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Mediterranean Diversity Olive Grove

Mediterranean Diversity Olive Grove from directly overhead

Mediterranean Diversity Olive Grove is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 142 m. Reyes Peak stands 2,284 m to the north, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is California Coastal Sage Scrub, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Ventura Botanical Gardens
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates34.28808, -119.29178
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
  • Loma de la Cruz: 0.3 mi
  • Red Mountain: 5.1 mi
  • Twin Peaks: 7.7 mi
  • Rincon Mountain: 9.4 mi
  • Sulphur Mountain: 9.8 mi
Museums: 41
Nature reserves: 37
Historic sites: 30
  • Junipero Serra: 0.3 mi
  • Mission Cross: 0.3 mi
  • Mission Chumash Barracks: 0.6 mi
  • Mission Chumash Barracks: 0.6 mi
  • Mission Chumash Barracks: 0.6 mi
Beaches: 28
  • Little Beach: 2.4 mi
  • Big Beach: 2.9 mi
  • Surfer's Knoll: 3.6 mi
  • Faria Beach: 6.3 mi
  • Mandalay State Beach: 6.4 mi
Artworks: 23
Gardens: 19
Attractions: 15
Springs: 13
  • Sulphur Spring: 13.2 mi
  • Hot Spring: 14.9 mi
  • Bellyache Springs: 15.9 mi
  • Wilsie Spring: 16.1 mi
  • Kerr Spring: 21.9 mi
Waterfalls: 9
  • 33 Falls: 16.8 mi
  • Rose Valley Falls: 17.7 mi
  • Punch Bowl: 17.7 mi
  • Jackson Falls: 18.3 mi
  • White Swift Falls: 19.3 mi
Picnic sites: 8
  • Area 2: 5.0 mi
  • Upper Rose Valley Lake Day Use Area: 18.2 mi
  • Area 4: 18.3 mi
  • Skunk Hollow: 21.9 mi
  • Wildwood Canyon: 22.1 mi
Cliffs: 4
  • Foothill Crag "The Foot": 12.8 mi
  • Topatopa Bluff: 17.4 mi
  • San Ysidro Rock: 22.1 mi
  • Echo Cliffs: 23.7 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Arch Rock: 19.1 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.6 miles of Mediterranean Diversity Olive Grove. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Reyes PeakN 1°2,284 m23.7 mi
Haddock MountainN 7°2,265 m23.4 mi
Thorn PointNNE 23°2,092 m23.9 mi
Hines PeakNE 39°2,041 m19.7 mi
Topatopa BluffNE 36°1,945 m17.9 mi
Topatopa PeakNE 45°1,891 m24.5 mi
Monte AridoNNW 330°1,831 m20.0 mi
Chief PeakNNE 25°1,703 m16.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3619:09
June solstice05:4619:3620:13
September equinox06:4618:2218:55
December solstice07:0016:1316:52

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F565757596164676767656056
Precip in2.93.32.30.70.30.10.00.00.10.50.72.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oxnard Ventura CO AP, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Gull243 obs
  • California Ground Squirrel160 obs
  • Monarch136 obs
  • Garland Daisy124 obs
  • Brown Pelican122 obs
  • beach suncup119 obs
  • Black-bellied Plover117 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard117 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 node/12751876276

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