Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 411 m. Mount San Antonio stands 3,068 m to the north-northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is McMillan Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 23 miles off.
The story
The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is a paleontology museum in Claremont, California, that is part of The Webb Schools. It is the only nationally accredited museum on a secondary school campus in the United States. The museum has two circular 4,000 sq. ft. exhibition halls and 20,000 unique annual visitors. The collections number about 140,000 specimens, 95% of which were found by Webb students on fossil-collecting trips called “Peccary Trips,” expeditions usually centered in California, Utah, and Montana. The collections consist primarily of vertebrate, invertebrate, and track fossils and the museum's large track collection is widely recognized as one of the most diverse in the world. The museum has six full-time staff, two of whom are research paleontologists who conduct research with Webb students in a specialized curriculum through The Webb Schools' Science Department.
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Dates from 1968.
Wikidata Q18155072, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1963
What to expect
- Operated by
- The Webb Schools
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 23.3 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- McMillan Park: 0.1 mi
- Griffith Park: 0.5 mi
- Lewis Park: 0.8 mi
- Higginbotham Park: 0.8 mi
- Cahuilla Park: 1.1 mi
- Coastal Sage Scrub: 1.2 mi
- Torrey Pines: 1.2 mi
- Baja California: 1.2 mi
- Pinyon-Juniper Woodland: 1.3 mi
- Blue Fan Palms: 1.3 mi
- Sycamore Canyon Park: 1.2 mi
- Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station: 1.7 mi
- Claremont Hills Wilderness Park: 2.0 mi
- Rodman Arboretum: 2.3 mi
- Big Dalton Canyon Wilderness Park: 5.9 mi
- Intersections II: 1.5 mi
- Pomegranate Trees: 1.6 mi
- Millard Sheets Art Center: 2.0 mi
- Scripps Graffiti Wall: 2.1 mi
- Walker Wall: 2.2 mi
- Indian Hill: 1.5 mi
- Ganesha Park Hill: 3.6 mi
- Potato Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Johnstone Peak: 4.2 mi
- Way Hill: 4.4 mi
- Tongva Village: 1.6 mi
- Fairplex Garden Railroad: 3.2 mi
- Bridge to Nowhere: 11.0 mi
- Galleano Winery: 13.7 mi
- Redwood Grove: 15.5 mi
- Larkin Memorial Sundial: 1.8 mi
- Santa Fe Station Memorial: 2.5 mi
- San Dimas Veterans Monument at Freedom Park: 4.1 mi
- Veterans' Monument Project: 5.3 mi
- Schowalter Rock Pile: 9.2 mi
- Benton Museum of Art: 2.3 mi
- Claremont Lewis Museum of Art: 2.4 mi
- RailGiants Train Museum: 3.3 mi
- Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum: 3.3 mi
- Pacific Railroad Museum: 4.2 mi
- Site C: 3.8 mi
- Site A: 3.8 mi
- Site B: 3.8 mi
- Site A: 4.6 mi
- Site B: 5.2 mi
- Big Cienega Spring: 4.9 mi
- Fallen Leaf Spring: 6.9 mi
- Forked Spruce Spring: 7.5 mi
- Fern Springs: 10.4 mi
- Columbine Spring: 11.3 mi
- Wolfskill Falls: 3.7 mi
- Canyon Falls: 9.1 mi
- Fish Canyon Falls: 11.4 mi
- San Antonio Falls: 11.9 mi
- Etiwanda Falls: 13.1 mi
- Norco Bluffs: 15.9 mi
- Norco Bluffs: 16.0 mi
- Norco Bluffs: 16.0 mi
- Norco Bluffs: 16.5 mi
- La Placita: 23.4 mi
- Politana: 25.0 mi
- Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 9.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.2 miles of Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount San Antonio | NNE 25° | 3,068 m | 12.6 mi |
| West Baldy | NNE 23° | 3,044 m | 12.3 mi |
| Pine Mountain | NNE 22° | 2,942 m | 14.2 mi |
| Dawson Peak | NNE 25° | 2,917 m | 13.7 mi |
| Mount Harwood | NNE 28° | 2,907 m | 12.8 mi |
| Telegraph Peak | NE 40° | 2,713 m | 12.5 mi |
| Cucamonga Peak | NE 52° | 2,695 m | 11.1 mi |
| Ontario Peak | NE 42° | 2,640 m | 9.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:29 | 20:06 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:16 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 06:54 | 16:08 | 16:46 |
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 | 56 | 56 | 60 | 63 | 66 | 71 | 76 | 78 | 75 | 67 | 60 | 54 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pomona/fairplex, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/10290293602
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