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Regional Parks Botanic Garden

Regional Parks Botanic Garden from directly overhead

Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 272 m. Rock 2 stands 617 m to the east-southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Santa Lucia Section, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away.

What to expect

Access
Yes
Fee
No

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates37.89338, -122.24299

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Santa Lucia Section: 0.0 mi
  • Valley-Foothill Section: 0.0 mi
  • Southern California Desert Section: 0.0 mi
  • Sea Bluff Section: 0.0 mi
  • Franciscan Section: 0.0 mi
Parks
  • Charles Lee Tilden Regional Park: 0.1 mi
  • Crescent Park: 0.6 mi
  • Grizzly Peak Park: 0.7 mi
  • Terrace View Park: 0.8 mi
  • Glendale - La Loma Park: 0.9 mi
Picnic sites
  • Island: 0.2 mi
  • Mineral Springs Picnic Area: 0.5 mi
  • Padre: 0.5 mi
  • Arroyo: 0.6 mi
  • Spillway: 0.6 mi
Artworks
Attractions
Peaks
Museums
Beaches: 34
Springs: 25
Waterfalls: 15
Ghost towns: 12
Cliffs: 9
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Stop: 15.1 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Bird Island Arch: 16.7 mi
Hot springs: 1
  • Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 21.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.9 miles of Regional Parks Botanic Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rock 2ESE 119°617 m11.3 mi
Vollmer PeakESE 121°581 m1.3 mi
Las Trampas PeakESE 113°557 m10.6 mi
Vail PeakESE 114°545 m11.4 mi
Chaparral PeakSE 134°540 m1.5 mi
Grizzly PeakSSE 147°531 m0.9 mi
Round TopSE 137°531 m4.1 mi
Eagle PeakESE 114°524 m11.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4819:5620:35
September equinox06:5818:3319:08
December solstice07:2216:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515355576063646465635651
Precip in4.85.13.81.80.80.30.00.10.11.22.75.3

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

  • Eastern Fox Squirrel1,595 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard1,260 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco996 obs
  • Wild Turkey909 obs
  • Pipevine Swallowtail813 obs
  • Button's Banana Slug773 obs
  • Mule Deer695 obs
  • red-cage fungus660 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/388176875

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