Drought Demonstration Garden
Drought Demonstration Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 70 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is The Thinker, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- The Thinker: 0.0 mi
- Dancers: 0.3 mi
- Convolute of the Square: 0.6 mi
- Day on the Serengeti: 0.6 mi
- Battesimo di Giovanni Battista a Gesù: 1.8 mi
- Grant Park: 0.3 mi
- The Turf: 0.4 mi
- Montclaire Park: 0.4 mi
- Marymeade Park: 0.6 mi
- Little Rancho Park: 0.9 mi
- Anza Knoll: 1.0 mi
- Hunters Point: 3.6 mi
- Ewing Hill: 4.0 mi
- Maisie's Peak: 4.1 mi
- Elephant Mountain: 4.4 mi
- St. Joseph's College: 1.1 mi
- Veterans: 1.1 mi
- Don Burnett Bicycle-Pedestrian Bridge: 1.6 mi
- Blue and Gold Kennel Club: 1.8 mi
- Arroyo de San Joseph Cupertino: 2.2 mi
- Rancho San Antonio Picnic Area: 1.1 mi
- Bubb Park picnic area: 2.4 mi
- Chestnut Picnic Area: 2.6 mi
- Villa Maria Group Picnic Site: 2.7 mi
- Villa Maria Picnic Area: 2.8 mi
- Ohlone Village: 1.5 mi
- California History Center: 2.2 mi
- Environmental Education Center: 2.2 mi
- Blacksmith Shop: 2.2 mi
- Euphrat Museum of Art: 2.3 mi
- Cuesta Pollinator Habitat: 2.1 mi
- McClellan Ranch Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Nature Center: 2.6 mi
- Charles Street Garden: 2.9 mi
- Foothill Horticulture Garden: 3.1 mi
- Juan Prado Mesa Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Stevens Creek County Park: 3.4 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 3.7 mi
- Fujitsu Planetarium: 2.4 mi
- Plaza del Sol: 3.3 mi
- Plaza del Sol Labyrinth: 3.4 mi
- Lockheed P-3 Orion: 4.7 mi
- Pandemonium Aviaries Sculpture: 5.2 mi
- Niles beach: 16.7 mi
- Tunitas Beach: 17.9 mi
- San Gregorio Private Beach: 18.0 mi
- San Gregorio Beach: 18.1 mi
- Martins Beach: 18.5 mi
- Peter's Creek Falls: 6.3 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 6.3 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 8.3 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 10.3 mi
- Sempervirens Falls: 13.4 mi
- Spring source: 5.2 mi
- Congress Springs: 6.9 mi
- Travertine Springs: 8.1 mi
- Bulls Spring: 12.0 mi
- Summit Spring: 13.9 mi
- Drawbridge: 10.0 mi
- Lexington: 11.3 mi
- Alma: 12.5 mi
- Holy City: 14.0 mi
- Patchen: 14.6 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 4.7 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 8.1 mi
- Underworld Rock: 8.3 mi
- Waddell Bluffs: 20.3 mi
- The Bluff: 20.5 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 20.3 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 20.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.7 miles of Drought Demonstration Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | S 187° | 985 m | 8.4 mi |
| Castle Rock | S 188° | 979 m | 8.1 mi |
| The Peak | S 179° | 917 m | 8.6 mi |
| El Sombroso | SE 142° | 917 m | 14.6 mi |
| Lookout Tower | SSW 196° | 892 m | 7.0 mi |
| Goat Rock | SSW 193° | 890 m | 8.2 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | S 177° | 880 m | 8.9 mi |
| Summit Rock | S 190° | 878 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:54 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
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 | 51 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 64 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moffett FED Airfield, 5 mi away.
- Wild Turkey550 obs
- Mule Deer495 obs
- Western Fence Lizard458 obs
- California Ground Squirrel303 obs
- California buckeye273 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco214 obs
- Acorn Woodpecker179 obs
- Western Bluebird154 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/626559429
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