Towle Conservation Easement
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Towle Conservation Easement is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 946 m. Black Mountain stands 2,131 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Lovers Leap, a cliff 1.0 miles away.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Placer County
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Snakehead Point: 1.2 mi
- Frost Hill: 1.4 mi
- Hayden Hill: 1.8 mi
- Bogus Point: 2.3 mi
- Sugarloaf: 2.4 mi
- Peoples Park: 6.2 mi
- Rock Creek Nature Study Area: 10.4 mi
- Emigrant Gap Historical Marker: 11.0 mi
- Leroy E Botts Memorial Park: 11.4 mi
- Calanan Park: 12.9 mi
- Lovers Leap: 1.0 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 5.4 mi
- Red Point: 5.8 mi
- Excelsior: 6.8 mi
- Sailor Point: 7.8 mi
- Blue Star Memorial Highway: 3.0 mi
- Chinese Railroad Workers: 3.0 mi
- Red Point Townsite: 5.8 mi
- Stevens Trail: 6.4 mi
- Iowa Hill Fire: 6.5 mi
- Government Spring: 8.8 mi
- Dawson Spring: 10.5 mi
- Derbec Spring: 14.8 mi
- Upper Derbec Spring: 15.0 mi
- Willow Spring: 15.1 mi
- White Cloud Picnic Site: 9.4 mi
- Humbug Creek Picknic: 12.8 mi
- Ralston Picnic Area: 13.0 mi
- Overlook Point Picnic Area: 13.1 mi
- Lodgepole: 13.3 mi
- Heritage Museum: 10.3 mi
- Foresthill Divide Museum: 11.4 mi
- Nevada County Narrow Guage Railroad Museum: 12.6 mi
- Firehouse Number 1 Museum: 12.9 mi
- American Victorian Museum: 13.0 mi
- cave: 8.8 mi
- Missouri Bar: 11.9 mi
- Illinois Bar: 13.5 mi
- Bourn Cottage: 13.6 mi
- Edwards Crossing: 14.1 mi
- Woodpecker Wildlife Preserve / Geri Bergen Memorial Forest: 11.1 mi
- Auburn State Recreation Area: 11.5 mi
- Adam Ryan Wildlife Preserve: 13.2 mi
- Burton Homestead Preserve: 14.0 mi
- Round Mountain Conservation Easement: 14.4 mi
- Dutch Flat Community Garden: 2.6 mi
- Bourn Gardens: 13.5 mi
- Nisenan Garden: 13.6 mi
- Prayer Garden: 14.2 mi
- Red Dog: 5.9 mi
- Deadwood: 9.3 mi
- North Bloomfield: 13.7 mi
- Forest: 21.3 mi
- Dog Beach: 7.6 mi
- Hoyt Crossing Nude Beach: 17.1 mi
- Pine Island Beach: 22.5 mi
- Tamaroo Bar: 24.5 mi
- Gold Run Eastbound Rest Area: 2.9 mi
- Gold Run Westbound Rest Area: 3.1 mi
- Alpha - Omega Rest Area: 9.2 mi
- Codfish Falls: 15.6 mi
- East Snow Mountain Falls: 19.1 mi
- Giant Indian Statues: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.2 miles of Towle Conservation Easement. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mountain | ENE 57° | 2,131 m | 12.2 mi |
| Quartz Mountain | ENE 63° | 2,125 m | 12.5 mi |
| Canada Hill | E 93° | 2,048 m | 14.4 mi |
| Cisco Butte | NE 56° | 2,015 m | 15.2 mi |
| Zion Hill | NE 37° | 1,890 m | 14.4 mi |
| Sugar Pine Point | ENE 73° | 1,882 m | 14.2 mi |
| Clyde Mountain | NE 34° | 1,846 m | 13.0 mi |
| Whisky Hill | E 88° | 1,776 m | 11.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:53 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:02 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 39 | 42 | 45 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 70 | 65 | 56 | 45 | 39 |
| Precip in | 10.6 | 10.1 | 8.9 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 7.2 | 10.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Blue Canyon Nyack AP, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/995452044
Day trips start here
- Placer County · 9 mi
- Colfax · 10 mi
- Grass Valley · 14 mi
- Auburn · 25 mi
- Coloma · 27 mi
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