Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo
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Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Rinconada Park, a park 0.1 miles away.
The story
Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo is located in Palo Alto, California and part of the City of Palo Alto's Community Services Department (CSD). It was founded in 1934 by Josephine O’Hara in the basement of a local elementary school. The small zoo holds approximately 200 species of mostly indigenous wildlife such as bobcats, raccoons, hedgehogs, ducks, bats, snakes and more. The museum has an interactive scientific exhibition that is changed every few years. They offer science classes to local students, over 14,000 students a year.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1934.
Wikidata Q28222817, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Rinconada Park: 0.1 mi
- Bowling Green Park: 0.3 mi
- Eleanor Pardee Park: 0.4 mi
- Scott Park: 0.6 mi
- Heritage Park: 0.7 mi
- Elizabeth Gamble Gardens: 0.3 mi
- Rinconada Garden: 0.4 mi
- Eleanor Pardee Garden: 0.5 mi
- Collective Roots Community Garden: 0.9 mi
- EV North Garden: 1.2 mi
- Professorville: 0.5 mi
- Birthplace of "Silicon Valley": 0.5 mi
- Professorville: 0.6 mi
- Rafael Soto Home Site: 0.7 mi
- Electronics Research Laboratory: 0.7 mi
- Hewlett Packard's Garage: 0.6 mi
- Tower Well structure (historic): 1.3 mi
- El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 1.4 mi
- Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 1.9 mi
- Stem Cell Research information placards: 2.0 mi
- Palo Alto History Museum: 0.7 mi
- Museum of American Heritage: 0.7 mi
- Anderson Collection at Stanford University: 1.6 mi
- Hoover Tower: 1.6 mi
- West Bay Model Railroad Association: 2.1 mi
- The Crows Project: You-Me-We: 0.9 mi
- Poetry Wall: 1.0 mi
- Bloom: 1.0 mi
- Sun Flowers: 1.2 mi
- Aeolis 10: 1.3 mi
- Steve and Loli Sy Oak Grove: 1.2 mi
- Oak Grove: 1.5 mi
- East Meadow Individual Area: 2.1 mi
- East Meadow Group Area: 2.1 mi
- Arbor Group Area: 2.2 mi
- Coyote Hill: 3.1 mi
- Sand Hill: 4.4 mi
- Vista Hill: 5.7 mi
- Madera Point: 5.8 mi
- Eagle Hill: 5.8 mi
- Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 5.1 mi
- Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: 5.6 mi
- Native Plant Preserve (Kite Hill): 6.0 mi
- Juan Prado Mesa Preserve: 6.5 mi
- Niles beach: 12.1 mi
- Coyote Point Beach: 14.2 mi
- Aardvark Beach: 14.4 mi
- Martins Beach: 15.3 mi
- Tunitas Beach: 15.3 mi
- Peter's Creek Falls: 10.7 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 11.7 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 14.1 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 15.2 mi
- Butano Falls: 16.8 mi
- Drawbridge: 9.4 mi
- Stokes Landing: 10.4 mi
- Russell City: 14.5 mi
- Purissima: 15.2 mi
- Lexington: 19.1 mi
- Summit Spring: 9.0 mi
- Summit Spring: 9.0 mi
- Spring source: 9.1 mi
- Travertine Springs: 14.1 mi
- Congress Springs: 14.5 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 12.2 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 15.2 mi
- Underworld Rock: 15.2 mi
- Chab: 19.9 mi
- The Bluff: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.4 miles of Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | S 169° | 985 m | 15.5 mi |
| Castle Rock | S 170° | 979 m | 15.1 mi |
| The Peak | SSE 165° | 917 m | 16.0 mi |
| Lookout Tower | S 172° | 892 m | 13.8 mi |
| Goat Rock | S 172° | 890 m | 15.0 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | SSE 165° | 880 m | 16.3 mi |
| Summit Rock | S 170° | 878 m | 14.2 mi |
| Varian Peak | S 174° | 873 m | 14.8 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, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/231246595
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