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California Botanic Garden

California Botanic Garden from directly overhead

California Botanic Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 417 m. Mount San Antonio stands 3,068 m to the north-northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Cultivar Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 25 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates34.11342, -117.71531

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Cultivar Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Redwood Grove: 0.0 mi
  • Sage Gallery and Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Native Designs Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Bird and Butterfly Garden: 0.1 mi
Attractions
  • Tongva Village: 0.1 mi
  • Fairplex Garden Railroad: 3.5 mi
  • Bridge to Nowhere: 11.9 mi
  • Galleano Winery: 12.2 mi
  • River Trails Park: 15.0 mi
Artworks
  • Intersections II: 0.1 mi
  • Pomegranate Trees: 0.2 mi
  • Millard Sheets Art Center: 0.6 mi
  • Scripps Graffiti Wall: 0.6 mi
  • Walker Wall: 0.9 mi
Peaks
Parks
Museums
Historic sites
Nature reserves: 58
Picnic sites: 38
  • Site C: 2.2 mi
  • Site A: 2.3 mi
  • Site B: 2.3 mi
  • Site A: 3.3 mi
  • Site B: 3.8 mi
Springs: 33
  • Big Cienega Spring: 6.5 mi
  • Fallen Leaf Spring: 7.3 mi
  • Forked Spruce Spring: 7.7 mi
  • Columbine Spring: 11.0 mi
  • Fern Springs: 11.9 mi
Waterfalls: 27
  • Wolfskill Falls: 4.7 mi
  • Canyon Falls: 8.5 mi
  • San Antonio Falls: 11.9 mi
  • Etiwanda Falls: 12.1 mi
  • Fish Canyon Falls: 12.9 mi
Cliffs: 6
  • Norco Bluffs: 14.6 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 14.6 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 14.6 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 15.1 mi
  • Rock Climbing: 24.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 9.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.9 miles of California Botanic Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount San AntonioNNE 18°3,068 m12.8 mi
West BaldyNNE 16°3,044 m12.5 mi
Pine MountainNNE 16°2,942 m14.4 mi
Dawson PeakNNE 19°2,917 m13.9 mi
Mount HarwoodNNE 21°2,907 m12.8 mi
Telegraph PeakNNE 33°2,713 m12.2 mi
Cucamonga PeakNE 44°2,695 m10.6 mi
Ontario PeakNNE 33°2,640 m9.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:3019:03
June solstice05:4119:2920:06
September equinox06:4018:1618:49
December solstice06:5416:0816:46

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F565660636671767875676054
Precip in2.94.12.11.00.20.10.00.00.01.00.72.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pomona/fairplex, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard1,013 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel340 obs
  • Western Gray Squirrel339 obs
  • California Ground Squirrel322 obs
  • California Towhee306 obs
  • Western Honey Bee289 obs
  • California Scrub-Jay282 obs
  • Common Side-blotched Lizard253 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.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/496398636

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