Pacific Gray Whale
Pacific Gray Whale is an artwork in California, at a modelled elevation of 42 m. Black Jack Mountain stands 596 m to the south, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Point Vicente Interpretive Center, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 24 miles off. 21 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 2006-02
How to reach it
- 23.8 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Point Vicente Interpretive Center: 0.0 mi
- George F. Canyon Nature Center: 5.2 mi
- Western Museum of Flight: 5.6 mi
- Lomita Railroad Museum: 6.5 mi
- Fort MacArthur Museum: 7.0 mi
- Point Vicente Picnic Area: 0.0 mi
- Point Vicente Park and Civic Center: 0.4 mi
- Pelican Cove Park: 0.4 mi
- Los Verdes Park: 1.1 mi
- Vanderlip Park: 1.2 mi
- Point Vicente Lighthouse: 0.2 mi
- Battery Barnes 240: 0.2 mi
- Point Vicente Park: 0.4 mi
- Portuguese Bend Whaling Station: 3.3 mi
- Marilyn Ryan: 3.7 mi
- Vicente Bluffs Reserve: 0.4 mi
- Three Sisters Reserve: 1.5 mi
- Agua Amarga Reserve: 1.5 mi
- Abalone Cove Ecological Reserve: 1.9 mi
- Abalone Cove Reserve: 2.1 mi
- Wayfarers Chapel: 1.9 mi
- The Graben: 3.2 mi
- Tiger Woods Point: 3.9 mi
- Battleship USS Iowa: 7.7 mi
- SS Lane Victory: 8.0 mi
- Balancing Knowledge: 2.9 mi
- Soller I: 4.5 mi
- Teha: 4.6 mi
- Four Lines Oblique Gyratory- Square: 4.7 mi
- The Duchess of Alba: 4.7 mi
- Pollination Garden: 4.5 mi
- Desert Garden: 4.5 mi
- Rose Garden: 4.5 mi
- Garden of the Senses: 4.6 mi
- South Coast Botanic Garden: 4.7 mi
- Ridgecrest Hill: 2.5 mi
- San Pedro Hill: 4.3 mi
- Signal Hill: 14.7 mi
- Landing Hill: 18.2 mi
- Baldwin Hills: 18.9 mi
- Royal Palms County Beach: 5.2 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 6.0 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 7.7 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 11.5 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 14.1 mi
- Day Camp: 6.2 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 10.5 mi
- Washington Park Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Common Grounds: 16.0 mi
- Mother's Beach: 16.8 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 5.0 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 7.3 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 20.9 mi
- Spa Palace: 23.0 mi
- Temescal Falls: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pacific Gray Whale. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Jack Mountain | S 179° | 596 m | 24.7 mi |
| Green Peak | NNW 342° | 590 m | 24.9 mi |
| Silver Peak | SSW 205° | 550 m | 21.7 mi |
| Goat Peak (High Point) | NNW 343° | 527 m | 23.7 mi |
| Fletcher | S 177° | 454 m | 23.7 mi |
| San Pedro Hill | E 89° | 449 m | 4.3 mi |
| Slide 2 | SSW 206° | 419 m | 22.1 mi |
| Mount Torquemada | SSW 196° | 407.2 m | 22.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:12 | 16:50 |
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 | 57 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 70 | 70 | 66 | 61 | 56 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Torrance AP, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/10220547558
Day trips start here
- Gardena · 12 mi
- Hawthorne · 12 mi
- Compton · 15 mi
- Inglewood · 15 mi
- Long Beach · 15 mi
- Westchester · 15 mi
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