Point Vicente Interpretive Center
Point Vicente Interpretive Center is a museum in California, at a recorded elevation of 51 m. Black Jack Mountain stands 596 m to the south, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Point Vicente Picnic Area, 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
cape in Los Angeles County, California, United States
Wikidata Q42296903, matched on coordinates and name (413 m apart).
What the record says
- Height
- 7.8 m
- Elevation
- 50.6 m
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 23.8 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Point Vicente Picnic Area: 0.0 mi
- Point Vicente Park and Civic Center: 0.4 mi
- Pelican Cove Park: 0.4 mi
- Los Verdes Park: 1.1 mi
- Vanderlip Park: 1.2 mi
- Pacific Gray Whale: 0.0 mi
- Balancing Knowledge: 2.9 mi
- Soller I: 4.5 mi
- Teha: 4.6 mi
- Four Lines Oblique Gyratory- Square: 4.7 mi
- Point Vicente Lighthouse: 0.2 mi
- Battery Barnes 240: 0.3 mi
- Point Vicente Park: 0.4 mi
- Portuguese Bend Whaling Station: 3.3 mi
- Marilyn Ryan: 3.7 mi
- Vicente Bluffs Reserve: 0.4 mi
- Three Sisters Reserve: 1.5 mi
- Agua Amarga Reserve: 1.6 mi
- Abalone Cove Ecological Reserve: 1.9 mi
- Abalone Cove Reserve: 2.1 mi
- Wayfarers Chapel: 1.9 mi
- The Graben: 3.2 mi
- Tiger Woods Point: 3.9 mi
- Battleship USS Iowa: 7.7 mi
- SS Lane Victory: 8.0 mi
- Pollination Garden: 4.5 mi
- Desert Garden: 4.5 mi
- Rose Garden: 4.5 mi
- Garden of the Senses: 4.6 mi
- South Coast Botanic Garden: 4.7 mi
- George F. Canyon Nature Center: 5.2 mi
- Western Museum of Flight: 5.6 mi
- Lomita Railroad Museum: 6.5 mi
- Fort MacArthur Museum: 7.0 mi
- Torrance Art Museum: 7.7 mi
- Ridgecrest Hill: 2.5 mi
- San Pedro Hill: 4.3 mi
- Signal Hill: 14.7 mi
- Landing Hill: 18.2 mi
- Baldwin Hills: 18.9 mi
- Royal Palms County Beach: 5.2 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 6.0 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 7.7 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 11.5 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 14.1 mi
- Day Camp: 6.2 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 10.5 mi
- Washington Park Picnic Area: 12.5 mi
- Common Grounds: 16.0 mi
- Mother's Beach: 16.8 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 5.0 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 7.3 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 20.9 mi
- Spa Palace: 23.0 mi
- Temescal Falls: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Point Vicente Interpretive Center. 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 342° | 590 m | 24.9 mi |
| Silver Peak | SSW 205° | 550 m | 21.7 mi |
| Goat Peak (High Point) | NNW 343° | 527 m | 23.7 mi |
| Fletcher | S 177° | 454 m | 23.7 mi |
| San Pedro Hill | E 89° | 449 m | 4.3 mi |
| Slide 2 | SSW 206° | 419 m | 22.1 mi |
| Mount Torquemada | SSW 196° | 407.2 m | 22.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/407323398
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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