Waterfront Botanical Gardens

Waterfront Botanical Gardens is a garden in Jefferson, Kentucky which is located on Frankfort Avenue. Waterfront Botanical Gardens is situated nearby to the park Butchertown Greenway, as well as near the ruins Heigold House Facade.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Beargrass Creek and David Armstrong Extreme Park.

Beargrass Creek

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Beargrass Creek is the name given to several forks of a creek in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Its watershed is one of the largest in the county, though it is fairly small.

David Armstrong Extreme Park

Park

The David Armstrong Extreme Park, formerly called the Louisville Extreme Park, is a 40,000 square foot public skatepark located near downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States, in the Butchertown neighborhood. David Armstrong Extreme Park is situated 1 mile southwest of Waterfront Botanical Gardens.

Howard Steamboat Museum

Museum

Photo: Bedford, Public domain.

The Howard Steamboat Museum, or the Howard National Steamboat Museum, is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky. Housed in the Howard Family mansion, it features items related to steamboat history and specifically, the Howard Shipyards of Jeffersonville. Howard Steamboat Museum is situated 1 mile north of Waterfront Botanical Gardens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clifton and Jeffersonville.

Clifton

Hamlet

Photo: Angry Aspie, CC BY 3.0.

Clifton is a neighborhood east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, US. Clifton was named because of its hilly location on the Ohio River valley escarpment. Clifton is bounded by I-64, N Ewing Ave, Brownsboro Road, and Mellwood Ave.

Jeffersonville

Photo: Bedford, Public domain.

Jeffersonville, often called "Jeff" by locals, is the county seat of Clark County in Southern Indiana, on the opposite side of the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky and connected to Louisville by the Kennedy, Lincoln, and Lewis and Clark Bridges.

Port Fulton

Hamlet

Photo: Bedford, Public domain.

Port Fulton was a town located two miles up the river from Louisville, within present-day Jeffersonville, Indiana. At its height it stretched from the Ohio River to modern-day 10th Street, and from Crestview to Jefferson/Main Streets.

Waterfront Botanical Gardens

Type: Garden
Address: 1435 Frankfort Avenue, KY 40206
Category: recreation area
Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.26407° or 38° 15′ 51″ north

Longitude

-85.72228° or 85° 43′ 20″ west

Open location code

86CP777H+J3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 817089288

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=garden

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Highlights include Butchertown Greenway and Heigold House Facade.

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