Bowling Ball Beach
Bowling Ball Beach is a beach in California, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Sanel Mountain stands 994 m to the east-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Schooner Gulch State Beach, a beach 0.3 miles away. 88 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.
The story
Bowling Ball Beach is a part of Schooner Gulch State Beach, in Mendocino County, California, in the United States. It is named for the spherical sandstone concretions found there at low tide.
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Wikidata Q17398298, joined on its GNIS feature id.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
88 named places within 25 miles
- Eureka Hill: 6.5 mi
- Gualala Mountain: 8.8 mi
- Bald Hill: 9.7 mi
- Little Red Rock Mountain: 11.4 mi
- Buck Peak: 11.9 mi
- Schooner Gulch State Beach: 0.3 mi
- Fish Rock Beach: 6.3 mi
- Cooks Beach: 7.7 mi
- Stoneboro Beach: 8.3 mi
- Sea Pine Beach: 12.9 mi
- Arena Rock Marine Natural Preserve: 8.8 mi
- Gualala Point Regional Park: 10.4 mi
- Del Mar Landing State Marine Reserve: 11.9 mi
- TSRA Marine Preserve: 13.3 mi
- TSRA Marine Preserve: 16.0 mi
- Hitch'n Post: 5.2 mi
- Fish Rocks Arch: 5.9 mi
- Point Arena Arch: 6.1 mi
- White Cap Arch: 14.5 mi
- Devils Pitchfork: 18.2 mi
- Bower Park: 8.5 mi
- Children's Environmental Play Park: 11.2 mi
- One-Eyed Jacks: 13.6 mi
- Native Plant Garden: 15.4 mi
- Faulkner County Park: 16.5 mi
- Fifteen Japanese from Yawatahama: 4.1 mi
- Point Arena Lighthouse: 7.3 mi
- The Bane Bill: 12.7 mi
- Hermit Hut: 17.1 mi
- AIA 25 Year Award: 18.1 mi
- Soda Spring: 12.0 mi
- Summit Spring: 12.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 13.2 mi
- Three Springs: 13.9 mi
- Laurel Spring: 21.7 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 7.3 mi
- Greenwood Visitor Center Museum: 18.2 mi
- Anderson Valley History Museum: 18.3 mi
- B Bryan Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Point Arena Lighthouse: 7.3 mi
- Newgard Bluff: 20.4 mi
- Huckleberry Hollow: 21.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bowling Ball Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanel Mountain | ENE 77° | 994 m | 24.4 mi |
| Casabonne Peak | NE 54° | 930 m | 24.5 mi |
| Grizzly Peak | ENE 71° | 894 m | 21.5 mi |
| Cold Spring Mountain | NE 35° | 815 m | 12.8 mi |
| Buck Peak | ENE 61° | 810 m | 11.9 mi |
| Black Mountain | ESE 104° | 781 m | 21.7 mi |
| Gube Mountain | E 95° | 765 m | 18.4 mi |
| Hawk Butte | ENE 75° | 760 m | 20.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:04 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 16:15 | 16:57 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Mean tidal range 4.05 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station ARENA COVE, CA, 4 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358823486
Day trips start here
- Boonville · 18 mi
- Mendocino County · 20 mi
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