Acorn Recreation Area
Acorn Recreation Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 224 m. Mount Zion stands 899 m to the north-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Oak Knoll Recreation Area, a park 0.4 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 24 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 224 m
How to reach it
- 23.5 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Oak Knoll Recreation Area: 0.4 mi
- Fiddleneck Day Use Area: 0.7 mi
- Wrinkle Cove Day Use Area: 0.8 mi
- Valley Springs State Historic Landmark: 2.1 mi
- Valley Springs Memorial Park: 2.2 mi
- Buena Vista Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Valley Springs Peak: 3.0 mi
- Deer Peak: 3.6 mi
- Central Hill: 4.9 mi
- Siberia: 5.0 mi
- Calaveras County Historical Museum: 6.5 mi
- Amador County Museum: 12.1 mi
- Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 13.2 mi
- Preston Castle: 14.8 mi
- Knight Foundry: 15.0 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 3: 12.9 mi
- Flume Tressel Piers: 12.9 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 2: 13.0 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 1: 13.0 mi
- Massa Tunnel: 13.0 mi
- Kennedy Gold Mine: 13.2 mi
- California Caverns: 15.7 mi
- Sutter Gold Mine: 16.1 mi
- Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 16.8 mi
- Mercer Caverns: 17.4 mi
- Gooseberry Spring: 12.9 mi
- Hicks Spring: 15.0 mi
- Turners Spring: 16.2 mi
- Spanish Spring: 17.9 mi
- Churchs Spring: 19.9 mi
- A Picnic Area: 19.5 mi
- C Picnic Area: 19.5 mi
- B Picnic Area: 19.5 mi
- Heron Point Day Use: 20.1 mi
- Lupine Day Use Area: 20.6 mi
- Middle Bar: 8.7 mi
- Carson Hill: 18.8 mi
- French Flat: 22.7 mi
- Mokelumne Beach: 15.5 mi
- Cocklebur Beach: 21.8 mi
- Jailhouse Rock: 22.7 mi
- Negro Jack Point: 23.1 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 7.1 mi
- Natural Bridge: 19.3 mi
- National Recreation Area: 20.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.6 miles of Acorn Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Zion | NNE 28° | 899 m | 16.7 mi |
| Bear Mountain | SE 133° | 879 m | 15.9 mi |
| Joaquin Peak | ESE 113° | 854 m | 6.3 mi |
| Quiggs Mountain | ENE 70° | 843 m | 10.6 mi |
| Soapstone Hill | E 100° | 799 m | 16.2 mi |
| Carmen Peak | SE 139° | 786 m | 11.2 mi |
| High Mountain | E 92° | 748 m | 15.6 mi |
| Clinton Peak | NNE 25° | 733 m | 15.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:51 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:06 | 16:47 |
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 | 51 | 55 | 59 | 66 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 75 | 66 | 55 | 48 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Camp Pardee, 6 mi away.
- Western Fence Lizard14 obs
- Mule Deer14 obs
- Pacific chorus frog12 obs
- Canada Goose11 obs
- blue oak11 obs
- California Scrub-Jay10 obs
- Western Toad9 obs
- Turkey Vulture8 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358832924
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