Park · Iowa
Cedar Valley Aboretum & Botanic Gardens
Cedar Valley Aboretum & Botanic Gardens is a park in Iowa, at a modelled elevation of 279 m. The nearest named place is Master Gardener's Orchard, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Great River Road passes 66 miles off.
How to reach it
Coordinates42.42996, -92.32201
- 66.2 mi off the Great River Road, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Orange School: 1.9 mi
- Lichty Park: 2.1 mi
- Lloyd Randall Park: 2.3 mi
- Deerwood Park: 2.3 mi
- Cedar Terrace Park: 2.3 mi
Nature reserves
- Casebeer Heights Access: 3.2 mi
- Schaefer Natural Area: 4.5 mi
- Greenbelt Lake: 4.8 mi
- Robinson Bird Sanctuary: 5.3 mi
- Katoski Greenbelt: 5.7 mi
Attractions: 27
- Yuta Falls: 0.8 mi
- Matugani: 0.9 mi
- Rokava: 0.9 mi
- Kukui Station: 0.9 mi
- Volkanu: Quest for the Golden Idol: 0.9 mi
Museums: 21
- Grout Museum of History and Science: 4.5 mi
- Rensselaer Russell House Museum: 4.6 mi
- Russell Rensselaer House Museum: 4.6 mi
- National Wrestling Hall Of Fame: 4.7 mi
- Dan Gable Wrestling Museum: 4.7 mi
Gardens: 10
- Master Gardener's Orchard: 0.0 mi
- Children's Garden: 0.0 mi
- Display Garden: 0.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.1 mi
- 4th Street Garden: 4.4 mi
Historic sites: 4
- Leo P. Rooff Memorial: 4.5 mi
- POW Memorial: 4.6 mi
- USS Frank E. Evans D7540: 4.6 mi
- OVERMAN PARK: 9.8 mi
Artworks: 2
- Statue Of Liberty Replica: 4.6 mi
- Dancing St. Francis: 22.1 mi
Cliffs: 1
- 325th Street: 16.1 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:45 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:08 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 15:55 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 24 | 37 | 49 | 62 | 72 | 75 | 72 | 65 | 52 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 5.7 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Waterloo Muni AP, 10 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee8 obs
- compass plant6 obs
- Eastern Cottontail4 obs
- Indiangrass4 obs
- partridge pea4 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk3 obs
- American Robin3 obs
- Western Honey Bee3 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.
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