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Cascade Park

Cascade Park from directly overhead

Cascade Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 81 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the north-northwest, 1.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Earnscliffe Park, a park 0.5 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
81 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.91299, -122.56496
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Peaks
Attractions
  • Founders Grove: 1.4 mi
  • Redwood Tree Slice: 1.4 mi
  • Slide House: 3.3 mi
  • Giant Picnic Table: 3.3 mi
  • Marin Art & Garden Center, Ross: 3.4 mi
Picnic sites
  • Rifle Camp: 2.5 mi
  • Potrero Camp: 2.8 mi
  • Barth's Retreat: 2.9 mi
  • Bolinas Park: 5.2 mi
  • Bicentennial Campground picnic area: 6.4 mi
Artworks
Gardens
Museums
Beaches: 50
  • Slide Ranch North Beach: 3.3 mi
  • Muir Beach: 3.7 mi
  • Pirates Cove: 4.2 mi
  • Stinson Beach: 4.2 mi
  • San Quentin Beach: 4.9 mi
Waterfalls: 16
  • Dawn Falls: 1.8 mi
  • Kent Falls: 2.1 mi
  • Laurel Dell Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Midway Falls: 3.9 mi
  • Helen Markt Falls: 4.0 mi
Springs: 11
Cliffs: 5
Ghost towns: 4
Natural arches: 3
  • Bird Island Arch: 6.3 mi
  • Temple: 13.8 mi
  • Keyhole: 14.3 mi
Lighthouses: 3
Hot springs: 1
  • Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 4.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Cascade Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount Tamalpais East PeakNNW 328°784 m1.3 mi
Mount Tamalpais West PeakWNW 293°778 m1.9 mi
Mount Tamalpais Middle PeakNW 307°744 m1.6 mi
Ballou PointW 269°612 m3.2 mi
Twin KnollsW 279°597 m3.6 mi
Big Rock RidgeNNW 348°575 m10.3 mi
Pine MountainNW 313°543 m6.5 mi
Mount Tamalpais West PointW 279°527 m1.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4819:22
June solstice05:4919:5720:37
September equinox06:5918:3419:09
December solstice07:2316:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495255586266686867635549
Precip in8.88.76.02.61.40.40.00.00.12.04.69.8

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

Wildlife nearby
  • coast redwood1,742 obs
  • Button's Banana Slug1,547 obs
  • Redwood Sorrel1,379 obs
  • Pacific trillium1,375 obs
  • Andrews' Clintonia950 obs
  • California Spikenard932 obs
  • western sword fern756 obs
  • Tanoak728 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/358832517

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