Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round
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Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round is an attraction in California, at a modelled elevation of 257 m. Rock 2 stands 617 m to the east-southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Carousel, a picnic site less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
The Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round is a menagerie carousel located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley and Oakland, in unincorporated Contra Costa County. It was built by the Herschell-Spillman Company of Tonawanda, New York in 1911, and it is one of the few antique carousels left in the United States. Before arriving at Tilden in 1948, the carousel had seen service at amusement parks in San Bernardino, Ocean Beach, and Los Angeles. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Merry-Go-Round carousel is owned by the East Bay Regional Park District.
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Dates from 1911.
Wikidata Q7802097, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1911
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- Limited
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Carousel: 0.0 mi
- Buckeye: 0.1 mi
- Orchard: 0.1 mi
- Brook: 0.2 mi
- Fern: 0.2 mi
- Zaytuna College Permaculture Garden: 0.3 mi
- Redwood Section: 0.8 mi
- Pacific Rain Forest Section: 0.8 mi
- Canyon: 0.8 mi
- Sierran Section: 0.8 mi
- Crescent Park: 0.4 mi
- Remillard Park: 0.6 mi
- Cragmont Park: 0.7 mi
- Grizzly Peak Park: 0.7 mi
- Dorothy Bolte Park: 0.8 mi
- Little Farm: 0.8 mi
- Rotary Peace Grove: 1.3 mi
- Sather Tower: 2.0 mi
- Metallica Mansion: 2.7 mi
- Omescape: 3.0 mi
- The throne: 1.0 mi
- Cragmont Entry Pillar: 1.0 mi
- Urn: 1.1 mi
- Urn: 1.1 mi
- Poetry Wall: 1.1 mi
- Rose Walk: 1.3 mi
- Site of Napoleon Bonaparte Byrne House: 1.3 mi
- Finnish-American Tercentenary: 1.4 mi
- North Gate: 1.8 mi
- The Bent of The Tau Beta Pi Association - CA Alpha Chapter: 1.9 mi
- Wildcat Peak: 1.3 mi
- Holy Hill: 1.7 mi
- Grizzly Peak: 1.8 mi
- Observatory Hill: 1.8 mi
- Tightwad Hill: 2.0 mi
- Lawrence Hall of Science: 1.6 mi
- Aftel Archive of Curious Scents: 1.6 mi
- Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology: 1.7 mi
- Blake Garden: 1.8 mi
- Berkeley Art Museum - Pacific Film Archive: 2.1 mi
- Ecological Study Area: 2.0 mi
- Grinnell Natural Area: 2.1 mi
- Chaparral Hill: 2.4 mi
- Claremont Canyon: 2.8 mi
- Siesta Valley: 3.1 mi
- Lake Anza Beach: 0.4 mi
- Albany Beach: 3.4 mi
- Lake Temescal Beach: 3.9 mi
- Toll Plaza Beach: 6.2 mi
- Radio Beach: 6.4 mi
- El Polín Spring: 13.1 mi
- El Polín Spring: 13.2 mi
- El Polín Spring: 13.2 mi
- Sulfur Spring: 14.5 mi
- Sulfur Springs: 14.7 mi
- Abrigo Falls: 6.4 mi
- Huntington Falls: 15.0 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 15.1 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 15.2 mi
- Dawn Falls: 16.9 mi
- Lynn: 7.0 mi
- Winehaven: 9.5 mi
- Eckley: 11.0 mi
- Russell City: 18.4 mi
- Ambrose: 19.1 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 6.8 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 12.6 mi
- The Devil's Shelf: 13.3 mi
- Chab: 13.6 mi
- Mitchell Rock: 17.1 mi
- Quarters A: 8.6 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 8.7 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 16.0 mi
- Rest Stop: 15.1 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 16.2 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.7 miles of Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock 2 | ESE 119° | 617 m | 12.2 mi |
| Vollmer Peak | ESE 122° | 581 m | 2.2 mi |
| Las Trampas Peak | ESE 114° | 557 m | 11.4 mi |
| Vail Peak | ESE 115° | 545 m | 12.3 mi |
| Chaparral Peak | SE 131° | 540 m | 2.4 mi |
| Grizzly Peak | SE 136° | 531 m | 1.8 mi |
| Round Top | SE 135° | 531 m | 4.9 mi |
| Eagle Peak | ESE 114° | 524 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:47 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:56 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 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 | 53 | 55 | 57 | 60 | 63 | 64 | 64 | 65 | 63 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 5.1 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Berkeley, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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