Ghost town · California

Stokes Landing

Stokes Landing from directly overhead

Stokes Landing is a ghost town in California, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Monument Peak North stands 800 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, a museum 2.1 miles away.

human settlement in California, United States of America

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Coordinates37.59440, -122.14700

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums

Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center: 2.1 mi
Union City Historical Museum: 3.8 mi
McConaghy House: 5.4 mi
Ardenwood Forge: 6.0 mi
C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology: 6.5 mi

Peaks

Turk Island: 2.8 mi
Red Hill: 4.0 mi
Vista Peak: 6.9 mi
Garin Peak: 6.9 mi
Maderia Hill: 7.2 mi

Parks

Gordon E. Oliver Eden Shores Park: 3.0 mi
Penke Park: 3.4 mi
Alden E. Oliver Sports Park: 3.4 mi
Court House Landing Park: 3.5 mi
Mariner Landing: 3.5 mi

Historic sites

Veterans Memorial: 4.0 mi
Flight 93 Memorial: 4.1 mi
Former SF-37 Nike MIssile IFC (Radar) area: 5.2 mi
Japanese Teahouse: 6.0 mi
Seven Year Sister City Anniversary (Hayward–Funabashi): 6.9 mi

Picnic sites

Hoot Hollow: 4.2 mi
Agua Caliente Picnic Site: 5.3 mi
Patterson Picnic Site: 5.3 mi
Mowry Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
Jarvis Picnic Area: 5.5 mi

Attractions

iFLY Indoor Skydiving: 4.5 mi
Newark Slough Learning Center: 5.8 mi
The Patterson House: 5.9 mi
Meyers Dry Creek Garden: 7.2 mi
Kite Surfing Windsock: 7.6 mi

Artworks

Rising Wave: 8.1 mi
Shalom: 8.6 mi
Truth Is Beauty: 8.8 mi
Soledad O. De Argüello: 8.8 mi
Crisantemos: 8.8 mi

Nature reserves

Gardens57

Coyote Hills Nectar Garden: 4.2 mi
Iris Garden: 7.2 mi
Environmentally Sustainable Garden: 7.6 mi
John Haley Community Garden: 7.9 mi
Belle Haven Community Garden: 8.2 mi

Beaches48

Niles beach: 7.9 mi
Coyote Point Beach: 9.8 mi
Aardvark Beach: 10.2 mi
Sandy Beach: 10.9 mi
Encinal beach: 14.4 mi

Springs20

Eugene Spring: 13.5 mi
Summit Spring: 14.6 mi
McClure Spring: 15.9 mi
Spring source: 19.4 mi
Sulfur Spring: 21.4 mi

Cliffs9

Chab: 9.5 mi
The Devil's Shelf: 14.9 mi
Aramai Point: 19.4 mi
Turtle Rock: 21.8 mi
The Bluff: 22.0 mi

Waterfalls9

Tehan Falls: 12.6 mi
Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 17.1 mi
Peter's Creek Falls: 21.1 mi
Huntington Falls: 21.6 mi
Rainbow Falls: 21.9 mi

Ghost towns4

Russell City: 4.1 mi
Drawbridge: 13.0 mi
Lynn: 15.0 mi
Purissima: 19.8 mi

Lighthouses2

Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 18.8 mi
Quarters A: 18.9 mi

Rest areas1

Crystal Springs Safety Roadside Rest Area: 12.5 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Stokes Landing. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Monument Peak North	ESE 115°	800 m	17.0 mi
Mount Allison	ESE 114°	793 m	16.5 mi
Monument Peak	ESE 116°	776 m	17.2 mi
Monument Peak Northwest	ESE 116°	775 m	16.9 mi
Mission Peak	ESE 111°	761 m	15.6 mi
Morena Sierra	SW 215°	731 m	15.5 mi
Allen Lookout	SSW 210°	708 m	16.5 mi
Skeggs Point	SW 215°	703 m	15.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:13	18:46	19:21
June solstice	05:48	19:55	20:34
September equinox	06:57	18:33	19:07
December solstice	07:21	16:13	16:54

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	51	54	56	58	61	65	66	67	67	64	56	51
Precip in	2.9	3.1	2.4	1.2	0.6	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.8	1.5	3.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hayward AIR Terminal, 5 mi away.

Sources

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