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Castro Valley Community Park

Castro Valley Community Park from directly overhead

Castro Valley Community Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 75 m. Mount Diablo stands 1,173 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Castro Valley High Scool Garden, a garden 0.7 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
75 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.70837, -122.08924
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
  • Evlyn Thomas Park: 0.7 mi
  • Parsons Park: 0.8 mi
  • Lake Chabot - Main Entrance: 0.9 mi
  • Adobe Art Center Park: 0.9 mi
  • Fairmont Terrace Park: 1.3 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
  • Peace Sign: 1.8 mi
  • Seven Year Sister City Anniversary (Hayward–Funabashi): 2.1 mi
  • Memorial to the Chinese Laborers: 2.7 mi
  • Holding Tomorrow's Heart: 4.3 mi
  • City of San Leandro Monument: 4.5 mi
Museums
  • Hayward Area Historical Society: 2.2 mi
  • Discovery Center: 2.6 mi
  • McConaghy House: 3.2 mi
  • Dunsmuir House: 3.7 mi
  • C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology: 4.2 mi
Attractions
  • Dunsmuir House and Gardens: 3.7 mi
  • Mountain Lion: 4.0 mi
  • Black Bear: 4.0 mi
  • Grizzly Bear: 4.1 mi
  • Jaguar: 4.1 mi
Picnic sites
Artworks
Nature reserves
Beaches: 30
Springs: 22
  • Eugene Spring: 6.9 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 13.4 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 13.4 mi
  • Sheepherder Spring: 13.7 mi
  • Mineral Spring: 13.7 mi
Ghost towns: 13
Cliffs: 9
  • Chab: 2.7 mi
  • The Devil's Shelf: 6.4 mi
  • Turtle Rock: 13.5 mi
  • Mitchell Rock: 16.4 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 19.9 mi
Waterfalls: 6
Lighthouses: 2
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Castro Valley Community Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount DiabloNE 39°1,173 m15.3 mi
Devil's PulpitNE 39°1,110 m15.4 mi
North PeakNE 39°1,084 m16.4 mi
Ransom PointNE 38°1,037 m15.5 mi
Eagle PeakNNE 32°722 m15.7 mi
Sunol PeakSE 124°664 m11.0 mi
Oyster PointNE 54°644 m14.3 mi
Cave PointNE 51°636 m14.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4819:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:2116:1316:54

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, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard154 obs
  • Pacific poison oak149 obs
  • orange bush monkeyflower148 obs
  • California buckeye117 obs
  • Mallard114 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco107 obs
  • California poppy95 obs
  • coast live oak90 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/43985675

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