Cerritos Veterans Memorial
Cerritos Veterans Memorial is a historic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 16 m. Mount Yale stands 1,451 m to the north, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Illuminations, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 17 miles off.
The story
Veterans memorial located in California, U.S.A.
Wikidata Q5064837, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 2006-11
- Material
- stainless_steel;granite
How to reach it
- 17.1 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Heritage Park: 0.3 mi
- Loma Park: 0.4 mi
- Pat Nixon Park: 0.6 mi
- Brookhaven Park: 0.7 mi
- Saddleback Park: 0.7 mi
- Little India: 1.0 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Cypress: 2.4 mi
- Coast Rider: 3.9 mi
- Sky Cabin: 3.9 mi
- Wipeout: 3.9 mi
- Hargitt House Museum: 2.2 mi
- Carpenter House Museum: 2.9 mi
- Sproul Museum: 2.9 mi
- Western Trails Museum: 4.0 mi
- Los Alamitos Museum: 4.4 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 5.7 mi
- Signal Hill: 7.3 mi
- Landing Hill: 8.3 mi
- Cascade Peak: 9.0 mi
- Big Thunder Mountain: 9.1 mi
- Tribute to Public Safety: 0.1 mi
- Aeroméxico Flight 498 & Piper PA-28 (08.31.1986): 0.1 mi
- Artesia Vets Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Hawaiian Gardens Veterans Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Norwalk Square: 2.7 mi
- Illuminations: 0.0 mi
- Dolphins: 0.1 mi
- Amaryllis: 0.1 mi
- Dancer: 0.1 mi
- Strength of the Maker: 0.1 mi
- Cerritos Sculpture Garden: 0.1 mi
- Upper Campus Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- Long Beach Community Gardens: 4.2 mi
- Prisk Native Garden: 5.5 mi
- 5th Grade Garden: 5.8 mi
- Robert E. Ward Nature Preserve: 7.2 mi
- Marine Stadium Reserve: 7.7 mi
- Jack Dunster Marine Biological Reserve: 7.8 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 8.3 mi
- Bosque del Rio Hondo Natural Area: 11.3 mi
- Mother's Beach: 8.1 mi
- Disneyland Resort Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
- Hidden Valley: 11.3 mi
- Creekside: 11.4 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 11.6 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 9.1 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 9.2 mi
- Washout Falls: 9.2 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 9.2 mi
- Historic Dam: 17.1 mi
- Mother's Beach: 8.1 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 9.3 mi
- Bolsa Chica State Beach: 11.9 mi
- Huntington City Beach: 15.3 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 16.5 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 17.3 mi
- McDermont Spring: 19.1 mi
- Tomato Spring: 23.5 mi
- Dripping Springs: 23.9 mi
- Horsetrough Spring: 24.1 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 17.2 mi
- Spa Palace: 17.6 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 18.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.7 miles of Cerritos Veterans Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Yale | N 0° | 1,451 m | 23.4 mi |
| Clamshell Peak | N 9° | 1,338 m | 23.5 mi |
| Mount Bliss | NNE 16° | 1,121 m | 22.9 mi |
| Jones Peak | N 2° | 1,029 m | 22.1 mi |
| Lookout Point | N 2° | 987 m | 22.9 mi |
| Sierra Peak | E 93° | 928 m | 23.6 mi |
| Flint Peak | NNW 340° | 576 m | 21.9 mi |
| Cerro Negro | NNW 340° | 575 m | 23.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:30 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:50 |
| 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 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 67 | 71 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fullerton Muni AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/12174008848
Day trips start here
- Artesia · 1 mi
- Cerritos · 1 mi
- Bellflower · 3 mi
- Norwalk · 3 mi
- Buena Park · 4 mi
- Cypress · 4 mi
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