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Alston Park

Alston Park from directly overhead

Alston Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 74 m. Mount Vaca stands 857 m to the east-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Vine Hill Park, a park 0.6 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates38.32397, -122.34222

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Vine Hill Park: 0.6 mi
  • Dry Creek Park: 0.7 mi
  • Vineyard Park: 0.7 mi
  • Las Flores Park: 1.0 mi
  • Sunrise Park: 1.1 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Balloons Above the Valley: 3.0 mi
  • Napa Valley Wine Train: 3.5 mi
  • Gundlach-Bundschu Winery: 5.1 mi
  • The Patch: 6.3 mi
  • Fig Tree: 6.8 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
Museums: 46
  • The Hess Art Collection: 2.8 mi
  • Napa County Historical Society: 3.5 mi
  • di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art: 4.7 mi
  • Veterans Museum: 4.9 mi
  • Napa Valley Museum: 5.1 mi
Picnic sites: 44
Gardens: 41
  • Nature's Way Montessori School Garden: 2.1 mi
  • Martha Walker Habitat Garden: 5.9 mi
  • Culinary Garden: 5.9 mi
  • Rose Garden: 6.6 mi
  • La Prairie De Lavande (The Lavender Meadow): 12.1 mi
Nature reserves: 39
Waterfalls: 5
  • Haraszthy Falls: 4.7 mi
  • Green Valley Falls: 9.3 mi
  • Sonoma Creek Falls: 12.7 mi
  • Linda Falls: 16.9 mi
  • Buck Gulch Falls: 22.5 mi
Cliffs: 3
Ghost towns: 3
Springs: 2
  • Hunter Spring: 17.4 mi
  • Sulfur Springs: 18.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Rest Stop: 20.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Alston Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount VacaENE 68°857 m13.8 mi
Mount HoodNW 309°833 m14.8 mi
Bald MountainNW 316°832 m12.9 mi
Mount VeederNW 304°817 m6.9 mi
Atlas PeakNNE 26°814 m9.8 mi
Red MountainNW 314°777 m12.7 mi
Signal HillENE 76°726 m14.4 mi
Mount Saint JohnNW 321°713 m10.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4719:22
June solstice05:4719:5720:37
September equinox06:5818:3319:08
December solstice07:2416:1116:53

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495356596368697069645549
Precip in5.05.13.71.71.10.30.00.10.11.32.85.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Napa State Hospital, 5 mi away.

  • Western Honey Bee65 obs
  • Western Bluebird42 obs
  • western blue-eyed grass42 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard41 obs
  • Gray Buckeye41 obs
  • Rosy sandcrocus37 obs
  • Lesser Goldfinch33 obs
  • California buckeye32 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/1200010521

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