Observation Pit
Observation Pit is an attraction in California, at a recorded elevation of 56 m. Mount Deception stands 1,767 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Pit 13, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 6.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Height
- 3.3 m
- Elevation
- 55.6 m
How to reach it
- 6.3 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pit 13: 0.0 mi
- Project 23: 0.1 mi
- Pit 91: 0.1 mi
- Pit 9: 0.1 mi
- Pits 3, 4, 61, 67: 0.1 mi
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 0.0 mi
- Broad Contemporary Art Museum: 0.1 mi
- La Brea Tar Pits and Museum: 0.1 mi
- Academy Museum of Motion Pictures: 0.1 mi
- Petersen Automotive Museum: 0.2 mi
- Smoke: 0.1 mi
- Levitated Mass: 0.1 mi
- Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden: 0.1 mi
- Urban Light: 0.1 mi
- G. Allan Hancock: 0.1 mi
- Hancock Park: 0.1 mi
- Wilshire Green Park: 0.3 mi
- Carthay Circle Park: 0.5 mi
- Lower Carthay Circle Park: 0.6 mi
- Pan Pacific Park: 0.7 mi
- Pleistocene Garden: 0.1 mi
- Funkmeyer New Reality Garden: 1.8 mi
- Rose Garden: 2.8 mi
- Spanish Garden: 2.8 mi
- Italian Rose Garden: 2.8 mi
- Berlin Wall Segments - Wall Project: 0.1 mi
- Edmund D. Edelman: 0.2 mi
- Portolá Trail 1769: 1.0 mi
- Babij Yar Massacre Memorial: 2.0 mi
- WWII Soviet Army Veterans Memorial: 2.1 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.0 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.2 mi
- LADWP Open Space: 3.4 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 3.6 mi
- Hillpark Open Space: 3.8 mi
- Baldwin Hills: 3.5 mi
- Briar Summit: 4.3 mi
- Olive Hill: 4.4 mi
- Maltman peak: 4.8 mi
- Burbank Peak: 5.2 mi
- Lake Side: 3.8 mi
- Garden Grove: 3.8 mi
- Blue Lagoon: 3.9 mi
- Burke-Roche Picnic Area: 4.0 mi
- Picnic Central: 4.0 mi
- Temescal Falls: 10.2 mi
- Santa Ynez Falls: 12.2 mi
- Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 15.7 mi
- Millard Falls: 16.4 mi
- Royal Falls: 16.9 mi
- Mother's Beach: 8.0 mi
- Palisades Beach: 9.3 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 11.2 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 11.3 mi
- Castle Rock Beach: 11.8 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 5.9 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 10.4 mi
- Eagle Spring: 12.3 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 15.8 mi
- Fascination Spring: 15.9 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 17.7 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 18.8 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 19.2 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 19.3 mi
- Malibu Bluffs: 19.8 mi
- Spa Palace: 5.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.1 miles of Observation Pit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Deception | NE 47° | 1,767 m | 18.9 mi |
| Mount Markham | NE 51° | 1,746 m | 19.0 mi |
| Mount Lowe | NE 51° | 1,699 m | 18.5 mi |
| Mount Lukens | NNE 26° | 1,546.6 m | 15.7 mi |
| Condor Point | NNE 22° | 1,538.3 m | 19.1 mi |
| Muir Peak | NE 54° | 1,427 m | 18.0 mi |
| Brown Mountain | NE 45° | 1,363 m | 17.0 mi |
| Hoyt Mountain | NE 36° | 1,346 m | 17.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:32 | 20:09 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:19 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 16:10 | 16:49 |
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 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 75 | 74 | 69 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Angeles Downtown/usc, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/426357435
Day trips start here
- Los Angeles/Wilshire · 2 mi
- West Hollywood · 2 mi
- Beverly Hills · 3 mi
- Los Angeles/Hollywood · 3 mi
- Los Angeles/West · 4 mi
- Culver City · 5 mi
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