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Tijuana River Valley Community Garden

Tijuana River Valley Community Garden from directly overhead

Tijuana River Valley Community Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Tecate Peak stands 1,184 m to the east, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Tijuana River Valley Regional Park, a park 0.6 miles away. 34 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The Tijuana River Valley Community Garden is located at the corner of Hollister Street and Sunset Avenue, in the southernmost portion of San Diego, within the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park. The garden contains 210 garden plots, seven quarter-acre plo

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego County
Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates32.55676, -117.08543
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Tijuana River Valley Regional Park: 0.6 mi
  • Border Field State Park: 0.7 mi
  • Berry Park: 0.8 mi
  • Nestor Park: 1.1 mi
  • Plaza Piedras: 1.2 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
  • Montgomery Memorial: 1.8 mi
  • San Ysidro Massacre Memorial: 1.8 mi
  • Chopper, The Navy Seal Dog: 2.3 mi
  • Charlie Keever and Jonathan Sellers: 2.5 mi
  • Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument: 9.1 mi
Attractions
Museums
Peaks: 34
Gardens: 34
Beaches: 22
Cliffs: 19
  • South Rim: 4.1 mi
  • Point Loma: 11.9 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 14.7 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 14.9 mi
  • Sunset Cliffs: 15.4 mi
Nature reserves: 12
Springs: 8
  • Sweetwater Spring: 13.5 mi
  • La Honda Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Hubbard Spring: 16.4 mi
  • Dog Spring: 18.3 mi
  • Lupe Spring: 18.5 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Africa Rocks Waterfall: 13.1 mi
  • Adobe Falls: 15.4 mi
  • Lower Adobe Falls: 15.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tijuana River Valley Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Tecate PeakE 86°1,184 m23.1 mi
Gaskill PeakENE 60°1,157 m24.9 mi
Lyons PeakENE 62°1,139 m21.2 mi
Lawson PeakENE 61°1,099 m24.0 mi
Otay MountainE 79°1,067 m14.3 mi
Elena MountainENE 66°1,015 m22.7 mi
White MountainENE 74°989 m22.2 mi
Barber MountainENE 67°985 m23.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2819:00
June solstice05:4219:2320:00
September equinox06:3718:1418:46
December solstice06:4716:1016:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F575759606265697069656056
Precip in1.72.11.90.60.10.10.30.00.10.40.80.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Imperial Beach Ream FLD NAS, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Song Sparrow544 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird500 obs
  • Western Tiger Swallowtail471 obs
  • Orange-crowned Warbler467 obs
  • Lesser Goldfinch420 obs
  • castor bean387 obs
  • Black Phoebe348 obs
  • Lorquin's Admiral344 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/939551755

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