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Santa Cruz Community Orchard

Santa Cruz Community Orchard from directly overhead

Santa Cruz Community Orchard is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Loma Prieta stands 1,154 m to the northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Mike Fox Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 passes 27 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates36.96874, -122.01966

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Mike Fox Park: 0.1 mi
  • Riverside Gardens Park: 0.1 mi
  • Poet's Park: 0.2 mi
  • Raymond Street Park: 0.3 mi
  • Vegetation Zone: 0.3 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
  • Santa Cruz Hostel: 0.3 mi
  • Soldiers & Sailors Statue: 0.7 mi
  • Compass Rose Plaza: 0.7 mi
  • Santa Cruz Bicentennial Monument: 0.7 mi
  • Clock Tower: 0.7 mi
Attractions
Artworks
Picnic sites
  • Aloha Terrace: 0.3 mi
  • Buckeye Picnic Area: 1.4 mi
  • Oak Picnic Area: 1.4 mi
  • Evergreen Picnic Area: 1.4 mi
  • Millennium Circle: 1.4 mi
Peaks
  • Bolcoff Hill: 0.9 mi
  • Horseback Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 1.7 mi
  • La Corona: 2.9 mi
  • Mount Massiah: 4.7 mi
Beaches: 54
Gardens: 40
Museums: 39
Waterfalls: 25
  • Moose Lodge Falls: 4.0 mi
  • Ferndell: 6.2 mi
  • Maple Falls: 8.9 mi
  • Fairy Falls: 9.0 mi
  • Five Finger Falls: 10.4 mi
Springs: 15
  • Dodero Spring: 1.9 mi
  • Horse Trough Spring: 2.7 mi
  • Crystal Springs (private): 2.8 mi
  • Redwood Springs: 6.0 mi
  • Old Growth Spring: 7.3 mi
Cliffs: 12
  • Chrystal Cliff: 0.8 mi
  • Anthony's Bluff: 0.9 mi
  • Upper Quarry: 2.9 mi
  • Upper Quarry: 3.0 mi
  • Capitola Bluffs: 4.0 mi
Ghost towns: 10
Lighthouses: 3
Covered bridges: 2
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 2.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.4 miles of Santa Cruz Community Orchard. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Loma PrietaNE 45°1,154 m13.8 mi
Crystal PeakNE 45°1,097 m14.2 mi
Mount UmunhumNNE 27°1,063 m14.8 mi
Mount ThayerNNE 22°1,061 m14.6 mi
Mount ChualNE 45°1,046 m14.6 mi
Mount BielawskiNNW 347°985 m18.0 mi
Castle RockNNW 347°979 m18.4 mi
El SombrosoNNE 23°917 m15.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4619:20
June solstice05:5019:5320:32
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:1816:1516:56

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F525355586063646565625651
Precip in6.46.14.32.00.90.20.00.00.11.33.26.0

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

Wildlife nearby
  • California Sea Lion1,763 obs
  • Western Gull1,486 obs
  • Opalescent Nudibranch1,038 obs
  • Mallard1,015 obs
  • Monarch800 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk749 obs
  • Brown Pelican737 obs
  • Double-crested Cormorant716 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/775933200

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