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Rinconada Garden

Rinconada Garden from directly overhead

Rinconada Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Rinconada Park, a park 0.2 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Palo Alto

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.44510, -122.13804
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Gardens
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
  • Hewlett Packard's Garage: 0.9 mi
  • Tower Well structure (historic): 1.6 mi
  • El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 1.8 mi
  • Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter: 1.8 mi
  • Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 2.3 mi
Picnic sites
Peaks
  • Coyote Hill: 3.3 mi
  • Sand Hill: 4.8 mi
  • Vista Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Madera Point: 6.1 mi
  • Eagle Hill: 6.1 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches: 42
Waterfalls: 16
Ghost towns: 11
Springs: 10
  • Spring source: 9.2 mi
  • Summit Spring: 9.4 mi
  • Summit Spring: 9.4 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 14.2 mi
  • Congress Springs: 14.5 mi
Cliffs: 8
  • Graffiti Rock: 12.2 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 15.3 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 15.3 mi
  • Chab: 19.8 mi
  • The Bluff: 21.1 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Rinconada Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount BielawskiS 171°985 m15.5 mi
Castle RockS 171°979 m15.1 mi
The PeakSSE 167°917 m16.0 mi
Lookout TowerS 173°892 m13.8 mi
Goat RockS 174°890 m15.1 mi
Sunnyvale MountainSSE 166°880 m16.3 mi
Summit RockS 171°878 m14.3 mi
Varian PeakS 175°873 m14.9 mi
Conditions

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, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Honey Bee878 obs
  • Monarch531 obs
  • Mallard528 obs
  • Northern Shoveler503 obs
  • Green-winged Teal424 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird418 obs
  • American Avocet390 obs
  • Gadwall362 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.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/23741668

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