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Meditation Garden

Meditation Garden from directly overhead

Meditation Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 367 m. Messenger Peak stands 1,833 m to the east, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Duane R. Harte Park at River Village, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 29 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

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Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates34.42202, -118.52242

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Duane R. Harte Park at River Village: 0.0 mi
  • River Village Community Pool: 0.2 mi
  • Central Park: 0.6 mi
  • River Village Trailhead: 0.8 mi
  • Bridgeport Park: 1.5 mi
Gardens
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
  • X2: 4.0 mi
  • Bonzai Pipelines: 4.1 mi
  • Black Snake Summit: 4.1 mi
  • Taboo Tower: 4.1 mi
  • Lightning Falls: 4.1 mi
Peaks
Museums: 57
  • William S. Hart Ranch House: 3.2 mi
  • Pardee House: 3.2 mi
  • Bunkhouse: 3.2 mi
  • Heritage Junction Historic Park: 3.3 mi
  • William S. Hart Museum: 3.3 mi
Springs: 48
Picnic sites: 42
  • Tumbleweeds: 3.1 mi
  • Wagon Tracks: 3.2 mi
  • Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
  • Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
  • Paradise Picnic Pavilion: 4.2 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Whitney Canyon Waterfalls: 4.5 mi
  • Trail Canyon Falls: 16.8 mi
  • Santa Ynez Falls: 23.0 mi
  • Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 23.2 mi
  • Royal Falls: 23.8 mi
Cliffs: 4
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 9.1 mi
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 9.2 mi
  • Porter Ranch Palisades: 9.3 mi
  • Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 23.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Natural arches: 1
  • Coba Arch: 21.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.3 miles of Meditation Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Messenger PeakE 99°1,833 m18.7 mi
Burnt PeakN 350°1,761 m18.3 mi
Iron MountainESE 107°1,717.5 m17.5 mi
Sawmill MountainN 353°1,672 m18.9 mi
Little Burnt PeakN 351°1,660 m18.7 mi
Condor PeakESE 111°1,658 m18.5 mi
Sawtooth MountainN 354°1,577 m16.6 mi
Mount McDillNE 55°1,576 m17.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3319:06
June solstice05:4319:3320:10
September equinox06:4318:1918:52
December solstice06:5816:1016:48

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555559616772798077696053
Precip in4.24.42.90.80.30.00.00.00.10.50.82.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newhall 5NW, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard72 obs
  • Sacred Datura51 obs
  • Western Toad45 obs
  • Gray Bird Grasshopper44 obs
  • Western Honey Bee41 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog36 obs
  • Seven-spotted Lady Beetle35 obs
  • California Buckwheat35 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/1511791522

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