Clay Pit State Vehicular Recreation Area
Clay Pit State Vehicular Recreation Area is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 41 m. Little Bald Rock stands 1,043 m to the northeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Oroville Wildlife Area, a park 1.5 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Oroville Wildlife Area: 1.5 mi
- Lake Oroville State Recreational Area: 2.6 mi
- Riverbend Park: 2.6 mi
- Riverbend Park: 3.0 mi
- Bedrock Park: 3.5 mi
- Sugarloaf Peak: 3.4 mi
- Sorensen Hill: 6.2 mi
- South Table Mountain: 6.4 mi
- Sycamore Hill: 6.5 mi
- Monte de Oro: 7.1 mi
- Ranch Falls: 6.9 mi
- Crevice Twin Falls: 7.2 mi
- Crevice Falls: 7.2 mi
- Crevice Falls: 7.2 mi
- Ladder Falls: 7.3 mi
- C F Lott Historic Home: 3.6 mi
- Oroville Chinese Temple: 3.9 mi
- Butte County Historical Society Museum: 4.4 mi
- Pioneer History Museum: 4.4 mi
- bath house museum: 4.6 mi
- Beatson Corral: 8.0 mi
- World Trade Center artifact: 11.7 mi
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF Kristina Chesterman 1992-2013: 19.7 mi
- Phagna Norapamok Memorial: 20.7 mi
- Chico Community Labyrinth: 21.0 mi
- Wildcat Sculpture: 20.8 mi
- Steel "Sculpture": 20.9 mi
- Downtown Kaleidoscope: 20.9 mi
- Three Sisters: 20.9 mi
- Monoliths: 20.9 mi
- Hamilton: 2.1 mi
- Bidwell's Bar: 10.9 mi
- Chandon: 11.7 mi
- Bloomer: 12.1 mi
- Brush: 18.8 mi
- Chico Seed Orchard: 17.9 mi
- George Petersen Rose Garden: 20.9 mi
- Mary Lemcke Camellia Garden: 21.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 21.0 mi
- Toride Japan Sister City Garden: 23.2 mi
- Hespol Memorial Spring: 15.6 mi
- Colyear Springs: 20.1 mi
- Hog Spring: 20.1 mi
- Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 1.6 mi
- North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 8.1 mi
- Clarenback Point: 12.6 mi
- Cape Horn: 16.2 mi
- Collins Lake Group Picnic Area #1: 18.8 mi
- Five Mile: 21.5 mi
- Collins Lake Beach: 18.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.7 miles of Clay Pit State Vehicular Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Bald Rock | NE 52° | 1,043 m | 19.5 mi |
| Bald Rock Dome | NE 54° | 1,022 m | 20.4 mi |
| Sunset Hill | E 80° | 1,006 m | 17.4 mi |
| Big Bald Rock | NE 52° | 990 m | 18.5 mi |
| Weiss Hill | E 86° | 975 m | 16.7 mi |
| Kanaka Peak | ENE 67° | 920 m | 18.3 mi |
| Bloomer Hill | NE 35° | 913 m | 14.5 mi |
| Ruff Hill | E 93° | 906 m | 19.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:57 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:04 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 81 | 79 | 74 | 65 | 54 | 47 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 4.8 | 3.3 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oroville Muni AP, under a mile away.
- Savannah Sparrow13 obs
- Bufflehead12 obs
- Greater Scaup11 obs
- Pacific chorus frog11 obs
- Yellow Mariposa Lily10 obs
- Frémont's tidytips10 obs
- Common Goldeneye9 obs
- American Coot8 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/40262300
Day trips start here
- Chico · 21 mi
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