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Life Lab

Life Lab from directly overhead

Life Lab is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 83 m. Mount Umunhum stands 1,063 m to the southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Rainbow Park, a park 0.6 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Permitted
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates37.29244, -122.00983
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Saratoga Community Garden: 0.9 mi
  • School Garden: 1.0 mi
  • Nature Center: 2.7 mi
  • McClellan Ranch Community Garden: 3.2 mi
  • Hakone Gardens: 3.3 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Peaks
  • Hunters Point: 2.7 mi
  • Nob Hill: 3.0 mi
  • Maisie's Peak: 3.1 mi
  • Anza Knoll: 4.3 mi
  • Table Mountain: 4.6 mi
Attractions
Picnic sites
  • Villa Maria Picnic Area: 3.5 mi
  • Chestnut Picnic Area: 3.6 mi
  • Villa Maria Group Picnic Site: 3.6 mi
  • Cooley: 3.6 mi
  • Baytree Picnic Area: 3.6 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches: 57
Waterfalls: 25
Springs: 20
  • Congress Springs: 4.1 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 8.1 mi
  • Spring source: 8.5 mi
  • Cherry Springs: 8.9 mi
  • Bulls Spring: 12.1 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Graffiti Rock: 3.7 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 6.4 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 6.7 mi
  • Waddell Bluffs: 20.0 mi
  • The Bluff: 20.1 mi
Ghost towns: 13
Covered bridges: 2
Lighthouses: 2
  • Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 22.9 mi
  • Santa Cruz Lighthouse: 23.6 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 23.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Life Lab. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount UmunhumSE 146°1,063 m11.0 mi
Mount ThayerSSE 151°1,061 m10.2 mi
Mount BielawskiSW 224°985 m6.6 mi
Castle RockSW 227°979 m6.5 mi
The PeakSW 214°917 m6.1 mi
El SombrosoSE 145°917 m9.6 mi
Lookout TowerWSW 240°892 m6.3 mi
Goat RockSW 231°890 m7.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4619:20
June solstice05:4919:5420:33
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:1916:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495255586267707068625449
Precip in5.04.93.41.40.50.10.00.00.00.82.04.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Gatos, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard125 obs
  • Monarch107 obs
  • Western Honey Bee103 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird87 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel84 obs
  • House Finch71 obs
  • Mourning Dove69 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco62 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/1393142177

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