Nature reserve · California

Vasco Hills

Vasco Hills from directly overhead

Vasco Hills is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 80 m. Mount Diablo stands 1,173 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Brushy Peak Resource Protection Area, a nature reserve 3.5 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: East Bay Regional Park District

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.82066, -121.67318

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites

Byron: 3.8 mi
Volvon Overlook: 6.2 mi
Bob Walker's Cave: 6.2 mi
Circle of Stones: 6.4 mi
Lion's Mane Village: 6.4 mi

Peaks

Brushy Peak: 4.0 mi
Red Leg Peak: 8.4 mi
Lone Hill: 10.7 mi
Oyster Point: 11.2 mi
Windy Point: 11.3 mi

Parks

Molly's Arena: 4.3 mi
Brushy Peak Regional Preserve: 5.4 mi
Regatta Park: 5.5 mi
Pioneer Park: 5.8 mi
Slifer Park: 6.6 mi

Nature reserves57

Brushy Peak Resource Protection Area: 3.5 mi
Highland Springs: 6.6 mi
Garaventa Wetlands Preserve: 7.1 mi
Dry Creek: 7.1 mi
Springtown Wetlands Preserve: 7.8 mi

Picnic sites41

John C. Calhoun Memorial Table: 10.1 mi
Picnic Area: 13.6 mi
Mount Diablo Summit Barbecue Area: 14.0 mi
Toyon Picnic Area: 14.1 mi
Horseshoe Picnic Area: 14.2 mi

Museums36

Tassajara School: 10.3 mi
The Duarte Garage & Lincoln Highway Museum: 10.6 mi
The Carnegie Museum: 11.0 mi
Lammersville Pioneer School: 12.1 mi
Blackhawk Auto Museum: 13.4 mi

Artworks34

Influx: 8.6 mi
Wallis Ranch Water Tower: 12.5 mi
Tassajara Road Gear Sculpture: 12.6 mi
Elatus: 12.6 mi
Dinosaur sculptures: 13.4 mi

Gardens28

Granada Native Garden: 11.7 mi
Blackhawk logo: 13.3 mi
Native Garden: 13.6 mi
Don Biddle Community Garden: 14.7 mi
Rose Garden: 16.6 mi

Attractions22

Altamont Speedway: 8.3 mi
Oldest Light Bulb: 10.4 mi
Livermorium Atom: 10.9 mi
Tracy Holiday Light Show: 15.0 mi
Babe Ruth Baseball Field: 15.8 mi

Springs18

Marsh Creek Headwaters Spring: 6.5 mi
Sycamore Spring: 8.2 mi
Sulfur Spring: 13.5 mi
Sheepherder Spring: 13.8 mi
Maple Spring: 15.1 mi

Ghost towns8

West Hartley: 11.3 mi
Judsonville: 12.3 mi
Stewartville: 12.9 mi
Somersville: 14.0 mi
Nortonville: 14.8 mi

Beaches6

Shadow Cliffs Beach: 13.9 mi
Del Valle East Beach: 16.4 mi
Del Valle West Beach: 16.8 mi
Kite beach: 17.5 mi
Playpen: 17.6 mi

Cliffs5

Del Valle Cliffs: 14.1 mi
Turtle Rock: 15.2 mi
Mitchell Rock: 16.1 mi
The Devil's Shelf: 20.7 mi
The Bluff: 22.3 mi

Waterfalls2

Tehan Falls: 17.8 mi
Murietta Falls: 20.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Vasco Hills. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Mount Diablo	WNW 288°	1,173 m	13.8 mi
Rose Peak	S 188°	1,163 m	21.6 mi
Cedar Mountain	SSE 169°	1,118 m	18.4 mi
Devil's Pulpit	WNW 288°	1,110 m	13.7 mi
North Peak	WNW 292°	1,084 m	13.4 mi
Lookout Point	S 179°	1,051 m	21.2 mi
Ransom Point	WNW 289°	1,037 m	14.0 mi
Mount Wallace	SSE 161°	942 m	20.6 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:11	18:44	19:19
June solstice	05:46	19:54	20:33
September equinox	06:55	18:31	19:05
December solstice	07:19	16:11	16:52

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	53	57	62	68	74	78	77	75	67	56	49
Precip in	2.5	2.3	1.6	0.8	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.7	1.3	2.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tracy Pumping PLT, 5 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/671340231

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