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City Trees

City Trees from directly overhead

City Trees is a historic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Lookout Tower stands 892 m to the south-southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Stafford Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away.

The record

What the record says

Material
metal
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.48206, -122.24692
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Stafford Park: 0.0 mi
  • Laurie Duncan Park: 0.4 mi
  • Dove Beeger Park: 0.4 mi
  • Wellesley Park: 0.6 mi
  • Little River Park: 0.8 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
Artworks
Gardens
Museums
Attractions
  • Public Bocce Court: 1.8 mi
  • Historic Railroad Station: 4.0 mi
  • El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 4.8 mi
  • Tower Well structure (historic): 5.0 mi
  • Stem Cell Research information placards: 5.2 mi
Picnic sites
Nature reserves
Beaches: 44
Waterfalls: 17
Springs: 11
  • Summit Spring: 5.1 mi
  • Summit Spring: 5.1 mi
  • Spring source: 12.6 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 17.7 mi
  • Congress Springs: 19.4 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Cliffs: 6
  • Aramai Point: 16.3 mi
  • Graffiti Rock: 17.1 mi
  • Chab: 18.4 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 19.5 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 19.6 mi
Lighthouses: 2
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.0 miles of City Trees. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lookout TowerSSE 155°892 m17.9 mi
Black MountainSSE 154°849 m12.6 mi
Turtle RockSSE 159°812 m15.7 mi
Borel HillSSE 167°766 m11.5 mi
Morena SierraSW 214°731 m6.0 mi
Allen LookoutSSW 202°708 m7.1 mi
Skeggs PointSSW 213°703 m5.9 mi
Langley HillS 177°677 m10.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4719:21
June solstice05:4919:5520:34
September equinox06:5818:3319:07
December solstice07:2116:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F505255586266696967625449
Precip in3.83.63.01.10.50.20.00.00.10.91.93.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Redwood City, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/10948223662

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