Nature reserve · California

Harvey Ranch Preserve

Harvey Ranch Preserve from directly overhead

Harvey Ranch Preserve is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 249 m. Mount Diablo stands 1,173 m to the east-northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Ridgeline Preserve, a nature reserve 0.5 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: John Muir Land Trust

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.83556, -122.09691

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Ridgeline Preserve: 0.5 mi
Land Bank: 0.7 mi
Carr Ranch Preserve: 1.4 mi
Painted Rock: 2.2 mi
Mulholland Open Space Preserve: 2.6 mi

Historic sites

SMC Letters: 0.7 mi
Sculpture of Saint John Baptist de La Salle: 0.8 mi
Alamo Grammer School: 3.6 mi
J.M. James House: 3.7 mi
Stone Valley: 3.7 mi

Parks

Chapel Green: 0.8 mi
Pat Vincent Memorial Field: 1.0 mi
Moraga Commons Park: 1.6 mi
Lafayette Community Park: 1.8 mi
Rancho Laguna Park: 2.0 mi

Gardens

Moraga Garden Center: 1.6 mi
Lafayette Community Garden: 4.5 mi
Fig Leaf Gardens: 5.9 mi
William Joseph McInnes Botanic Garden and Arboretum: 5.9 mi
Laurel Art Garden: 6.5 mi

Peaks

Las Trampas Peak: 1.8 mi
Rock 2: 2.4 mi
Vail Peak: 2.5 mi
Eagle Peak: 2.7 mi
Castle Hill: 3.0 mi

Picnic sites

Shady: 2.9 mi
Corral Camp: 3.2 mi
Quail: 3.4 mi
Wayside: 3.4 mi
Owl: 3.4 mi

Artworks

Museums

Chabot Space and Science Center: 4.7 mi
Museum of the San Ramon Valley: 5.4 mi
Mills College Art Museum: 5.9 mi
Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society: 6.1 mi
Lindsay Wildlife Experience: 6.2 mi

Attractions

Mazzariello Labyrinth: 5.2 mi
Gray Wolf: 6.1 mi
California Condor: 6.1 mi
Jaguar: 6.1 mi
Eagle: 6.1 mi

Beaches30

Lake Temescal Beach: 7.3 mi
Sandy Beach: 9.2 mi
Lake Anza Beach: 9.4 mi
Encinal beach: 11.6 mi
Toll Plaza Beach: 12.0 mi

Springs20

Sulfur Spring: 6.8 mi
Soto Springs: 8.3 mi
Coffeeberry Spring: 8.3 mi
Mineral Spring: 8.5 mi
Johnny-come-lately Spring: 8.5 mi

Ghost towns12

Lynn: 7.8 mi
Russell City: 12.8 mi
Acelanus: 12.9 mi
Nortonville: 14.5 mi
Somersville: 15.2 mi

Cliffs7

The Devil's Shelf: 3.7 mi
Chab: 7.4 mi
Turtle Rock: 8.5 mi
Mitchell Rock: 10.1 mi
East Slope Badlands: 16.3 mi

Waterfalls5

Abrigo Falls: 8.2 mi
Tehan Falls: 14.1 mi
Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 19.1 mi
Huntington Falls: 21.1 mi
Rainbow Falls: 21.3 mi

Lighthouses3

Rest areas1

Rest Stop: 17.4 mi

Natural arches1

Bird Island Arch: 24.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of Harvey Ranch Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Mount Diablo	ENE 72°	1,173 m	10.5 mi
Devil's Pulpit	ENE 73°	1,110 m	10.6 mi
Ransom Point	ENE 71°	1,037 m	10.5 mi
Eagle Peak	ENE 62°	722 m	9.8 mi
Rock 2	SE 126°	617 m	2.4 mi
Vollmer Peak	WNW 296°	581 m	7.6 mi
Wiedemann Hill	SE 140°	565 m	8.7 mi
Las Trampas Peak	E 95°	557 m	1.8 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:13	18:46	19:21
June solstice	05:47	19:55	20:35
September equinox	06:57	18:32	19:07
December solstice	07:21	16:12	16:53

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	51	53	55	57	60	63	64	64	65	63	56	51
Precip in	4.8	5.1	3.8	1.8	0.8	0.3	0.0	0.1	0.1	1.2	2.7	5.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Berkeley, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/1180586532

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