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Food Forest

Food Forest from directly overhead

Food Forest is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 33 m. Mount Hood stands 833 m to the northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Pocket Park and Food Forest, a park less than a tenth of a mile away.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates38.32378, -122.69631
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Pocket Park and Food Forest: 0.0 mi
  • Lady Bug Park: 0.2 mi
  • Kotate Park: 0.2 mi
  • Helen Putnam Park: 0.2 mi
  • Veterans Memorial Park: 0.4 mi
Artworks
Peaks
Historic sites: 50
Attractions: 48
  • Santa Rosa Pumpkin Patch: 3.3 mi
  • Duckworth Family Farm: 6.5 mi
  • Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds: 6.7 mi
  • Sturgeons Steam Mill – Historic: 12.7 mi
  • The Patch: 13.3 mi
Nature reserves: 48
Beaches: 46
  • Brazil Beach: 15.4 mi
  • Dillon Beach: 15.9 mi
  • Pelican North Beach: 16.0 mi
  • Elk Fence North Beach: 16.1 mi
  • Wall Beach: 16.1 mi
Gardens: 41
  • Sonoma State University Butterfly Garden: 1.9 mi
  • Rohnert Park Community Organic Garden: 2.2 mi
  • Stony Point Community Garden: 6.9 mi
  • Bayer Garden: 7.0 mi
  • TRACEN Community Gardens: 7.3 mi
Museums: 41
Picnic sites: 20
  • Creekside Picnic Area: 5.8 mi
  • McNear Park: 7.6 mi
  • Helen Putnam: 7.9 mi
  • Birthday Party Area: 9.0 mi
  • Oak Savanna Group Picnic Area: 9.9 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Sonoma Creek Falls: 12.3 mi
  • Haraszthy Falls: 15.2 mi
  • Buck Gulch Falls: 18.9 mi
  • Stairstep Falls: 20.0 mi
  • Linda Falls: 21.1 mi
Cliffs: 6
Natural arches: 4
  • Hole in the Rock: 23.1 mi
  • Keyhole: 24.2 mi
  • Temple: 24.4 mi
  • Arched Rock: 24.5 mi
Springs: 3
  • Hunter Spring: 7.6 mi
  • Crystal Springs: 21.4 mi
  • Rattlesnake Spring: 24.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Food Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount HoodNE 39°833 m12.2 mi
Bald MountainNE 48°832 m13.7 mi
Mount VeederENE 74°817 m14.0 mi
Red MountainNE 49°777 m13.4 mi
Diamond MountainNNE 22°716 m16.1 mi
Mount Saint JohnENE 58°713 m15.0 mi
Sonoma MountainE 90°697 m6.6 mi
Bismark KnobE 80°694 m14.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4819:23
June solstice05:4819:5920:38
September equinox06:5918:3419:09
December solstice07:2516:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485153566064676767625448
Precip in4.85.23.31.70.90.30.00.00.11.32.75.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Petaluma AP, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Raccoon519 obs
  • Mallard216 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco188 obs
  • Mule Deer186 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog173 obs
  • Canada Goose160 obs
  • American Robin150 obs
  • California Towhee133 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/590880300

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