Descanso Gardens
Descanso Gardens is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 393 m. Strawberry Peak stands 1,879 m to the northeast, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Rose Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 5.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Customers only
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 5.3 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 8 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Rose Garden: 0.0 mi
- Children's Maze: 0.1 mi
- Natures Table: 0.1 mi
- Wedding Gate: 0.1 mi
- Center Circle: 0.1 mi
- Enchanted Railroad: 0.0 mi
- Letter "H": 3.0 mi
- Egasse Braasch House -- The Good Will Hunting House: 4.0 mi
- Colorado Street Bridge: 4.8 mi
- Bird Sanctuary: 5.1 mi
- Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
- Mayor's Discovery Park: 0.7 mi
- Glenhaven Park: 0.7 mi
- Montrose Community Park: 0.8 mi
- Olberz Park: 0.8 mi
- Cerro Negro: 1.0 mi
- Mount Thom: 2.7 mi
- Tongva Peak: 2.7 mi
- Flint Peak: 2.8 mi
- Wella's Peak: 3.7 mi
- The Birds and Trees of Komitas: 1.3 mi
- Our Community in the Foothills: 2.3 mi
- Student Gallery: 2.7 mi
- Williamson Gallery: 2.7 mi
- We Are All One: 2.8 mi
- Gould Canyon / Lukens Connection: 1.9 mi
- Gould Canyon Trail: 1.9 mi
- Winery Canyon Open Space: 2.0 mi
- Upper Arroyo Seco: 2.2 mi
- Bachman Open Space: 2.3 mi
- JPL Building 186 (Theodore von Kármán Museum and Auditorium): 2.1 mi
- Kidspace Children's Museum: 4.2 mi
- The Gamble House: 4.5 mi
- Pasadena Museum of History: 4.6 mi
- Museum of Neon Art: 4.7 mi
- Center of the Universe: 2.2 mi
- World War 2 Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Brand Family Gravesite: 3.7 mi
- Green Cross: 3.9 mi
- Tuna Canyon Detention Station: 4.1 mi
- Art Center Food Garden: 2.7 mi
- Paul Little: 3.0 mi
- Sycamore Glen: 5.1 mi
- Stonyvale Picnic Area: 5.8 mi
- Switzer Picnic Area: 5.9 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 8.4 mi
- Silk Tassel Spring: 8.6 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 8.7 mi
- Fascination Spring: 8.9 mi
- Yerba Buena Spring: 10.2 mi
- Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 3.1 mi
- Millard Falls: 4.2 mi
- Royal Falls: 4.3 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls: 5.1 mi
- Lower Switzer Falls: 5.1 mi
- Mother's Beach: 20.7 mi
- Palisades Beach: 21.2 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 22.5 mi
- Castle Rock Beach: 23.0 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 23.6 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 5.1 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 19.9 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 20.3 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 20.5 mi
- Spa Palace: 10.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.6 miles of Descanso Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Peak | NE 43° | 1,879 m | 7.7 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | ENE 66° | 1,878 m | 7.1 mi |
| Mount Disappointment | ENE 63° | 1,819 m | 6.9 mi |
| Mount Lawlor | NE 52° | 1,807 m | 7.8 mi |
| Mount Deception | ENE 59° | 1,767 m | 6.5 mi |
| Mount Markham | ENE 69° | 1,746 m | 6.9 mi |
| Mount Wilson | E 80° | 1,737 m | 8.8 mi |
| Occidental Peak | ENE 72° | 1,736 m | 7.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:32 | 20:09 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 16:09 | 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 | 57 | 58 | 61 | 63 | 66 | 71 | 76 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 62 | 56 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pasadena, 5 mi away.
- Western Fence Lizard873 obs
- Mallard807 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco670 obs
- Western Honey Bee561 obs
- California Ground Squirrel524 obs
- Pond Slider481 obs
- Green Heron452 obs
- Desert Cottontail392 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/534380200
Day trips start here
- La Cañada Flintridge · 1 mi
- Glendale · 2 mi
- Pasadena · 5 mi
- Burbank · 7 mi
- South Pasadena · 7 mi
- San Marino · 8 mi
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