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Agua Caliente County Park

Agua Caliente County Park from directly overhead

Agua Caliente County Park is a nature reserve in California, at a recorded elevation of 423 m. Cuyamaca Peak stands 1,979 m to the west, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Agua Caliente Springs, a spring less than a tenth of a mile away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
423 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates32.95056, -116.30560
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Springs
  • Agua Caliente Springs: 0.0 mi
  • Agua Caliente Springs: 0.1 mi
  • Agua Caliente Springs: 0.1 mi
  • Agua Caliente Springs: 0.2 mi
  • Agua Caliente Springs: 0.2 mi
Peaks
  • Red Top: 5.0 mi
  • Whale Peak: 5.5 mi
  • Ghost Mountain: 5.6 mi
  • West Mesa: 5.7 mi
  • Troutman Mountain: 5.9 mi
Artworks: 45
  • Carnotaurus / Allosaurus: 17.4 mi
  • Roadrunner & Rattlesnake: 17.4 mi
  • Spinosaurus: 17.4 mi
  • Utahraptor: 17.4 mi
  • Tyrannosaurus Rex: 17.4 mi
Historic sites: 21
Parks: 20
Attractions: 18
  • Pictograph Trailhead: 5.7 mi
  • Mortero Trailhead: 5.8 mi
  • "Hollywood & Vine" Street Sign: 6.6 mi
  • Moteros: 16.4 mi
  • Blowsand Hill: 16.9 mi
Waterfalls: 8
  • Cottonwood Creek: 14.0 mi
  • Kitchen Creek Falls: 17.1 mi
  • Dry Falls: 18.2 mi
  • The Falls: 20.2 mi
  • Maidenhair Falls: 21.3 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Desert View Picnic Area: 8.4 mi
  • Desert View Picnic Area: 8.4 mi
  • BBQ Area: 10.3 mi
  • Pioneer Mail Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
  • Day Use Picnic Site: 13.6 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Cliffs: 5
Museums: 5
Nature reserves: 2
Gardens: 2
  • desert garden: 13.6 mi
  • Stuart Alan Whitmore Memorial Garden: 19.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.9 miles of Agua Caliente County Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cuyamaca PeakW 269°1,979 m17.4 mi
Monument PeakWSW 239°1,904 m7.8 mi
Wooded HillSW 228°1,894 m10.4 mi
Stephenson PeakSW 231°1,889 m8.2 mi
Piñon PointSW 229°1,832 m8.5 mi
North PeakWNW 283°1,826 m16.7 mi
Garnet PeakW 259°1,800 m9.0 mi
Middle PeakW 277°1,795 m17.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5018:2518:57
June solstice05:3819:2119:58
September equinox06:3418:1118:43
December solstice06:4516:0616:43

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424245515765717065564742
Precip in2.74.82.60.90.40.10.70.50.50.71.42.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Laguna #3, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • California Barrel Cactus754 obs
  • Teddybear Cholla276 obs
  • Mason Valley Cholla243 obs
  • desert agave239 obs
  • ocotillo227 obs
  • Branched Pencil Cholla182 obs
  • Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus177 obs
  • Beavertail Pricklypear175 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/412030001

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