Cogswell Plaza
Cogswell Plaza is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 18 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south-southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Lytton Plaza, a park 0.1 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 18 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Lytton Plaza: 0.1 mi
- Johnson Park: 0.2 mi
- Tower Well park: 0.3 mi
- Heritage Park: 0.4 mi
- El Camino Park: 0.4 mi
- Palo Alto 100 Years: 0.1 mi
- original Palo Alto volunteer fire department bell 1904: 0.2 mi
- First Hospital: 0.2 mi
- Palo Alto’s First Community House: 0.3 mi
- Cardinal French Laundry (1931-1989): 0.3 mi
- Tower Well structure (historic): 0.2 mi
- El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 0.4 mi
- Hewlett Packard's Garage: 0.5 mi
- Historic Railroad Station: 1.2 mi
- Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 1.2 mi
- Museum of American Heritage: 0.3 mi
- Palo Alto History Museum: 0.3 mi
- Anderson Collection at Stanford University: 1.0 mi
- Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo: 1.0 mi
- West Bay Model Railroad Association: 1.1 mi
- Ella: 0.6 mi
- Angel of Grief: 0.7 mi
- Griffins: 0.8 mi
- Griffins: 0.8 mi
- The Crows Project: You-Me-We: 0.9 mi
- Arizona Garden: 0.8 mi
- Elizabeth Gamble Gardens: 0.9 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.9 mi
- Rodin Sculpture Garden: 1.1 mi
- JB Blunk Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Steve and Loli Sy Oak Grove: 1.1 mi
- Oak Grove: 1.1 mi
- EBF Picnic: 1.9 mi
- East Meadow Individual Area: 3.0 mi
- East Meadow Group Area: 3.0 mi
- Coyote Hill: 3.4 mi
- Sand Hill: 3.5 mi
- Eagle Hill: 4.8 mi
- Vista Hill: 5.7 mi
- Madera Point: 5.7 mi
- Niles beach: 12.6 mi
- Coyote Point Beach: 13.3 mi
- Aardvark Beach: 13.5 mi
- Martins Beach: 14.4 mi
- Tunitas Beach: 14.5 mi
- Peter's Creek Falls: 10.8 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 11.9 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 14.0 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 15.5 mi
- Butano Falls: 16.4 mi
- Stokes Landing: 10.3 mi
- Drawbridge: 10.4 mi
- Purissima: 14.3 mi
- Russell City: 14.4 mi
- Lexington: 19.7 mi
- Summit Spring: 8.0 mi
- Summit Spring: 8.0 mi
- Spring source: 9.2 mi
- Travertine Springs: 14.3 mi
- Congress Springs: 15.1 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 12.7 mi
- Underworld Rock: 15.6 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 15.6 mi
- Chab: 19.8 mi
- Aramai Point: 21.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.6 miles of Cogswell Plaza. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | SSE 166° | 985 m | 15.9 mi |
| Castle Rock | SSE 166° | 979 m | 15.5 mi |
| The Peak | SSE 162° | 917 m | 16.5 mi |
| Lookout Tower | SSE 168° | 892 m | 14.1 mi |
| Goat Rock | SSE 169° | 890 m | 15.4 mi |
| Summit Rock | SSE 166° | 878 m | 14.6 mi |
| Varian Peak | S 170° | 873 m | 15.1 mi |
| Black Mountain | S 175° | 849 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:55 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 51 | 55 | 57 | 61 | 66 | 68 | 67 | 66 | 61 | 53 | 48 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palo Alto, 1 mi away.
- Western Honey Bee968 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco808 obs
- Western Fence Lizard674 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel664 obs
- Monarch515 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk355 obs
- Anna's Hummingbird353 obs
- Gray Buckeye313 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/34992685
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