Point Vicente Park
Point Vicente Park is a historic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 106 m. Black Jack Mountain stands 596 m to the south, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Point Vicente Park and Civic Center, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 24 miles off. 21 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
park in Los Angeles County, California, United States of America
Wikidata Q49544634, matched on coordinates and name (42 m apart).
What the record says
- Material
- metal
How to reach it
- 23.7 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Point Vicente Park and Civic Center: 0.0 mi
- Pelican Cove Park: 0.2 mi
- Point Vicente Picnic Area: 0.4 mi
- Los Verdes Park: 0.8 mi
- Vanderlip Park: 0.8 mi
- Battery Barnes 240: 0.1 mi
- Point Vicente Lighthouse: 0.3 mi
- Portuguese Bend Whaling Station: 3.0 mi
- Marilyn Ryan: 3.3 mi
- Chowinga Indian Village: 4.0 mi
- Pacific Gray Whale: 0.4 mi
- Balancing Knowledge: 2.6 mi
- Soller I: 4.2 mi
- Teha: 4.3 mi
- Four Lines Oblique Gyratory- Square: 4.3 mi
- Point Vicente Interpretive Center: 0.4 mi
- George F. Canyon Nature Center: 4.9 mi
- Western Museum of Flight: 5.3 mi
- Lomita Railroad Museum: 6.2 mi
- Fort MacArthur Museum: 6.7 mi
- Vicente Bluffs Reserve: 0.6 mi
- Three Sisters Reserve: 1.1 mi
- Agua Amarga Reserve: 1.5 mi
- Abalone Cove Ecological Reserve: 1.5 mi
- Abalone Cove Reserve: 1.7 mi
- Wayfarers Chapel: 1.6 mi
- The Graben: 2.9 mi
- Tiger Woods Point: 3.7 mi
- Battleship USS Iowa: 7.3 mi
- SS Lane Victory: 7.7 mi
- Pollination Garden: 4.2 mi
- Desert Garden: 4.2 mi
- Rose Garden: 4.2 mi
- Garden of the Senses: 4.3 mi
- South Coast Botanic Garden: 4.4 mi
- Ridgecrest Hill: 2.2 mi
- San Pedro Hill: 3.9 mi
- Signal Hill: 14.4 mi
- Landing Hill: 17.8 mi
- Baldwin Hills: 18.9 mi
- Royal Palms County Beach: 4.9 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 5.9 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 7.4 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 11.5 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 13.7 mi
- Day Camp: 6.1 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Washington Park Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Common Grounds: 16.0 mi
- Mother's Beach: 16.4 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 21.0 mi
- Torqua Spring: 25.0 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 4.6 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 6.9 mi
- Spa Palace: 22.9 mi
- Temescal Falls: 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Point Vicente Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Jack Mountain | S 179° | 596 m | 24.7 mi |
| Green Peak | NNW 341° | 590 m | 25.0 mi |
| Silver Peak | SSW 206° | 550 m | 21.8 mi |
| Goat Peak (High Point) | NNW 342° | 527 m | 23.8 mi |
| Fletcher | S 178° | 454 m | 23.7 mi |
| San Pedro Hill | E 89° | 449 m | 3.9 mi |
| Slide 2 | SSW 207° | 419 m | 22.2 mi |
| Mount Torquemada | SSW 197° | 407.2 m | 22.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
The recorded facing catches the sunrise.
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:19 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:12 | 16:50 |
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 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 70 | 70 | 66 | 61 | 56 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Torrance AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/11363093599
Day trips start here
- Gardena · 12 mi
- Hawthorne · 12 mi
- Compton · 15 mi
- Inglewood · 15 mi
- Long Beach · 15 mi
- Westchester · 15 mi
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