Nature reserve · California

Windy Hill Open Space Preserve

Windy Hill Open Space Preserve from directly overhead

Windy Hill Open Space Preserve is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 560 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Windy Hill, a peak 0.8 miles away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
Access: Permitted

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.35357, -122.24145

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks

Windy Hill: 0.8 mi
Kelly Hill: 1.0 mi
Langley Hill: 1.6 mi
Mount Melville: 1.7 mi
Mindego Hill: 3.0 mi

Gardens

Community Garden: 1.8 mi
Education Garden: 4.4 mi
Native Hill (California Native Habitat Garden): 6.1 mi
Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden: 6.2 mi
Foothill Horticulture Garden: 6.2 mi

Parks

Frog Pond Park: 1.8 mi
Triangle Park: 2.2 mi
La Honda Store State Historic Landmark: 3.0 mi
Searsville Historical Marker: 3.4 mi
Heritage Grove Redwood Preserve: 4.0 mi

Historic sites

Ted Norton's Rock: 1.9 mi
Dwight Crowder Trail Plaque: 2.3 mi
The Sierra Club Edna Bloss Thorne Memorial: 2.9 mi
Casa De Tableta: 3.3 mi
Foothills Park plaque: 3.4 mi

Nature reserves

Coal Creek Open Space Preserve (closed area): 2.2 mi
La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve: 3.5 mi
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: 3.6 mi
Wunderlich County Park: 3.8 mi
Hidden Villa: 4.6 mi

Artworks

Old Barn: 2.8 mi
Dialogue: 3.2 mi
Woodside Horses: 5.3 mi
Bike Tree: 6.0 mi
Air Tank Wind Chime: 6.0 mi

Picnic sites

Museums

David C. Daniels Nature Center: 4.0 mi
Carriage Room Museum: 4.1 mi
Woodside Store: 5.7 mi
Hoover Tower: 6.6 mi
Anderson Collection at Stanford University: 6.8 mi

Attractions

Towne Trail: 4.5 mi
Pandemonium Aviaries Sculpture: 4.7 mi
Stem Cell Research information placards: 6.5 mi
Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 6.5 mi
El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 7.6 mi

Beaches45

Waterfalls14

Ghost towns14

Purissima: 10.2 mi
Drawbridge: 16.6 mi
Stokes Landing: 17.4 mi
Lexington: 17.7 mi
Alma: 18.7 mi

Springs11

Cliffs7

Graffiti Rock: 10.6 mi
Underworld Rock: 11.8 mi
Lyme Disease Rock: 12.0 mi
Waddell Bluffs: 17.4 mi
China Ladder: 19.8 mi

Covered bridges2

Felton Covered Bridge: 22.9 mi
Felton Covered Bridge: 22.9 mi

Rest areas1

Crystal Springs Safety Roadside Rest Area: 14.5 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.7 miles of Windy Hill Open Space Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Mount Bielawski	SE 138°	985 m	12.1 mi
Castle Rock	SE 137°	979 m	11.8 mi
The Peak	SE 135°	917 m	13.2 mi
Lookout Tower	SE 135°	892 m	10.4 mi
Goat Rock	SE 140°	890 m	11.3 mi
Sunnyvale Mountain	SE 135°	880 m	13.5 mi
Summit Rock	SE 135°	878 m	11.0 mi
Varian Peak	SE 141°	873 m	11.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:13	18:47	19:21
June solstice	05:49	19:55	20:34
September equinox	06:58	18:33	19:07
December solstice	07:20	16:15	16:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	48	48	50	52	57	64	69	70	68	61	52	47
Precip in	7.8	8.0	6.3	3.4	1.3	0.4	0.0	0.1	0.2	1.7	4.6	8.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Skyline Ridge Preserve, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Wikipedia Wikidata Official site

OpenStreetMap element relation/193017

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