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Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden

Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden from directly overhead

Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 36 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is MOCNA, 2018, a artwork 0.1 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates37.42483, -122.17361

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Parks
Historic sites
Picnic sites
Gardens
Attractions
  • Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 0.5 mi
  • Stem Cell Research information placards: 0.5 mi
  • Tower Well structure (historic): 1.5 mi
  • El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 1.6 mi
  • Hewlett Packard's Garage: 1.6 mi
Peaks
  • Coyote Hill: 2.3 mi
  • Sand Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Madera Point: 4.1 mi
  • Vista Hill: 4.1 mi
  • Eagle Hill: 5.2 mi
Beaches: 47
Waterfalls: 15
Ghost towns: 14
Springs: 10
  • Summit Spring: 7.3 mi
  • Summit Spring: 7.3 mi
  • Spring source: 7.7 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 12.9 mi
  • Congress Springs: 14.0 mi
Cliffs: 7
  • Graffiti Rock: 11.6 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 14.3 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 14.4 mi
  • Chab: 21.3 mi
  • Aramai Point: 21.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.6 miles of Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount BielawskiSSE 162°985 m14.6 mi
Castle RockSSE 163°979 m14.2 mi
The PeakSSE 158°917 m15.3 mi
Lookout TowerSSE 164°892 m12.8 mi
Goat RockSSE 165°890 m14.1 mi
Sunnyvale MountainSSE 158°880 m15.6 mi
Summit RockSSE 162°878 m13.4 mi
Varian PeakSSE 167°873 m13.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4919:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3319:07
December solstice07:2016:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485155576166686766615348
Precip in2.93.22.21.00.40.10.00.00.10.61.62.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palo Alto, 2 mi away.

  • Western Honey Bee840 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard805 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco765 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel567 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk525 obs
  • California Ground Squirrel497 obs
  • Acorn Woodpecker395 obs
  • Monarch393 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/26249820

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