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Castro Valley High Scool Garden

Castro Valley High Scool Garden from directly overhead

Castro Valley High Scool Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 63 m. Mount Diablo stands 1,173 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Adobe Art Center Park, a park 0.5 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Castro Valley High Smart Environment Club
Access
Permitted
Fee
No

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates37.70409, -122.07771
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Peace Sign: 1.2 mi
  • Seven Year Sister City Anniversary (Hayward–Funabashi): 1.8 mi
  • Memorial to the Chinese Laborers: 3.4 mi
  • Holding Tomorrow's Heart: 5.0 mi
  • City of San Leandro Monument: 5.2 mi
Peaks
  • Maderia Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Vista Peak: 4.9 mi
  • Garin Peak: 4.9 mi
  • Wiedemann Hill: 5.1 mi
  • Harlan Hill: 5.6 mi
Museums
  • Hayward Area Historical Society: 1.9 mi
  • Discovery Center: 2.1 mi
  • McConaghy House: 3.3 mi
  • C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology: 3.7 mi
  • Dunsmuir House: 4.4 mi
Picnic sites
Gardens
Attractions
  • Dunsmuir House and Gardens: 4.4 mi
  • Mountain Lion: 4.7 mi
  • Black Bear: 4.7 mi
  • Grizzly Bear: 4.7 mi
  • Jaguar: 4.7 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
Beaches: 29
Springs: 22
  • Eugene Spring: 6.3 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 13.1 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 13.5 mi
  • Sheepherder Spring: 13.5 mi
  • Mineral Spring: 13.6 mi
Ghost towns: 11
Cliffs: 9
  • Chab: 3.4 mi
  • The Devil's Shelf: 6.5 mi
  • Turtle Rock: 13.4 mi
  • Mitchell Rock: 16.4 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 19.2 mi
Waterfalls: 6
Lighthouses: 2
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.6 miles of Castro Valley High Scool Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount DiabloNE 36°1,173 m15.2 mi
Devil's PulpitNE 36°1,110 m15.2 mi
North PeakNE 36°1,084 m16.3 mi
Ransom PointNE 35°1,037 m15.4 mi
Mount OlympiaNE 35°898 m16.6 mi
Eagle PeakNNE 29°722 m15.6 mi
Sunol PeakSE 124°664 m10.3 mi
Oyster PointNE 51°644 m14.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:20
June solstice05:4819:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:2116:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515456586165666767645651
Precip in2.93.12.41.20.60.20.00.10.10.81.53.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hayward AIR Terminal, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard118 obs
  • coast live oak95 obs
  • California poppy95 obs
  • Mallard90 obs
  • Pacific poison oak90 obs
  • California buckeye89 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco82 obs
  • Sun Cup75 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.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/731801619

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