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Buckeye Community Park

Buckeye Community Park from directly overhead

Buckeye Community Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 220 m. Bully Choop Mountain stands 2,109 m to the west-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Quartz Hill, a peak 0.9 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.63072, -122.40097

Named places within 25 miles

Parks: 56
  • Northridge Park: 2.0 mi
  • Carnelian Park: 2.4 mi
  • Amethyst Park: 2.5 mi
  • Sacramento River Trail North - Diestelhorst Trailhead: 2.5 mi
  • Lake Redding Park: 2.5 mi
Artworks: 25
  • Human Sundial: 2.7 mi
  • Dandelions: 3.0 mi
  • Howell's Dive Shop Mural: 3.0 mi
  • Mount Shasta: 3.0 mi
  • Welcome to Redding: 3.0 mi
Historic sites: 11
Museums: 9
Picnic sites: 9
  • Fishermans Point: 5.8 mi
  • (Unnamed) Island Picnic Site: 9.3 mi
  • Vista Point: 10.4 mi
  • Vista Point: 10.5 mi
  • OAKBOTTOM: 11.6 mi
Gardens: 6
  • Matson, Mowder, Howe Celebration Garden: 2.5 mi
  • Medicinal Garden: 2.7 mi
  • Australian Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Chilean Garden: 2.8 mi
  • South African Garden: 2.8 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Waterfalls: 5
  • Crystal Creek Falls: 14.0 mi
  • Whiskeytown Falls: 14.1 mi
  • Clover Creek Falls: 20.2 mi
  • Potem Falls: 24.3 mi
  • Bear Creek Falls: 24.8 mi
Attractions: 4
Nature reserves: 4
Beaches: 2
Rest areas: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.1 miles of Buckeye Community Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Bully Choop MountainWSW 255°2,109 m19.9 mi
Paradise PeakWSW 254°1,920 m18.8 mi
Shasta BallyW 261°1,882 m13.5 mi
Shoemaker BallyWSW 255°1,807 m16.2 mi
Little BallyWSW 252°1,640 m13.2 mi
Schell MountainNNW 336°1,580 m16.9 mi
South Fork MountainWSW 248°1,521 m11.9 mi
Buckhorn BallyW 267°1,520 m16.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1418:4619:22
June solstice05:4020:0320:45
September equinox06:5818:3219:08
December solstice07:3116:0316:46

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485054596776838277665447
Precip in10.511.49.24.62.91.50.10.20.53.46.612.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Shasta DAM, 6 mi away.

  • Hartweg's doll's-lily11 obs
  • Round-Tooth Ookow10 obs
  • Toyon8 obs
  • Giant Crab Spider8 obs
  • blue oak7 obs
  • Western Ladies' Tresses7 obs
  • Greater Quaking Grass7 obs
  • woollypod milkweed7 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/772092234

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