Veterans Memorial Garden
Veterans Memorial Garden is a garden in California, at a modelled elevation of 27 m. Mount Wilson stands 1,737 m to the north-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Wilson School Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 9.9 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Lynwood
- Access
- Yes
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 9.9 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Wilson School Park: 0.4 mi
- Camphor Tree Park: 0.4 mi
- Mark Twain School Park: 1.0 mi
- Yvonne Burke-John D. Ham Park: 1.0 mi
- Los Amigos East Park: 1.0 mi
- Untitled: 1.3 mi
- Endless Miles: 2.3 mi
- Work in Progress: 2.5 mi
- Ronald E McNair Elementary School Murals: 2.9 mi
- Running, Standing, Walking Woman: 4.2 mi
- Paramount Cortland Community Garden: 1.6 mi
- Heart of Watts Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- GrowGood Urban Farm: 4.7 mi
- community gardens: 5.4 mi
- Community Gardens: 5.4 mi
- South Gate Museum & Art Gallery: 2.1 mi
- Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg Family Home: 2.1 mi
- Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum: 3.5 mi
- Columbia Memorial Space Center: 3.8 mi
- Downey Art Museum: 4.0 mi
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Paramount Veterans Memorial: 3.5 mi
- Paramount Mayors on Stone Plaques: 3.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 4.1 mi
- Hispanic American Veterans Memorial: 4.2 mi
- Apollo Boilerplate 12: 3.8 mi
- Citadel Outlets: 6.2 mi
- Porsche Experience Center Los Angeles: 6.9 mi
- K1 Speed Indoor Karting: 7.0 mi
- Falcon 9 Booster B1019: 7.4 mi
- Dominguez Nature Preserve: 5.8 mi
- Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve: 6.5 mi
- Ascot Hills Park: 10.2 mi
- Bosque del Rio Hondo Natural Area: 10.4 mi
- Madrona Marsh Nature Preserve: 10.7 mi
- Signal Hill: 8.9 mi
- Montebello Hills: 9.3 mi
- Flat Point Park: 11.0 mi
- Whittier Hill: 11.9 mi
- Ernest E. Debs: 12.1 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 8.2 mi
- Burke-Roche Picnic Area: 10.9 mi
- Picnic Central: 11.2 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 11.3 mi
- Blue Lagoon: 11.4 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 16.9 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 17.9 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 17.9 mi
- Washout Falls: 17.9 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 18.0 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 11.4 mi
- Mother's Beach: 12.4 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 12.9 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 13.1 mi
- Mother's Beach: 15.3 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 17.0 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 23.6 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 24.1 mi
- Eagle Spring: 24.5 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 16.3 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 23.1 mi
- Spa Palace: 9.9 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 16.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.1 miles of Veterans Memorial Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Wilson | NNE 21° | 1,737 m | 22.1 mi |
| Mount Lowe | NNE 14° | 1,699 m | 21.8 mi |
| Mount Harvard | NNE 21° | 1,640 m | 21.4 mi |
| Mount Yale | NNE 22° | 1,451 m | 20.8 mi |
| Muir Peak | NNE 15° | 1,427 m | 20.8 mi |
| Brown Mountain | N 8° | 1,363 m | 21.7 mi |
| West Fuji | NNE 15° | 1,121.969 m | 20.3 mi |
| Jones Peak | NNE 25° | 1,029 m | 19.9 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 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 65 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hawthorne Muni AP, 8 mi away.
- Eastern Fox Squirrel123 obs
- Black Phoebe71 obs
- Monarch67 obs
- House Sparrow60 obs
- Common Pill Woodlouse56 obs
- Northern Mockingbird53 obs
- Garden Snail50 obs
- Western Honey Bee49 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/1257591314
Day trips start here
- Lynwood · 0 mi
- Compton · 3 mi
- Downey · 4 mi
- Gateway Cities · 4 mi
- Huntington Park · 4 mi
- Bellflower · 6 mi
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