Growing Home
Growing Home is an artwork in California, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Lyons Peak stands 1,139 m to the east, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Statue of Tony Gwynn, a artwork 0.2 miles away.
Growing Home tells the history of San Diego. The text is arranged in bands that begin with the oldest prehistory at the top. A marine mollusk grows by adding successive bands of shell to its opening and it always carries its entire history with it. In the
What the record says
- Material
- steel
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Statue of Tony Gwynn: 0.2 mi
- Coming Together: 0.3 mi
- Greyfriars Bobby: 0.4 mi
- Bum: 0.4 mi
- Flame of Friendship: 0.5 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr Promenade: 0.2 mi
- Dog Run @ Fault Line: 0.2 mi
- Fault Line Park: 0.3 mi
- San Diego Bayfront Park: 0.4 mi
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Promenade Park: 0.5 mi
- Sign Welcome to Gaslamp Quarter: 0.3 mi
- San Diego Convention Center: 0.4 mi
- Mistletoe: 0.9 mi
- Little Italy: 1.2 mi
- Little Italy Sign: 1.4 mi
- Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton House: 0.4 mi
- Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton House: 0.4 mi
- San Diego Chinese Historical Museum - Sun Yat Sen Memorial Extension: 0.4 mi
- San Diego Chinese Historical Museum: 0.5 mi
- Villa Montezuma Museum: 0.5 mi
- First Emperor of China: 0.4 mi
- Dream. A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: 0.6 mi
- Ernest Hahn: 0.7 mi
- Alonzo Horton: 0.7 mi
- Pete Wilson: 0.7 mi
- Marston Point: 1.4 mi
- Dictionary Hill: 9.5 mi
- Gobblers Knob: 9.8 mi
- Cowles Mountain: 10.2 mi
- La Jolla Mesa: 10.3 mi
- The Chuang Garden: 0.5 mi
- Phil Swing Memorial Garden: 0.8 mi
- Kate O. Sessions Cactus Garden: 1.5 mi
- Bonsai Exhibit: 1.5 mi
- Zen Garden: 1.6 mi
- Point Loma: 5.8 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 5.9 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 5.9 mi
- Sunset Cliffs: 6.1 mi
- Swordfish Point: 6.2 mi
- North Beach: 2.4 mi
- Coronado Shores Beach: 2.4 mi
- Coronado Beach: 2.5 mi
- Central Beach: 2.5 mi
- North Beach: 2.6 mi
- Silver Strand Natural Preserve: 6.4 mi
- Adobe Falls Ecological Reserve: 7.0 mi
- Northern Wildlife Preserve: 7.3 mi
- Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve: 7.4 mi
- Dictionary Hill County Preserve: 9.5 mi
- Dog Spring: 10.1 mi
- Sweetwater Spring: 10.8 mi
- La Honda Spring: 15.7 mi
- Hubbard Spring: 20.4 mi
- Rock Haven Spring: 22.7 mi
- Africa Rocks Waterfall: 2.1 mi
- Lower Adobe Falls: 7.0 mi
- Adobe Falls: 7.0 mi
- Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 15.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.9 miles of Growing Home. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons Peak | E 91° | 1,139 m | 22.7 mi |
| El Cajon Mountain | NE 53° | 1,112 m | 24.1 mi |
| Lawson Peak | E 87° | 1,099 m | 24.9 mi |
| Otay Mountain | ESE 113° | 1,067 m | 19.6 mi |
| El Capitan | NE 52° | 1,026 m | 23.8 mi |
| Elena Mountain | E 93° | 1,015 m | 24.8 mi |
| Silverdome II | NE 51° | 970.36 m | 23.2 mi |
| Mother Grundy Peak | E 99° | 927 m | 24.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:28 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:24 | 20:00 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:14 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 06:48 | 16:10 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 58 | 59 | 61 | 63 | 65 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Diego Intl AP, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/8713637190
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