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Cortez Park

Cortez Park from directly overhead

Cortez Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 147 m. Turtle's Beak stands 2,090 m to the northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Maverick-Ridge Riders Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 15 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
147 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates34.06674, -117.89203

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
Museums
Peaks
Gardens
  • Meditation Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Desert Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Desert Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Desert Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Desert Garden: 2.8 mi
Nature reserves
Artworks
Attractions
  • Fairplex Garden Railroad: 7.4 mi
  • The "M": 9.4 mi
  • M3 Lee: 9.9 mi
  • M3 Lee: 9.9 mi
  • Reid-Baldwin Adobe: 10.5 mi
Picnic sites: 52
  • Picnic Area 2: 3.6 mi
  • Picnic Area 1: 3.6 mi
  • Site B: 3.9 mi
  • Site A: 3.9 mi
  • Site E: 3.9 mi
Springs: 34
  • Big Cienega Spring: 7.7 mi
  • Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 10.5 mi
  • Fern Springs: 11.2 mi
  • McDermont Spring: 13.3 mi
  • Fallen Leaf Spring: 15.2 mi
Waterfalls: 31
  • Fish Canyon Falls: 8.1 mi
  • Mayberg Waterfall: 10.7 mi
  • Wolfskill Falls: 11.1 mi
  • Hermit Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Sturtevant Falls: 12.4 mi
Cliffs: 5
  • Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 20.0 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 20.1 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 20.4 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 20.7 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 21.8 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 18.6 mi
Hot springs: 1
  • Spa Palace: 21.6 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Mother's Beach: 25.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.1 miles of Cortez Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Turtle's BeakNE 56°2,090 m17.1 mi
San Gabriel PeakNW 316°1,878 m17.0 mi
Triplet RocksN 358°1,875 m16.3 mi
Rattlesnake PeakNNE 25°1,776 m15.6 mi
Mount MarkhamNW 315°1,746 m16.7 mi
Mount WilsonNW 318°1,737 m14.5 mi
Occidental PeakNW 317°1,736 m16.0 mi
Sunset PeakNE 48°1,723 m15.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:3119:04
June solstice05:4119:3020:07
September equinox06:4018:1718:50
December solstice06:5416:0816:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F565660636671767875676054
Precip in2.94.12.11.00.20.10.00.00.01.00.72.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pomona/fairplex, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard48 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel34 obs
  • Mourning Dove32 obs
  • San Gabriel Mountains dudleya32 obs
  • House Finch29 obs
  • Western Honey Bee27 obs
  • Brown Widow25 obs
  • Toyon24 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/461966426

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