Paramount Cortland Community Garden
Paramount Cortland Community Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 24 m. Mount Wilson stands 1,737 m to the north-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Hollydale Regional Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 11 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- LA Compost
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 11.2 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Hollydale Regional Park: 0.5 mi
- Hollydale Community Park: 0.6 mi
- Spane Park: 0.7 mi
- Gardendale Tot Lot: 0.8 mi
- Yvonne Burke-John D. Ham Park: 0.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Garden: 1.6 mi
- Heart of Watts Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- community gardens: 4.5 mi
- Community Gardens: 4.5 mi
- GrowGood Urban Farm: 5.2 mi
- Paramount Veterans Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Paramount Mayors on Stone Plaques: 2.1 mi
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Hispanic American Veterans Memorial: 4.2 mi
- Columbia Memorial Space Center: 2.4 mi
- Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg Family Home: 3.4 mi
- South Gate Museum & Art Gallery: 3.4 mi
- Downey Art Museum: 3.5 mi
- McDonald's Museum: 4.0 mi
- Apollo Boilerplate 12: 2.4 mi
- Little India: 6.3 mi
- Citadel Outlets: 6.7 mi
- Porsche Experience Center Los Angeles: 7.4 mi
- K1 Speed Indoor Karting: 7.6 mi
- Untitled: 2.6 mi
- Endless Miles: 3.8 mi
- Work in Progress: 4.0 mi
- McDonald's Sign: 4.1 mi
- Ronald E McNair Elementary School Murals: 4.2 mi
- Dominguez Nature Preserve: 6.3 mi
- Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve: 7.3 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 9.9 mi
- Bosque del Rio Hondo Natural Area: 10.1 mi
- Marine Stadium Reserve: 10.3 mi
- Signal Hill: 7.8 mi
- Montebello Hills: 9.3 mi
- Whittier Hill: 11.1 mi
- Workman Hill: 11.2 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 11.4 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 10.9 mi
- Mother's Beach: 11.2 mi
- Burke-Roche Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Day Camp: 12.8 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 16.2 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 16.3 mi
- Washout Falls: 16.3 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 16.3 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 17.1 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 10.4 mi
- Mother's Beach: 11.1 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 13.7 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 14.4 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 15.3 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 16.3 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 23.9 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 18.7 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 22.8 mi
- Spa Palace: 11.3 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 15.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.5 miles of Paramount Cortland Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Wilson | NNE 17° | 1,737 m | 22.5 mi |
| Mount Lowe | N 10° | 1,699 m | 22.4 mi |
| Mount Harvard | NNE 17° | 1,640 m | 21.7 mi |
| Mount Yale | NNE 17° | 1,451 m | 21.1 mi |
| Muir Peak | N 11° | 1,427 m | 21.3 mi |
| Brown Mountain | N 4° | 1,363 m | 22.4 mi |
| Clamshell Peak | NNE 27° | 1,338 m | 22.4 mi |
| West Fuji | N 11° | 1,121.969 m | 20.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 57 | 58 | 60 | 63 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 74 | 73 | 68 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Long Beach Daugherty AP, 7 mi away.
- Northern Mockingbird55 obs
- House Sparrow53 obs
- Monarch52 obs
- Garden Snail50 obs
- Black Phoebe47 obs
- Western Fence Lizard40 obs
- Western Honey Bee40 obs
- Bold Jumping Spider40 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.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1306683490
Day trips start here
- Lynwood · 2 mi
- Compton · 3 mi
- Downey · 3 mi
- Gateway Cities · 3 mi
- Bellflower · 4 mi
- Lakewood · 5 mi
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