Descanso Gardens
Descanso Gardens is a 150-acre botanical garden located in La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles County, California. It sits on the northern edge of the San Rafael Hills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: DaveofCali, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lanterman House and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Lanterman House
Historic building
Photo: Cbl62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lanterman House is a bungalow-style historic house museum in La Cañada Flintridge, California on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was commissioned by Dr.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Research institute
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. Jet Propulsion Laboratory is situated 2½ miles east of Descanso Gardens.
Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator
Historic site
The Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is a chamber for testing spacecraft in space-like conditions, including extreme cold, high radiation, and near-vacuum pressure. Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is situated 2 miles east of Descanso Gardens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Cañada Flintridge and Altacanyada.
La Cañada Flintridge
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.
La Cañada Flintridge is a city of about 20,000 people at the extreme northwest end of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California.
Altacanyada
Hamlet
La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just La Cañada, is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
La Crescenta-Montrose
Suburb
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.
La Crescenta-Montrose is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The community is bordered by Glendale to the south and west, La Cañada Flintridge to the east, and Angeles National Forest to the north. La Crescenta-Montrose is situated 2½ miles northwest of Descanso Gardens.
Descanso Gardens
- Type: Garden
- Description: Botanical garden in La Cañada Flintridge, California
- Categories: botanical garden and recreation area
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.20098° or 34° 12′ 4″ northLongitude
-118.21214° or 118° 12′ 44″ westElevation
1,299 feet (396 metres)Open location code
85636Q2Q+94OpenStreetMap ID
way 534380200OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=garden
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Descanso Gardens” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Descanso lorategiak”
- Catalan: “jardins Descanso”
- Cebuano: “Descanso Gardens”
- Dutch: “Descanso Gardens”
- Indonesian: “Descanso Gardens”
- Spanish: “Descanso Gardens”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Descanso Gardens”. Photo: DaveofCali, CC BY-SA 3.0.