Nature reserve · California

Rancho Ventura

Rancho Ventura from directly overhead

Rancho Ventura is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 214 m. Haddock Mountain stands 2,265 m to the north, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is VC, a artwork 0.2 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Rancho Ventura Conservation Trust

Getting there

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Coordinates34.28879, -119.23448

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Arroyo Verde Park: 0.5 mi
Camino Real Park: 1.3 mi
Pacific View Skate Bowl: 1.5 mi
McWherter Corner Park: 1.8 mi
Blanche Reynolds Park: 1.9 mi

Nature reserves

Peaks

Loma de la Cruz: 3.5 mi
Red Mountain: 7.5 mi
Sulphur Mountain: 8.5 mi
Twin Peaks: 9.3 mi
Black Mountain: 9.9 mi

Museums36

Dudley House: 0.8 mi
Mission San Buenaventura Museum and Gift Shop: 3.6 mi
A J Comstock Fire Museum: 3.7 mi
Albinger Archeological Museum: 3.7 mi
Museum of Ventura County: 3.7 mi

Beaches29

Little Beach: 2.7 mi
Big Beach: 2.9 mi
Surfer's Knoll: 3.8 mi
Mandalay State Beach: 6.1 mi
Mandalay Beach: 6.7 mi

Historic sites23

Cannon: 3.3 mi
Junipero Serra: 3.5 mi
Mission Cross: 3.5 mi
Mission Chumash Barracks: 3.7 mi
Mission Chumash Barracks: 3.7 mi

Artworks20

VC: 0.2 mi
Ventura V: 1.9 mi
Phoenix: 3.3 mi
The Mermaid of Soter Point: 3.3 mi
Ventura Vinnie: 3.4 mi

Gardens19

Mediterranean Diversity Olive Grove: 3.3 mi
California Spring Wildflower Meadow: 3.3 mi
California Coastal Sage Scrub: 3.3 mi
Acacia Trees: 3.3 mi
Chilean Sclerophyllous Forest Plants: 3.3 mi

Attractions12

San Buenaventura City Hall: 3.4 mi
The Sunburst Railbikes: 10.9 mi
Hartley Botanica: 16.0 mi
Carpinteria Tar Pit: 16.7 mi
Chumash Demonstration Village: 18.3 mi

Springs9

Sulphur Spring: 12.5 mi
Wilsie Spring: 14.6 mi
Hot Spring: 15.8 mi
Bellyache Springs: 15.9 mi
Kerr Spring: 20.4 mi

Picnic sites8

Area 2: 6.6 mi
Upper Rose Valley Lake Day Use Area: 17.3 mi
Skunk Hollow: 18.8 mi
Wildwood Canyon: 18.9 mi
Oak Grove: 19.0 mi

Waterfalls7

Punch Bowl: 15.3 mi
Jackson Falls: 16.0 mi
Rose Valley Falls: 16.8 mi
33 Falls: 16.8 mi
White Swift Falls: 17.1 mi

Cliffs5

Foothill Crag "The Foot": 12.6 mi
Topatopa Bluff: 15.6 mi
Echo Cliffs: 20.9 mi
Kima Point: 24.0 mi
San Ysidro Rock: 24.9 mi

Natural arches1

Arch Rock: 20.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Rancho Ventura. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Haddock Mountain	N 359°	2,265 m	23.1 mi
Thorn Point	NNE 15°	2,092 m	22.8 mi
Hines Peak	NNE 31°	2,041 m	17.8 mi
Topatopa Bluff	NNE 27°	1,945 m	16.2 mi
Topatopa Peak	NE 39°	1,891 m	22.3 mi
Monte Arido	NW 323°	1,831 m	21.8 mi
Chief Peak	NNE 14°	1,703 m	15.8 mi
Old Man Mountain	NW 322°	1,688 m	20.1 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:01	18:36	19:09
June solstice	05:46	19:36	20:13
September equinox	06:46	18:22	18:55
December solstice	07:00	16:13	16:52

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	56	57	57	59	61	64	67	67	67	65	60	56
Precip in	2.9	3.3	2.3	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.5	0.7	2.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oxnard Ventura CO AP, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1216138348

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