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Creekside Park

Creekside Park from directly overhead

Creekside Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 64 m. Mount Umunhum stands 1,063 m to the south-southeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Wilson Park, a park 0.4 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
64 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates37.31662, -122.01462
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Gardens
  • School Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Life Lab: 1.7 mi
  • Nature Center: 2.1 mi
  • Saratoga Community Garden: 2.6 mi
  • McClellan Ranch Community Garden: 2.6 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Nature reserves
Picnic sites
  • Central Park Pavillion: 2.7 mi
  • Chestnut Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
  • Braly Picnic #3: 3.3 mi
  • Braly Picnic #2: 3.3 mi
  • Braly Picnic #1: 3.3 mi
Peaks
  • Hunters Point: 2.9 mi
  • Anza Knoll: 3.3 mi
  • Maisie's Peak: 3.6 mi
  • Nob Hill: 3.6 mi
  • Table Mountain: 5.5 mi
Beaches: 42
Waterfalls: 26
Springs: 20
  • Congress Springs: 5.4 mi
  • Spring source: 8.1 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 8.7 mi
  • Cherry Springs: 10.4 mi
  • Bulls Spring: 12.8 mi
Ghost towns: 14
Cliffs: 13
  • Graffiti Rock: 4.3 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 7.5 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 7.8 mi
  • The Bluff: 19.1 mi
  • Waddell Bluffs: 21.0 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Rest areas: 1
Lighthouses: 1
  • Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 24.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.0 miles of Creekside Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount UmunhumSSE 149°1,063 m12.5 mi
Mount ThayerSSE 154°1,061 m11.8 mi
Mount BielawskiSW 214°985 m7.8 mi
Castle RockSW 216°979 m7.6 mi
The PeakSSW 205°917 m7.4 mi
El SombrosoSSE 149°917 m11.1 mi
Lookout TowerSW 227°892 m7.1 mi
Goat RockSW 220°890 m8.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4619:20
June solstice05:4919:5420:33
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:1916:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515457606469717170645651
Precip in3.03.22.61.20.50.20.00.00.10.81.43.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Jose, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard178 obs
  • Western Honey Bee113 obs
  • Monarch97 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco96 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel96 obs
  • Mallard85 obs
  • Mourning Dove74 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird73 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/38745773

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