Arco
Arco is a historic site in California, at a recorded elevation of 25 m. Mount Harvard stands 1,640 m to the north, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Ruth R. Caruthers Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 15 miles off.
What the record says
- Built
- 1984
- Height
- 5.0 m
- Elevation
- 24.6 m
How to reach it
- 15.1 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Carpenter House Museum: 0.6 mi
- Hargitt House Museum: 3.3 mi
- Columbia Memorial Space Center: 3.4 mi
- Sproul Museum: 3.6 mi
- Hathaway Ranch Museum: 4.8 mi
- Little India: 2.1 mi
- Apollo Boilerplate 12: 3.4 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Cypress: 4.5 mi
- Coast Rider: 6.9 mi
- Surfside Gliders: 6.9 mi
- Signal Hill: 5.7 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 8.3 mi
- Landing Hill: 8.7 mi
- Workman Hill: 10.5 mi
- Whittier Hill: 10.7 mi
- LA County Sheriffs Memorial: 1.8 mi
- airplane monument: 2.2 mi
- Artesia Vets Memorial: 2.3 mi
- Paramount Veterans Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Paramount Mayors on Stone Plaques: 2.7 mi
- Ruth R. Caruthers Park: 0.6 mi
- Library Garden: 0.7 mi
- Port Bellfleur Park: 0.9 mi
- Reservoir Hill Park: 1.0 mi
- John S. Simms Park: 1.1 mi
- Cerritos Sculpture Garden: 2.9 mi
- Paramount Cortland Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- drought tolerant demo garden: 4.8 mi
- Long Beach Community Gardens: 4.9 mi
- Prisk Native Garden: 5.0 mi
- Remembering Walter H. Deubner: 1.6 mi
- painter statue: 2.8 mi
- kids on swing statue: 2.8 mi
- statue of boy looking up: 2.8 mi
- statue of kids on seesaw: 2.8 mi
- Marine Stadium Reserve: 7.3 mi
- Jack Dunster Marine Biological Reserve: 7.7 mi
- Dominguez Nature Preserve: 8.5 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 9.2 mi
- Robert E. Ward Nature Preserve: 10.0 mi
- Mother's Beach: 8.0 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 11.7 mi
- Disneyland Resort Picnic Area: 12.1 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 12.4 mi
- Hidden Valley: 13.2 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 12.1 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 12.2 mi
- Washout Falls: 12.2 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 12.2 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 18.8 mi
- Mother's Beach: 7.9 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 8.2 mi
- Bolsa Chica State Beach: 13.0 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 14.7 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 16.0 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 20.1 mi
- McDermont Spring: 21.9 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 22.9 mi
- Spa Palace: 15.4 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 15.4 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 16.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.7 miles of Arco. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Harvard | N 8° | 1,640 m | 23.7 mi |
| Mount Yale | N 8° | 1,451 m | 23.1 mi |
| Muir Peak | N 2° | 1,427 m | 23.7 mi |
| West Fuji | N 1° | 1,122 m | 23.2 mi |
| Mount Bliss | NNE 24° | 1,121 m | 23.5 mi |
| Jones Peak | N 10° | 1,029 m | 22.0 mi |
| Lookout Point | N 10° | 987 m | 22.7 mi |
| Echo Mountain | N 360° | 968 m | 23.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:30 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:54 | 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 | 57 | 58 | 60 | 63 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 74 | 73 | 68 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Long Beach Daugherty AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/455783095
Day trips start here
- Bellflower · 1 mi
- Artesia · 2 mi
- Lakewood · 2 mi
- Cerritos · 3 mi
- Gateway Cities · 3 mi
- Norwalk · 3 mi
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