Historic site · California
Dwight Crowder Trail Plaque
Dwight Crowder Trail Plaque is a historic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 174 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south-southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Triangle Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away.
What the record says
- Material
- metal
- Inscription
- Dwight Crowder Memorial Trail, 1976
How to reach it
Coordinates37.37239, -122.20745
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Triangle Park: 0.0 mi
- Frog Pond Park: 0.5 mi
- Los Altos Hills Dog Park: 3.2 mi
- Purissima Park: 3.3 mi
- Stanford Hills Park: 3.4 mi
Historic sites
- Casa De Tableta: 1.0 mi
- Foothills Park plaque: 1.6 mi
- Ted Norton's Rock: 2.8 mi
- The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial: 3.0 mi
- The Gill Trail: 3.3 mi
Peaks
- Madera Point: 1.3 mi
- Vista Hill: 1.6 mi
- Windy Hill: 2.2 mi
- Kelly Hill: 2.4 mi
- Mount Melville: 2.5 mi
Nature reserves
- Windy Hill Open Space Preserve: 2.3 mi
- Coal Creek Open Space Preserve (closed area): 2.6 mi
- Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Hidden Villa: 3.4 mi
- Wunderlich County Park: 4.0 mi
Attractions
- Pandemonium Aviaries Sculpture: 2.6 mi
- Stem Cell Research information placards: 4.4 mi
- Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 4.4 mi
- Tower Well structure (historic): 5.5 mi
- El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 5.6 mi
Museums
- Carriage Room Museum: 4.0 mi
- David C. Daniels Nature Center: 4.2 mi
- Hoover Tower: 4.4 mi
- Anderson Collection at Stanford University: 4.7 mi
- Los Altos History Museum: 5.3 mi
Gardens: 58
- Education Garden: 3.0 mi
- Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden: 4.1 mi
- Lane B Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Native Hill (California Native Habitat Garden): 4.3 mi
- EV South Garden: 4.4 mi
Artworks: 58
- Bike Tree: 3.9 mi
- Air Tank Wind Chime: 3.9 mi
- MOCNA, 2018: 4.0 mi
- The Claw: 4.2 mi
- The Falcon: 4.2 mi
Picnic sites: 51
- Orchard Glen: 1.5 mi
- EBF Picnic: 3.7 mi
- Oak Grove: 4.6 mi
- Patriot Corner Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- Steve and Loli Sy Oak Grove: 4.9 mi
Beaches: 43
- Tunitas Beach: 10.7 mi
- San Gregorio Private Beach: 11.1 mi
- Martins Beach: 11.1 mi
- San Gregorio Beach: 11.3 mi
- Whale Bone Beach: 12.2 mi
Ghost towns: 14
- Purissima: 11.7 mi
- Drawbridge: 14.3 mi
- Stokes Landing: 15.7 mi
- Lexington: 17.1 mi
- Alma: 18.3 mi
Waterfalls: 12
- Peter's Creek Falls: 6.1 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 7.4 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 8.6 mi
- Butano Falls: 10.8 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 11.5 mi
Springs: 11
- Spring source: 4.8 mi
- Summit Spring: 6.6 mi
- Travertine Springs: 9.9 mi
- Bulls Spring: 11.9 mi
- Congress Springs: 12.1 mi
Cliffs: 7
- Graffiti Rock: 9.9 mi
- Underworld Rock: 11.8 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 11.9 mi
- Waddell Bluffs: 19.0 mi
- China Ladder: 21.2 mi
Rest areas: 1
Covered bridges: 1
- Felton Covered Bridge: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of Dwight Crowder Trail Plaque. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | SSE 149° | 985 m | 12.1 mi |
| Castle Rock | SSE 148° | 979 m | 11.7 mi |
| The Peak | SE 145° | 917 m | 13.0 mi |
| Lookout Tower | SSE 148° | 892 m | 10.2 mi |
| Goat Rock | SSE 151° | 890 m | 11.4 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | SE 145° | 880 m | 13.3 mi |
| Summit Rock | SSE 147° | 878 m | 10.9 mi |
| Varian Peak | SSE 153° | 873 m | 11.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:47 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:55 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 48 | 50 | 52 | 57 | 64 | 69 | 70 | 68 | 61 | 52 | 47 |
| Precip in | 7.8 | 8.0 | 6.3 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 4.6 | 8.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Skyline Ridge Preserve, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/13512630676
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