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Butcher Park

Butcher Park from directly overhead

Butcher Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 63 m. Loma Prieta stands 1,154 m to the south-southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Richard E. Huerta Park, a park 0.4 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
63 m
Getting there

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Coordinates37.25995, -121.91606
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Attractions
Peaks
  • Lone Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Blossom Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Almaden Meadows Hill: 3.1 mi
  • Communications Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Collords Peak: 4.2 mi
Picnic sites
Artworks
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Museums
Gardens
  • Misora Secret Garden: 4.5 mi
  • CNGF Native Plant Farm: 4.8 mi
  • Saratoga Community Garden: 4.8 mi
  • SoFA Demonstration Garden: 5.0 mi
  • Peace Garden: 5.1 mi
Beaches: 45
Springs: 28
Waterfalls: 26
  • Castle Rock Falls: 10.7 mi
  • Gerow's Waterfall: 12.9 mi
  • Lower Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Black Rock Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Granuja Falls: 13.9 mi
Cliffs: 13
  • Graffiti Rock: 8.7 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 9.9 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 10.3 mi
  • The Bluff: 19.0 mi
  • Upper Quarry: 19.6 mi
Ghost towns: 11
Covered bridges: 2
Lighthouses: 2
  • Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 21.2 mi
  • Santa Cruz Lighthouse: 22.2 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 22.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Butcher Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Loma PrietaSSE 159°1,154 m11.0 mi
Crystal PeakSSE 156°1,097 m11.1 mi
Mount UmunhumS 172°1,063 m6.9 mi
Mount ThayerS 182°1,061 m6.6 mi
Mount ChualSSE 155°1,046 m10.7 mi
Mount BielawskiWSW 255°985 m10.1 mi
Castle RockWSW 258°979 m10.1 mi
El SombrosoS 177°917 m5.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4819:5320:32
September equinox06:5618:3219:06
December solstice07:1916:1416:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495255586267707068625449
Precip in5.04.93.41.40.50.10.00.00.00.82.04.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Gatos, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Honey Bee505 obs
  • Monarch454 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird350 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard311 obs
  • House Finch238 obs
  • Red-shouldered Bug234 obs
  • Black Phoebe203 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel199 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 way/38048164

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