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Butterfly Knoll

Butterfly Knoll from directly overhead

Butterfly Knoll is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 459 m. Mount Gleason stands 1,990 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Five Knolls Recreation Center, a park 0.2 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 28 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates34.43211, -118.49971

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Five Knolls Recreation Center: 0.2 mi
  • Discovery Park: 1.1 mi
  • Monterey Community HOA Park: 1.2 mi
  • Central Park: 1.2 mi
  • Plum Canyon HOA Park: 1.3 mi
Gardens
Nature reserves
Artworks
Historic sites
Peaks
  • Cruzan Mesa: 3.9 mi
  • Manzanita Mountain: 4.4 mi
  • Los Pinetos: 5.8 mi
  • May Peak: 6.8 mi
  • Towsley Peak: 7.4 mi
Attractions
  • Bonzai Pipelines: 5.4 mi
  • Black Snake Summit: 5.4 mi
  • Taboo Tower: 5.4 mi
  • X2: 5.4 mi
  • Forgotten Sea: 5.4 mi
Museums: 53
Springs: 47
  • Los Pinetos Spring: 5.9 mi
  • Whisky Spring: 9.4 mi
  • Plum Spring: 11.2 mi
  • Barrel Spring: 11.2 mi
  • Ruby Spring: 11.2 mi
Picnic sites: 41
  • Tumbleweeds: 4.2 mi
  • Wagon Tracks: 4.2 mi
  • Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
  • Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
  • Paradise Picnic Pavilion: 5.5 mi
Waterfalls: 7
Cliffs: 4
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 10.1 mi
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 10.2 mi
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 10.2 mi
  • Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 23.1 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Natural arches: 1
  • Coba Arch: 22.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Butterfly Knoll. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount GleasonESE 102°1,990 m18.8 mi
Messenger PeakESE 102°1,833 m17.5 mi
Burnt PeakNNW 346°1,761 m17.8 mi
Iron MountainESE 110°1,717.5 m16.5 mi
Sawmill MountainN 349°1,672 m18.4 mi
Little Burnt PeakNNW 346°1,660 m18.3 mi
Condor PeakESE 115°1,658 m17.6 mi
Sawtooth MountainN 349°1,577 m16.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3319:06
June solstice05:4319:3320:10
September equinox06:4318:1918:52
December solstice06:5716:1016:48

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555559616772798077696053
Precip in4.24.42.90.80.30.00.00.00.10.50.82.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newhall 5NW, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard57 obs
  • California Buckwheat23 obs
  • Western Honey Bee21 obs
  • black sage20 obs
  • Garden Snail20 obs
  • House Finch19 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk17 obs
  • Monarch17 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1493996752

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