California Friendly® Demonstration Garden
California Friendly® Demonstration Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 123 m. San Gabriel Peak stands 1,878 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Peace on Earth, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 0.4 miles off.
Southwest Style Garden
What to expect
- Operated by
- Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
- Access
- Yes
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 0.4 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Peace on Earth: 0.0 mi
- The Dance Door: 0.1 mi
- Joseph Scott: 0.1 mi
- Chas' Stainless Steel Mark Thompson's Airplane Parts: 0.3 mi
- Embodied: 0.4 mi
- California Friendly® Demonstration Garden: 0.0 mi
- Fredric Roberts Garden: 0.1 mi
- Blue Ribbon Garden: 0.1 mi
- Blue Ribbon Garden: 0.1 mi
- Flag Garden: 0.3 mi
- Abraham Lincoln: 0.1 mi
- Mosaic Law statue: 0.1 mi
- El Paseo de los Pobladores de Los Angeles: 0.2 mi
- Ukrainian genocide memorial: 0.2 mi
- Christopher Columbus statue: 0.2 mi
- Gallery at REDCAT: 0.2 mi
- Dataland: 0.2 mi
- The Broad Museum: 0.2 mi
- Museum of Contemporary Art: 0.3 mi
- LA Plaza De Culturas Y Artes: 0.5 mi
- Gloria Molina Grand Park: 0.2 mi
- California Plaza Park: 0.3 mi
- Los Angeles City Hall Park: 0.4 mi
- Angels Knoll Park: 0.4 mi
- Ord and Yale Street Park: 0.5 mi
- Angels Flight: 0.4 mi
- Spanish Steps: 0.5 mi
- Skyspace LA: 0.5 mi
- Thien Hau Temple: 0.6 mi
- El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument: 0.6 mi
- Elysian Park: 1.8 mi
- Elyria Canyon Park: 3.5 mi
- Ascot Hills Park: 3.6 mi
- Rose Hill Park: 3.8 mi
- Bird Sanctuary: 5.5 mi
- Maltman peak: 2.7 mi
- Silverlake peak: 2.7 mi
- Micheltorena peak: 2.9 mi
- Flat Point Park: 3.1 mi
- Ronda Vista: 3.4 mi
- Cedar Grove: 4.7 mi
- Joe Klass Water Stop: 5.1 mi
- Sycamore Glen: 5.3 mi
- Crystal Springs Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Park Center: 5.6 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 12.4 mi
- Millard Falls: 12.7 mi
- Eaton Canyon Waterfall: 12.8 mi
- Ribbon Rocks Falls: 12.8 mi
- Moss Grotto Falls: 12.9 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 12.0 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 16.0 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 16.6 mi
- Fascination Spring: 16.8 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 18.5 mi
- Mother's Beach: 13.0 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 14.4 mi
- Palisades Beach: 15.3 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 17.4 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 17.7 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 14.9 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 23.2 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 23.6 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 23.8 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 24.0 mi
- Spa Palace: 1.1 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 24.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.2 miles of California Friendly® Demonstration Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Gabriel Peak | NE 34° | 1,878 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mount Disappointment | NNE 32° | 1,819 m | 15.4 mi |
| Mount Lawlor | NNE 29° | 1,807 m | 16.9 mi |
| Mount Deception | NNE 30° | 1,767 m | 15.3 mi |
| Mount Markham | NE 35° | 1,746 m | 15.1 mi |
| Mount Wilson | NE 43° | 1,737 m | 15.7 mi |
| Occidental Peak | NE 38° | 1,736 m | 15.5 mi |
| Mount Lowe | NE 34° | 1,699 m | 14.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
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 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 75 | 74 | 69 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Angeles Downtown/usc, 3 mi away.
- Red-tailed Hawk656 obs
- Mallard636 obs
- House Sparrow623 obs
- Rock Pigeon536 obs
- American Coot523 obs
- Canada Goose517 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle355 obs
- Black-crowned Night Heron352 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/319143487
Day trips start here
- Los Angeles · 0 mi
- Los Angeles/Downtown · 1 mi
- Los Angeles/Northwest · 2 mi
- Los Angeles/Eastside · 3 mi
- Huntington Park · 5 mi
- Los Angeles/South · 5 mi
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