Nature reserve · California

Doolan Canyon

Doolan Canyon from directly overhead

Doolan Canyon is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 252 m. Mount Diablo stands 1,173 m to the north-northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Brown Ranch Mitigation Lands, a nature reserve 1.2 miles away.

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Operated by: East Bay Regional Park District

Getting there

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Coordinates37.74621, -121.83184

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Brown Ranch Mitigation Lands: 1.2 mi
Highland Springs: 4.2 mi
Old Ranch Open Space: 4.8 mi
Dougherty Hills Open Space: 4.9 mi
Springtown Wetlands Preserve: 5.2 mi

Parks

Positano Hills Park: 1.7 mi
Sean Diamond Park: 2.0 mi
Future Public Park: 2.5 mi
Future Public Park: 2.6 mi
Ted Fairfield Park: 2.6 mi

Artworks

Wallis Ranch Water Tower: 2.4 mi
Tassajara Road Gear Sculpture: 2.5 mi
Elatus: 2.9 mi
Turtle Statue: 4.7 mi
Don Biddle Memorial: 4.7 mi

Historic sites

Toliver Airship: 3.5 mi
Camp Parks: 4.8 mi
Historic Camp Parks Sign: 4.9 mi
Brickyard History Plaque: 5.3 mi
Dublin Civic Center: 5.5 mi

Picnic sites

Picnic Area: 3.6 mi
Covered picnic zone: 5.4 mi
Group picnic zone: 5.4 mi
John C. Calhoun Memorial Table: 5.7 mi
Picnic Grove: 6.7 mi

Gardens

Don Biddle Community Garden: 4.7 mi
Granada Native Garden: 5.4 mi
Blackhawk logo: 7.0 mi
Native Garden: 7.6 mi
Rose Garden: 8.9 mi

Peaks

Dougherty Hills: 5.3 mi
Oak Knoll: 5.3 mi
Oyster Point: 6.3 mi
Cave Point: 7.1 mi
Brushy Peak: 7.2 mi

Attractions

Livermorium Atom: 5.6 mi
Alameda County Fairgrounds: 6.7 mi
Oldest Light Bulb: 6.8 mi
The Old Borges Ranchouse: 13.6 mi
Niles: 13.7 mi

Museums59

Tassajara School: 4.2 mi
The Duarte Garage & Lincoln Highway Museum: 4.9 mi
The Carnegie Museum: 5.8 mi
Blackhawk Auto Museum: 6.0 mi
Blackhawk Natural History Museum: 6.1 mi

Springs18

Marsh Creek Headwaters Spring: 5.6 mi
Eugene Spring: 7.4 mi
Sycamore Spring: 7.9 mi
Sulfur Spring: 8.4 mi
Sheepherder Spring: 9.0 mi

Ghost towns11

West Hartley: 13.5 mi
Stewartville: 13.9 mi
Acelanus: 13.9 mi
Somersville: 14.7 mi
Judsonville: 14.8 mi

Beaches8

Shadow Cliffs Beach: 5.3 mi
Del Valle East Beach: 13.3 mi
Del Valle West Beach: 13.9 mi
Niles beach: 14.9 mi
Sandy Beach: 21.1 mi

Cliffs6

Del Valle Cliffs: 9.7 mi
Turtle Rock: 10.4 mi
The Devil's Shelf: 12.5 mi
Mitchell Rock: 13.2 mi
Chab: 16.3 mi

Waterfalls3

Tehan Falls: 7.8 mi
Murietta Falls: 16.0 mi
Abrigo Falls: 22.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.8 miles of Doolan Canyon. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Mount Diablo	NNW 334°	1,173 m	10.4 mi
Rose Peak	SSE 160°	1,163 m	17.3 mi
Devil's Pulpit	NNW 335°	1,110 m	10.3 mi
North Peak	NNW 340°	1,084 m	10.8 mi
Ransom Point	NNW 335°	1,037 m	10.7 mi
Mount Olympia	NNW 340°	898 m	11.4 mi
Mount Allison	S 187°	793 m	17.2 mi
Mission Peak	S 189°	761 m	16.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:12	18:45	19:20
June solstice	05:47	19:54	20:33
September equinox	06:56	18:31	19:06
December solstice	07:20	16:12	16:53

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	50	54	57	62	68	72	72	70	64	54	48
Precip in	2.8	2.9	2.2	1.1	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.7	1.7	2.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Livermore Muni AP, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/672439604

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