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Bishop Ranch Regional Open Space Preserve

Bishop Ranch Regional Open Space Preserve from directly overhead

Bishop Ranch Regional Open Space Preserve is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 220 m. Mount Diablo stands 1,173 m to the north-northeast, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Memorial Park, a park 0.5 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
East Bay Regional Parks District

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.75532, -121.97879
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
  • Inverness Park: 1.3 mi
  • Crow Canyon Gardens: 1.3 mi
  • Athan Downs: 1.3 mi
  • Mill Creek Hollow: 1.5 mi
Artworks
Peaks
  • Harlan Hill: 1.3 mi
  • Wiedemann Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Peterson: 2.2 mi
  • Dougherty Hills: 2.8 mi
  • Donlan Point: 3.8 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Gardens
Museums
  • Kolb House: 4.4 mi
  • Murray Schoolhouse: 4.5 mi
  • Little Classroom: 4.5 mi
  • Blackhawk Natural History Museum: 4.6 mi
  • Blackhawk Auto Museum: 4.6 mi
Picnic sites
  • Picnic Grove: 4.4 mi
  • Group picnic zone: 5.0 mi
  • Covered picnic zone: 5.0 mi
  • Corral Camp: 5.4 mi
  • Shady: 5.7 mi
Attractions
Springs: 17
Beaches: 16
Ghost towns: 12
Cliffs: 7
  • The Devil's Shelf: 4.9 mi
  • Turtle Rock: 7.9 mi
  • Chab: 8.4 mi
  • Mitchell Rock: 11.3 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 15.8 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Lighthouses: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Stop: 24.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.0 miles of Bishop Ranch Regional Open Space Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount DiabloNNE 22°1,173 m9.4 mi
Devil's PulpitNNE 23°1,110 m9.5 mi
North PeakNNE 24°1,084 m10.4 mi
Ransom PointNNE 21°1,037 m9.7 mi
Mount OlympiaNNE 22°898 m10.9 mi
Eagle PeakNNE 12°722 m10.4 mi
Sunol PeakSSE 162°664 m9.8 mi
Red Leg PeakNE 51°652 m11.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4719:5520:34
September equinox06:5618:3219:06
December solstice07:2016:1216:53

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F484850535966727270635347
Precip in5.14.93.71.91.10.30.00.00.11.22.65.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Diablo Junction, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Acorn Woodpecker84 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk55 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco42 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard39 obs
  • Great Blue Heron36 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird36 obs
  • Western Bluebird36 obs
  • California Scrub-Jay36 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/43951126

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