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Greenwood State Beach

Greenwood State Beach from directly overhead

Greenwood State Beach is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 15 m. Casabonne Peak stands 930 m to the east, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Greenwood Visitor Center Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. 123 named places lie within 25 miles, 29 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
California Department of Parks and Recreation

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Getting there

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Coordinates39.12793, -123.71632
Around it

123 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 29
  • Navarro Head: 5.4 mi
  • Bald Hill: 8.8 mi
  • Bald Hill: 8.9 mi
  • Mathison Peak: 10.0 mi
  • Cold Spring Mountain: 12.7 mi
Parks: 20
  • Mendocino Rotary Park: 13.0 mi
  • Kelley House Museum & Research Center: 13.0 mi
  • Mendocino and Headlands Historic District: 13.1 mi
  • Dog Park: 13.2 mi
  • Petanque: 13.2 mi
Nature reserves: 14
Beaches: 13
  • Stoneboro Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Big River Beach: 12.8 mi
  • Portuguese Beach: 13.0 mi
  • Russian Gulch: 14.7 mi
  • Caspar Headlands State Beach: 16.9 mi
Museums: 11
  • Greenwood Visitor Center Museum: 0.2 mi
  • Little River Improvement Club & Museum: 11.0 mi
  • Fog Signal Building: 12.0 mi
  • Ford House Visitors Center: 13.0 mi
  • First Assistant Lightkeeper's House and Museum: 16.3 mi
Natural arches: 9
  • Devils Pitchfork: 0.3 mi
  • Wharf Rock East Arch: 0.4 mi
  • Wharf Rock West Arch: 0.4 mi
  • Arch of the Navarro: 5.1 mi
  • Point Arena Arch: 13.1 mi
Historic sites: 6
Springs: 5
  • Three Springs: 10.2 mi
  • Soda Spring: 10.6 mi
  • Cold Spring: 12.4 mi
  • Summit Spring: 16.7 mi
  • Laurel Spring: 22.4 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Huckleberry Hollow: 8.5 mi
  • Camp 20: 17.6 mi
  • Dogwood Day Use: 18.1 mi
  • Camp One Day Use: 18.3 mi
Gardens: 4
Artworks: 2
Lighthouses: 2
Attractions: 2
Cliffs: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Chamberlain Creek Waterfall: 20.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Greenwood State Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Casabonne PeakE 98°930 m23.1 mi
Cold Spring MountainSE 125°815 m12.7 mi
Buck PeakSE 132°810 m18.0 mi
Two RockNE 42°809 m21.7 mi
Irene PeakNE 50°802 m22.9 mi
Williams PeakNE 51°784 m20.7 mi
Impassable RocksNE 54°781 m22.8 mi
Eagle PeakENE 63°750 m23.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1918:5219:27
June solstice05:5020:0520:45
September equinox07:0318:3819:13
December solstice07:3116:1416:56

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F464748505355575757544946
Precip in7.77.36.43.61.60.70.10.10.22.34.58.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — FT Bragg 5 N, 27 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Ochre Sea Star38 obs
  • Pacific Purple Sea Urchin37 obs
  • Gumboot Chiton25 obs
  • garden nasturtium24 obs
  • Giant Green Anemone23 obs
  • Black Tegula21 obs
  • Brown Tegula21 obs
  • thimbleberry19 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/39662096

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