Historic site · California
Uncle Jim’s Cabin
Uncle Jim’s Cabin is a historic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Sun Flowers, a artwork 0.1 miles away.
What the record says
- Material
- metal
How to reach it
Coordinates37.42525, -122.14554
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Stanford/Palo Alto Community Playing Fields: 0.2 mi
- Mayfield Park: 0.2 mi
- Cameron Park: 0.3 mi
- Jerry Bowden Park: 0.4 mi
- Peers Park: 0.5 mi
Museums
- Hoover Tower: 1.2 mi
- Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo: 1.3 mi
- Palo Alto History Museum: 1.4 mi
- Museum of American Heritage: 1.5 mi
- Anderson Collection at Stanford University: 1.5 mi
Attractions
- Hewlett Packard's Garage: 1.3 mi
- Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 1.7 mi
- Stem Cell Research information placards: 1.8 mi
- Tower Well structure (historic): 1.9 mi
- El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 2.0 mi
Peaks
- Coyote Hill: 1.9 mi
- Sand Hill: 4.1 mi
- Vista Hill: 4.5 mi
- Madera Point: 4.7 mi
- Elephant Mountain: 5.3 mi
Nature reserves
- Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 4.4 mi
- Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: 5.0 mi
- Juan Prado Mesa Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Hidden Villa: 5.8 mi
Historic sites
- Nikola Tesla: 0.2 mi
- In Memory of Glenn S. “Pop” Warner: 1.0 mi
- In Memory of Charles A. “Chuck” Taylor: 1.0 mi
- Rafael Soto Home Site: 1.0 mi
- Indian Mounds: 1.0 mi
Artworks: 57
- Sun Flowers: 0.1 mi
- Aeolis 10: 0.1 mi
- Bloom: 0.3 mi
- Monument to Change as a Verb: 0.9 mi
- Reclining Figure: 1.0 mi
Gardens: 57
- EV North Garden: 0.4 mi
- EVGR Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- EV South Garden: 0.8 mi
- El Carmelo School Native Habitat Garden: 0.9 mi
- Bol Park Native Plant Garden: 0.9 mi
Picnic sites: 55
- Steve and Loli Sy Oak Grove: 0.8 mi
- Oak Grove: 1.1 mi
- East Meadow Individual Area: 1.6 mi
- East Meadow Group Area: 1.6 mi
- EBF Picnic: 1.6 mi
Beaches: 45
- Niles beach: 13.1 mi
- Tunitas Beach: 14.8 mi
- Martins Beach: 14.9 mi
- Coyote Point Beach: 15.1 mi
- Aardvark Beach: 15.2 mi
Ghost towns: 14
- Drawbridge: 9.8 mi
- Stokes Landing: 11.7 mi
- Purissima: 15.0 mi
- Russell City: 15.7 mi
- Lexington: 18.0 mi
Waterfalls: 13
- Peter's Creek Falls: 9.4 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 10.4 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 12.9 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 13.9 mi
- Butano Falls: 15.8 mi
Springs: 9
- Spring source: 7.8 mi
- Summit Spring: 8.9 mi
- Travertine Springs: 12.8 mi
- Congress Springs: 13.4 mi
- McClure Spring: 15.7 mi
Cliffs: 7
- Graffiti Rock: 11.0 mi
- Underworld Rock: 14.0 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 14.0 mi
- Chab: 21.2 mi
- The Bluff: 21.8 mi
Rest areas: 1
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.1 miles of Uncle Jim’s Cabin. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | SSE 168° | 985 m | 14.3 mi |
| Castle Rock | SSE 169° | 979 m | 13.9 mi |
| The Peak | SSE 164° | 917 m | 14.8 mi |
| Lookout Tower | S 171° | 892 m | 12.5 mi |
| Goat Rock | S 171° | 890 m | 13.8 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | SSE 164° | 880 m | 15.1 mi |
| Summit Rock | SSE 169° | 878 m | 13.0 mi |
| Varian Peak | S 173° | 873 m | 13.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 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: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 51 | 55 | 57 | 61 | 66 | 68 | 67 | 66 | 61 | 53 | 48 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palo Alto, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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