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Friendship Park Community Garden

Friendship Park Community Garden from directly overhead

Friendship Park Community Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Lookout Tower stands 892 m to the south-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Friendship Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
San Mateo County
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.47404, -122.20974
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Friendship Park: 0.0 mi
  • Linden Park: 0.5 mi
  • Fleishman Park: 0.6 mi
  • Hoover Park: 0.7 mi
  • Union Cemetery: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Gardens
Artworks
Peaks
Attractions
  • Public Bocce Court: 2.0 mi
  • Historic Railroad Station: 2.0 mi
  • El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 2.8 mi
  • Tower Well structure (historic): 3.0 mi
  • Stem Cell Research information placards: 3.4 mi
Picnic sites
Nature reserves
Beaches: 45
  • Coyote Point Beach: 10.2 mi
  • Aardvark Beach: 10.4 mi
  • Whale Bone Beach: 12.8 mi
  • Martins Beach: 12.9 mi
  • Cowell Ranch Beach: 12.9 mi
Waterfalls: 16
Springs: 8
  • Summit Spring: 6.3 mi
  • Summit Spring: 6.3 mi
  • Spring source: 11.4 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 16.6 mi
  • Congress Springs: 17.9 mi
Ghost towns: 7
Cliffs: 7
  • Graffiti Rock: 15.6 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 18.2 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 18.3 mi
  • Chab: 18.3 mi
  • Aramai Point: 18.4 mi
Lighthouses: 2
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Friendship Park Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lookout TowerSSE 161°892 m16.7 mi
Goat RockSSE 162°890 m17.9 mi
Summit RockSSE 159°878 m17.2 mi
Varian PeakSSE 163°873 m17.6 mi
Black MountainSSE 163°849 m11.3 mi
Indian RockSSE 159°817 m17.9 mi
Turtle RockSSE 166°812 m14.6 mi
Borel HillS 177°766 m10.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4719:21
June solstice05:4919:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3319:07
December solstice07:2116:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F505255586266696967625449
Precip in3.83.63.01.10.50.20.00.00.10.91.93.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Redwood City, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch170 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco132 obs
  • fennel112 obs
  • House Finch105 obs
  • Black Phoebe104 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel104 obs
  • Western Bluebird100 obs
  • Rock Pigeon98 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/1172207312

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