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Ventura Botanical Gardens

Ventura Botanical Gardens from directly overhead

Ventura Botanical Gardens is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 84 m. Reyes Peak stands 2,284 m to the north, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Chilean Sclerophyllous Forest Plants, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away.

A botanical garden in Ventura, including a collection of native and Mediterranean flora. Completion of the gardens is in progress.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Ventura Botanical Gardens Incorporated
Access
Permitted
Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates34.28590, -119.29207
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Rotary Plaza: 0.1 mi
  • Serra Cross Park: 0.2 mi
  • Downtown Mini Park: 0.4 mi
  • California Street Mini Park: 0.4 mi
  • Kellogg Park: 0.4 mi
Peaks
  • Loma de la Cruz: 0.2 mi
  • Red Mountain: 5.2 mi
  • Twin Peaks: 7.8 mi
  • Rincon Mountain: 9.5 mi
  • Sulphur Mountain: 9.9 mi
Museums: 41
Nature reserves: 37
Historic sites: 30
  • Junipero Serra: 0.3 mi
  • Mission Cross: 0.3 mi
  • Mission Chumash Barracks: 0.5 mi
  • Mission Chumash Barracks: 0.5 mi
  • Mission Chumash Barracks: 0.5 mi
Beaches: 29
  • Little Beach: 2.3 mi
  • Big Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Surfer's Knoll: 3.5 mi
  • Mandalay State Beach: 6.2 mi
  • Faria Beach: 6.3 mi
Artworks: 23
Gardens: 20
Attractions: 15
Springs: 13
  • Sulphur Spring: 13.3 mi
  • Hot Spring: 15.0 mi
  • Bellyache Springs: 16.0 mi
  • Wilsie Spring: 16.2 mi
  • Kerr Spring: 22.1 mi
Waterfalls: 9
  • 33 Falls: 16.9 mi
  • Punch Bowl: 17.8 mi
  • Rose Valley Falls: 17.8 mi
  • Jackson Falls: 18.4 mi
  • White Swift Falls: 19.4 mi
Picnic sites: 8
  • Area 2: 5.1 mi
  • Area 4: 18.3 mi
  • Upper Rose Valley Lake Day Use Area: 18.4 mi
  • Skunk Hollow: 21.9 mi
  • Wildwood Canyon: 22.1 mi
Cliffs: 4
  • Foothill Crag "The Foot": 13.0 mi
  • Topatopa Bluff: 17.5 mi
  • San Ysidro Rock: 22.2 mi
  • Echo Cliffs: 23.7 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Arch Rock: 18.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Reyes PeakN 1°2,284 m23.8 mi
Haddock MountainN 7°2,265 m23.5 mi
Thorn PointNNE 23°2,092 m24.0 mi
Hines PeakNE 38°2,041 m19.8 mi
Topatopa BluffNE 36°1,945 m18.1 mi
Monte AridoNNW 330°1,831 m20.2 mi
Chief PeakNNE 24°1,703 m17.1 mi
Old Man MountainNNW 330°1,688 m18.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3619:09
June solstice05:4619:3620:13
September equinox06:4618:2218:55
December solstice07:0016:1316:52

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F565757596164676767656056
Precip in2.93.32.30.70.30.10.00.00.10.50.72.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oxnard Ventura CO AP, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Gull257 obs
  • California Ground Squirrel161 obs
  • Monarch153 obs
  • Brown Pelican125 obs
  • Garland Daisy124 obs
  • Sanderling120 obs
  • Black-bellied Plover120 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard120 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1377168804

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