Drawbridge
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Drawbridge is a historic site in California, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Rose Peak stands 1,163 m to the east-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Butterfly Garden, a garden 2.0 miles away.
The story
Ghost town in the San Francisco Bay.
Wikidata Q5306017, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Butterfly Garden: 2.0 mi
- Gardens at Palmdale: 5.6 mi
- PayPal Garden: 6.8 mi
- Koomei George Kato Memorial Garden: 6.9 mi
- Charles Street Garden: 7.3 mi
- 49ers Museum: 4.3 mi
- Washington Township Museum of Local History: 5.3 mi
- Intel Museum: 5.4 mi
- Moffett Field Historical Society Museum: 5.8 mi
- Moffett Field Model Railroad Club: 5.8 mi
- Flight Deck: 4.7 mi
- Rue Le Dodge: 4.7 mi
- Rip Roaring Rapids: 4.7 mi
- Star Tower: 4.8 mi
- Orbit: 4.8 mi
- Monument Peak Northwest: 5.9 mi
- Mission Peak: 6.0 mi
- Mount Allison: 6.1 mi
- Monument Peak: 6.1 mi
- Monument Peak North: 6.2 mi
- New Chicago Marsh: 2.2 mi
- Ulistac Natural Area: 4.3 mi
- Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 5.6 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 8.3 mi
- Coyote Hills Regional Park: 8.4 mi
- The Steamboat Jenny Lind Disaster: 2.5 mi
- The Port and Town of Alviso: 2.5 mi
- China Camp: 2.6 mi
- Leland Stanford Winery: 4.3 mi
- Irvington Monument: 4.7 mi
- Totem Pole: 2.7 mi
- Methanogen Polyptych: 2.8 mi
- Anything's Possible: 4.3 mi
- Wiggle: 4.4 mi
- C'mon: 4.4 mi
- Linear Park: 2.1 mi
- Alviso Marina County Park: 2.6 mi
- Alviso Park: 2.9 mi
- Alviso Education Center: 3.0 mi
- Lone Tree Creek Park: 3.3 mi
- Baylands Park Picnic area: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Grove: 5.1 mi
- Kennedy Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
- Redwood 1 Area: 5.5 mi
- Redwood 2 Area: 5.5 mi
- McClure Spring: 6.0 mi
- Spring source: 14.7 mi
- Congress Springs: 15.9 mi
- Strommer Spring-Drinking water(must be treated): 16.1 mi
- Eugene Spring: 18.0 mi
- Stokes Landing: 13.0 mi
- Russell City: 15.6 mi
- Lexington: 18.6 mi
- Alma: 19.8 mi
- Holy City: 21.4 mi
- Niles beach: 8.0 mi
- Shadow Cliffs Beach: 15.9 mi
- Del Valle East Beach: 17.1 mi
- Del Valle West Beach: 17.2 mi
- Coyote Point Beach: 21.1 mi
- Tehan Falls: 14.4 mi
- Murietta Falls: 14.9 mi
- Peter's Creek Falls: 16.1 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 16.4 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 18.1 mi
- The Bluff: 12.0 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 14.2 mi
- Del Valle Cliffs: 16.8 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 17.7 mi
- Underworld Rock: 17.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.6 miles of Drawbridge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Peak | ENE 77° | 1,163 m | 14.0 mi |
| Mount Day | ESE 102° | 1,163 m | 15.3 mi |
| Mount Lewis | E 86° | 1,136 m | 16.1 mi |
| Lookout Point | E 79° | 1,051 m | 17.3 mi |
| Antler Point | ESE 112° | 913 m | 15.9 mi |
| Lookout Tower | SSW 206° | 892 m | 16.9 mi |
| Summit Rock | SSW 204° | 878 m | 17.0 mi |
| Black Mountain | SW 223° | 849 m | 14.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:54 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 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 | 50 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 62 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 64 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newark, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/150968983
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