Patriot
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Patriot is an attraction in California, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Black Mountain stands 1,169 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Celebration Swings, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
Patriot is a floorless roller coaster located in Hometown Square at the California's Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, California, United States. The roller coaster originally opened as Vortex on March 9, 1991. It was a stand-up roller coaster designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard. Vortex last operated as a stand-up coaster on September 5, 2016, and it reopened as Patriot on April 1, 2017. The ride was converted to a sit-down configuration featuring new floorless trains and a new color scheme.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q2534605, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Great America
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Celebration Swings: 0.0 mi
- Flying Eagles: 0.1 mi
- Rue Le Dodge: 0.1 mi
- Delirium: 0.1 mi
- Rip Roaring Rapids: 0.1 mi
- Picnic Grove: 0.3 mi
- Baylands Park Picnic area: 1.6 mi
- Baylands Park Picnic area: 1.7 mi
- Baylands Park Picnic area: 1.8 mi
- Baylands Park Picnic area: 1.8 mi
- Fuller Street Park: 0.5 mi
- Santa Clara Youth Soccer Park: 0.6 mi
- Agnew Park: 0.7 mi
- Fairway Glen Park: 0.9 mi
- Silva Parklet: 0.9 mi
- 49ers Museum: 0.5 mi
- Intel Museum: 0.8 mi
- Triton Museum of Art: 3.0 mi
- Joshua Hendy Iron Works Museum: 3.1 mi
- South Bay Historical Railroad Society: 3.7 mi
- Anything's Possible: 0.5 mi
- Our Lady of Peace: 0.6 mi
- Saint John Paul the Great Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Totem Pole: 2.1 mi
- Lupe the Mammoth: 2.2 mi
- Ulistac Natural Area: 1.1 mi
- New Chicago Marsh: 2.6 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 3.8 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 3.9 mi
- Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 5.5 mi
- China Camp: 2.2 mi
- The Port and Town of Alviso: 2.3 mi
- The Steamboat Jenny Lind Disaster: 2.3 mi
- Jamison-Brown House: 2.9 mi
- Universal Child Statue: 3.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 3.0 mi
- PayPal Garden: 3.1 mi
- Forge Garden: 3.6 mi
- Mission Gardens: 3.8 mi
- Charles Street Garden: 3.9 mi
- Anza Knoll: 7.2 mi
- Dragon Mountain: 8.3 mi
- Monument Peak: 8.5 mi
- Monument Peak Northwest: 8.5 mi
- Hunters Point: 8.6 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 12.9 mi
- Peter's Creek Falls: 12.9 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 13.8 mi
- Murietta Falls: 17.0 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 17.0 mi
- McClure Spring: 9.2 mi
- Congress Springs: 11.4 mi
- Spring source: 11.9 mi
- Travertine Springs: 14.2 mi
- Cherry Springs: 14.8 mi
- Drawbridge: 4.7 mi
- Lexington: 13.9 mi
- Alma: 15.0 mi
- Holy City: 16.6 mi
- Stokes Landing: 16.6 mi
- Niles beach: 12.7 mi
- Del Valle West Beach: 19.8 mi
- Del Valle East Beach: 19.8 mi
- Shadow Cliffs Beach: 20.2 mi
- Coyote Point Beach: 23.5 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 10.0 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 13.4 mi
- Underworld Rock: 13.7 mi
- The Bluff: 13.9 mi
- Del Valle Cliffs: 20.2 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 24.5 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Patriot. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mountain | E 79° | 1,169 m | 15.2 mi |
| Mount Day | E 84° | 1,163 m | 15.0 mi |
| Mount Bielawski | SSW 209° | 985 m | 13.7 mi |
| Castle Rock | SSW 210° | 979 m | 13.5 mi |
| The Peak | SSW 204° | 917 m | 13.4 mi |
| Antler Point | E 95° | 913 m | 14.7 mi |
| Lookout Tower | SW 216° | 892 m | 12.8 mi |
| Goat Rock | SSW 212° | 890 m | 13.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:54 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 16:13 | 16:54 |
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 | 51 | 54 | 57 | 60 | 64 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Jose, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1378422800
Day trips start here
- Aptos · 29 mi
- Capitola · 29 mi
- Santa Cruz · 29 mi
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