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Alvarado Park

Alvarado Park from directly overhead

Alvarado Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Monument Peak North stands 800 m to the east-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Old Alvarado/Cesar Chavez Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
4 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.59743, -122.07802
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Old Alvarado/Cesar Chavez Park: 0.0 mi
  • Court House Landing Park: 0.3 mi
  • Sugar Mill Landing Park: 0.4 mi
  • Sugar Mill Park: 0.4 mi
  • Mariner Landing: 0.7 mi
Museums
  • Union City Historical Museum: 0.1 mi
  • Ardenwood Forge: 3.2 mi
  • Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center: 3.7 mi
  • C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology: 4.1 mi
  • Children's Natural History Museum: 5.5 mi
Historic sites
  • Flight 93 Memorial: 0.4 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 0.9 mi
  • Japanese Teahouse: 3.1 mi
  • Former SF-37 Nike MIssile IFC (Radar) area: 4.0 mi
  • Seven Year Sister City Anniversary (Hayward–Funabashi): 5.6 mi
Attractions
Peaks
  • Turk Island: 2.3 mi
  • Red Hill: 3.1 mi
  • Garin Peak: 3.8 mi
  • Vista Peak: 3.8 mi
  • Gossip Rock: 4.6 mi
Gardens
Picnic sites
  • E-I-O Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
  • Hoot Hollow: 3.2 mi
  • Patterson Picnic Site: 3.9 mi
  • Agua Caliente Picnic Site: 3.9 mi
  • Mowry Picnic Area: 4.0 mi
Nature reserves
Artworks
  • Unity: 6.7 mi
  • Truth Is Beauty: 9.7 mi
  • Rising Wave: 9.8 mi
  • Pole Field: 10.1 mi
  • Chevrons: 10.2 mi
Beaches: 41
  • Niles beach: 4.2 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 12.6 mi
  • Coyote Point Beach: 13.6 mi
  • Shadow Cliffs Beach: 13.9 mi
  • Aardvark Beach: 14.0 mi
Springs: 25
  • Eugene Spring: 10.8 mi
  • McClure Spring: 12.6 mi
  • Summit Spring: 17.3 mi
  • Summit Spring: 17.3 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 19.3 mi
Cliffs: 8
  • Chab: 9.7 mi
  • The Devil's Shelf: 13.8 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 18.5 mi
  • The Bluff: 18.5 mi
  • Turtle Rock: 20.0 mi
Waterfalls: 7
Ghost towns: 5
Lighthouses: 2
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Alvarado Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Monument Peak NorthESE 123°800 m13.8 mi
Mount AllisonESE 121°793 m13.2 mi
Monument PeakSE 124°776 m14.0 mi
Monument Peak NorthwestESE 123°775 m13.7 mi
Mission PeakESE 118°761 m12.3 mi
Morena SierraSW 224°731 m18.1 mi
Allen LookoutSW 219°708 m18.8 mi
Skeggs PointSW 224°703 m17.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:20
June solstice05:4819:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:2016:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515456586165666767645651
Precip in2.93.12.41.20.60.20.00.10.10.81.53.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hayward AIR Terminal, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch169 obs
  • Great Egret50 obs
  • Mallard32 obs
  • Snowy Egret31 obs
  • House Finch28 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk27 obs
  • Great Blue Heron23 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird23 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358819344

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