
  • West Stockbridge Mountain: 1.8 mi
  • Rattlesnake Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Monument Mountain: 2.2 mi
  • Dunbar Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Lauras Tower: 2.7 mi
Historic sites: 46
  • St. Faustina: 1.5 mi
  • St. John Paul II: 1.5 mi
  • St. Francis: 1.6 mi
  • Rostrum: 2.1 mi
  • Butler Seat: 2.1 mi
Museums: 37
Artworks: 27
Waterfalls: 26
  • falls: 7.4 mi
  • Bash Bish Falls: 15.3 mi
  • Lower Falls: 15.4 mi
  • Upper Falls: 15.4 mi
  • High Falls Waterfall: 16.6 mi
Attractions: 13
  • Edith Wharton's Home: 3.4 mi
  • concrete bases: 5.4 mi
  • stone pillar: 5.4 mi
  • balanced rock: 5.5 mi
  • concrete bases: 5.6 mi
Cliffs: 12
  • Devil’s Pulpit: 4.0 mi
  • Kennedy Cliffs: 4.5 mi
  • Clover Mountain: 13.2 mi
  • Corps Wall: 21.1 mi
  • Murdock Wall: 21.1 mi
Gardens: 8
Beaches: 6
  • Adams Point Beach: 8.5 mi
  • Iroquis Waterfront: 13.2 mi
  • County Beach: 16.7 mi
  • Oakdale Beach: 23.0 mi
  • East Beach: 23.9 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Area: 14.0 mi
  • Guilder Pond Picnic area: 14.5 mi
Springs: 1
  • Pond off Chair Factory Road: 9.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Area I-90 (West Bound): 22.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.6 miles of Berkshire Botanical Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Walling MountainE 87°675 m9.1 mi
Becket MountainE 90°663 m9.7 mi
Yokun SeatNNE 12°645 m7.0 mi
Mount WilcoxSSE 149°642 m6.8 mi
Perry PeakNNW 344°631 m8.5 mi
Harvey MountainW 279°627 m4.7 mi
Bald TopENE 75°624 m9.1 mi
October MountainNE 53°598 m7.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:1819:5220:34
September equinox06:4118:1618:53
December solstice07:2015:3916:25

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F222432445665696860483728
Precip in3.53.13.73.74.14.84.54.24.54.73.64.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lenox Dale, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee37 obs
  • Green Frog21 obs
  • Japanese Beetle12 obs
  • Spongy Moth11 obs
  • Goutweed11 obs
  • Western Honey Bee9 obs
  • Ivy-leaved toadflax9 obs
  • purple-flowered raspberry9 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358281336

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