Balsitis Park
Balsitis Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 741 m. Cache Peak stands 2,035 m to the west-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is J Kerman Cooper Field, a park 2.9 miles away. 131 named places lie within 25 miles, 44 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 741 m
How to reach it
131 named places within 25 miles
- Desert Butte: 4.7 mi
- Castle Butte: 7.0 mi
- Brown Butte: 10.2 mi
- Sanborn Hill: 10.4 mi
- De Stazo Hill: 10.4 mi
- Tolly Spring: 10.7 mi
- Quail Spring: 12.1 mi
- Peeping Tom Spring: 12.5 mi
- Eagle Spring: 13.0 mi
- Ruth Camp Spring: 13.0 mi
- J Kerman Cooper Field: 2.9 mi
- Central Park: 3.1 mi
- Borax Bill Park: 9.6 mi
- B Park: 11.0 mi
- Mojave East Park: 11.0 mi
- Desert Tortoise Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Desert Tortoise Habitat Area: 7.5 mi
- Desert Tortoise Preserve: 9.6 mi
- Desert Tortoise Natural Area: 14.8 mi
- Red Cliffs Natural Preserve: 16.4 mi
- B-52: 11.6 mi
- Red cliffs trail: 16.1 mi
- Burro Schmidt Tunnel: 20.3 mi
- Burro Schmidt Tunnel: 20.5 mi
- Test Facility Race Car Paddock Area: 23.0 mi
- Josephine Stephens Bishop: 11.8 mi
- X1 Loading Pit: 17.4 mi
- Cudahy camp: 19.8 mi
- Bickel Camp: 22.0 mi
- Fremont: 24.2 mi
- Air Force Flight Test Center Museum: 15.7 mi
- Century Circle: 17.9 mi
- Rio Tinto Borax Mine Visitor Center: 19.0 mi
- Boron Aerospace Museum: 21.7 mi
- Twenty Mule Team Museum: 21.7 mi
- Donley: 14.0 mi
- Tamarisk Grove: 14.7 mi
- Red Rooster Picnic Site: 14.8 mi
- Boron Rest Area: 18.0 mi
- Boron Rest Area: 18.1 mi
- Last Chance Canyon Arch: 21.2 mi
- Garlock: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Balsitis Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cache Peak | WNW 294° | 2,035 m | 15.5 mi |
| Weldon Peak | NW 314° | 1,937 m | 22.6 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | WNW 287° | 1,893 m | 20.1 mi |
| Middle Knob | W 280° | 1,891 m | 12.6 mi |
| Pinyon Mountain | NNW 339° | 1,859 m | 24.4 mi |
| Butterbredt Peak | NNW 334° | 1,819 m | 19.5 mi |
| Gold Peak | NNW 338° | 1,806 m | 23.4 mi |
| Red Mountain | W 275° | 1,743 m | 15.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:33 | 20:10 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:17 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 06:57 | 16:05 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 67 | 77 | 83 | 82 | 75 | 64 | 52 | 44 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mojave, 11 mi away.
- Western Whiptail7 obs
- Sacred Datura6 obs
- Creosote Bush6 obs
- Desert Iguana5 obs
- Western Black Widow5 obs
- Silver Cholla5 obs
- Freckled Milkvetch5 obs
- Common Side-blotched Lizard4 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 way/84516939
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