Craig Recreation Area
Craig Recreation Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 336 m. Big Bar Mountain stands 1,332 m to the north, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Sycamore Creek Recreation Area, a park 1.4 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 336 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Stringtown Mountain: 1.5 mi
- South Bidwell Hill: 1.6 mi
- Crystal Hill: 1.9 mi
- Rocky Point Peak: 2.3 mi
- Union Hill: 2.6 mi
- Sycamore Creek Recreation Area: 1.4 mi
- Lake Oroville State Recreation Area: 3.1 mi
- Loafer Creek Recreation Area: 3.2 mi
- Kelly Ridge Recreation Area: 3.6 mi
- Foreman Creek Recreation Area: 4.0 mi
- Schirmer Cascade: 8.0 mi
- Schirmer Falls: 8.2 mi
- Hollow Falls: 8.7 mi
- Little Hollow Falls: 8.8 mi
- Coon Falls: 8.9 mi
- bath house museum: 8.2 mi
- Butte County Historical Society Museum: 8.5 mi
- Pioneer History Museum: 8.5 mi
- Oroville Chinese Temple: 9.0 mi
- C F Lott Historic Home: 9.3 mi
- Cape Horn: 13.9 mi
- Clarenback Point: 16.3 mi
- Rocky Point: 19.1 mi
- Granite Point: 19.7 mi
- Johnsons Bluff: 20.8 mi
- Bidwell's Bar: 2.2 mi
- Bloomer: 7.0 mi
- Brush: 10.0 mi
- Hamilton: 14.5 mi
- Chandon: 21.6 mi
- North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 9.5 mi
- Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 13.0 mi
- Lower Yuba River: 23.7 mi
- Black Swan Preserve: 24.5 mi
- Beatson Corral: 9.5 mi
- World Trade Center artifact: 15.0 mi
- World's First Long-Distance Telephone Line: 21.1 mi
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF Kristina Chesterman 1992-2013: 24.8 mi
- Bridgeport Covered Bridge: 21.0 mi
- Purdon Crossing: 24.4 mi
- China Dam: 24.8 mi
- Emerald Pool: 25.0 mi
- Hespol Memorial Spring: 15.4 mi
- Hog Spring: 22.8 mi
- Oven Spring: 24.3 mi
- Collins Lake Group Picnic Area #1: 15.6 mi
- Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 22.8 mi
- Convict Flat Picnic Site: 23.9 mi
- Collins Lake Beach: 15.6 mi
- Pine Island Beach: 24.2 mi
- Hoyt Crossing Nude Beach: 24.2 mi
- Chico Seed Orchard: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of Craig Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bar Mountain | N 355° | 1,332 m | 15.6 mi |
| Quartz Hill | ENE 61° | 1,325 m | 12.1 mi |
| Sky High | NNE 30° | 1,275 m | 14.2 mi |
| Shute Mountain | NNE 28° | 1,255 m | 11.9 mi |
| Swain Hill | ENE 62° | 1,248 m | 9.6 mi |
| Hungary Hunt Peak | N 352° | 1,227 m | 14.9 mi |
| Pompys Point | NE 38° | 1,214 m | 12.5 mi |
| Barton Hill | E 90° | 1,176 m | 14.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:57 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:03 | 16:46 |
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 | 49 | 52 | 57 | 61 | 68 | 75 | 80 | 78 | 73 | 65 | 55 | 49 |
| Precip in | 5.8 | 5.6 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oroville, 9 mi away.
- Rufous-crowned Sparrow14 obs
- Golden-crowned Sparrow5 obs
- caterpillar scorpionweed5 obs
- Crystalline Gall Wasp5 obs
- Mountain Jewelflower4 obs
- great mullein4 obs
- largeflower bush monkeyflower4 obs
- blue dicks4 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 node/358824519
Day trips start here
- Chico · 27 mi
- Grass Valley · 29 mi
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