Charles Byrd Park
Charles Byrd Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,058 m. Mount Shasta stands 4,322 m to the east, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Cougar Park Picnic Area, a picnic site 0.6 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1058 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Weed Recreation and Parks District
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Black Butte: 5.3 mi
- Cinder Cone: 5.8 mi
- Spring Hill: 7.8 mi
- Haystack: 8.7 mi
- Shastina: 8.7 mi
- Bel Air Park: 1.5 mi
- Hoy Park: 6.8 mi
- Mount Shasta City Park: 8.2 mi
- Shastice Park: 9.2 mi
- Lava Lakes Wildlife Sanctuary: 15.5 mi
- Peaceful Warrior: 10.9 mi
- Greatest Generation: 10.9 mi
- Those Left Behind: 10.9 mi
- The Flute Player: 10.9 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 10.9 mi
- Whitney Falls: 7.8 mi
- Coquette Falls: 8.9 mi
- Faery Falls: 12.5 mi
- Mud Creek Falls: 12.6 mi
- Ash Creek Falls: 13.1 mi
- Cougar Park Picnic Area: 0.6 mi
- Ney Springs River Access: 12.2 mi
- Cantara Loop River Access: 12.5 mi
- Riverside Day Use Area: 20.3 mi
- Lower Greenhorn Picnic Area: 23.2 mi
- Big Springs: 8.1 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 11.0 mi
- Panther Springs: 11.2 mi
- Shasta View Spring: 11.5 mi
- White Ridge Spring: 14.7 mi
- Old fire lookout foundation: 5.3 mi
- Monroe Memorial: 8.1 mi
- Mount Eddy Lookout Tower Ruins: 9.5 mi
- Everett Memorial: 9.9 mi
- Hot LZ Memorial Wall: 10.8 mi
- Weed Museum: 0.9 mi
- Sisson Museum: 9.4 mi
- Siskiyou Arts Museum: 16.8 mi
- Heritage Junction Museum: 18.0 mi
- Railroad Museum: 21.3 mi
- Sisson Meadow: 9.3 mi
- Shasta Valley Wildlife Area: 19.1 mi
- Yreka Phlox Preserve: 23.3 mi
- China Hill Yreka Phlox Preserve: 24.3 mi
- Red Banks: 10.0 mi
- Red Banks: 10.1 mi
- Castle Crags: 17.6 mi
- Cosmic Wall: 18.4 mi
- Weed Airport Rest Area: 4.5 mi
- Weed Airport Rest Area: 4.5 mi
- Grass Lake Rest Area: 18.1 mi
- Sulphur Springs: 10.0 mi
- Lake Siskiyou Beach: 11.3 mi
- 1727 Class M6: 15.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.6 miles of Charles Byrd Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Shasta | E 101° | 4,321.8 m | 10.1 mi |
| Misery Hill | ESE 103° | 4,206.2 m | 10.0 mi |
| Thumb Rock | ESE 106° | 3,938.9 m | 10.2 mi |
| Shastina | ESE 103° | 3,758.2 m | 8.7 mi |
| Shastina | ESE 103° | 3,758.2 m | 8.7 mi |
| Shastarama Point | ESE 110° | 3,393.9 m | 10.6 mi |
| Casaval Ridge | ESE 112° | 3,187.9 m | 9.3 mi |
| Green Butte | ESE 116° | 2,802 m | 10.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:45 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 20:05 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:59 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 38 | 42 | 47 | 54 | 61 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 51 | 41 | 35 |
| Precip in | 7.1 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 4.3 | 7.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Shasta, 9 mi away.
- California incense-cedar17 obs
- Cornflower12 obs
- California black oak7 obs
- Ceanothus Silk Moth6 obs
- white clover6 obs
- great mullein6 obs
- Monochamus obtusus6 obs
- Mule Deer5 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1285356927
Day trips start here
- Weed · 1 mi
- Mount Shasta · 9 mi
- Siskiyou County · 14 mi
- Dunsmuir · 17 mi
- McCloud · 18 mi
- Callahan · 23 mi
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