Park · California
Cuesta Park
Cuesta Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 44 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Cuesta Pollinator Habitat, a garden 0.1 miles away.
What to expect
How to reach it
Coordinates37.37232, -122.08112
Named places within 25 miles
Gardens
- Cuesta Pollinator Habitat: 0.1 mi
- Sister City Friendship rock garden: 1.2 mi
- Water-wise Demonstration Garden: 1.2 mi
- Drought Demonstration Garden: 2.0 mi
- Senior Center Community Garden: 2.0 mi
Picnic sites
- Bubb Park picnic area: 0.4 mi
- Patriot Corner Picnic Area: 2.1 mi
- Rancho San Antonio Picnic Area: 2.7 mi
- Braly Picnic #1: 3.4 mi
- Braly Picnic #2: 3.4 mi
Parks
- Bubb Park: 0.4 mi
- Varsity Park: 0.5 mi
- Cooper Park: 0.5 mi
- Mountain View Sports Pavillion: 0.6 mi
- Graham School Park: 0.6 mi
Historic sites
- Blue and Gold Kennel Club: 0.6 mi
- J. Gilbert Smith House: 1.8 mi
- Ohlone Indian Village Town of Los Altos Hills Historical Site No. 1: 2.0 mi
- St. Joseph's College: 2.7 mi
- Birthplace of Silicon Valley, 1956: 2.8 mi
Artworks
- Boy and Girl Playing in the Calla Lilly Field: 1.2 mi
- Toad's Book Club: 1.2 mi
- A Tribute To American Resolve: 1.3 mi
- Day on the Serengeti: 1.4 mi
- Convolute of the Square: 1.4 mi
Museums
- Los Altos History Museum: 1.8 mi
- Computer History Museum: 2.9 mi
- Ohlone Village: 2.9 mi
- Moffett Field Model Railroad Club: 3.1 mi
- Moffett Field Historical Society Museum: 3.1 mi
Nature reserves
- Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 2.1 mi
- Juan Prado Mesa Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 4.3 mi
Attractions
- Plaza del Sol: 2.7 mi
- Plaza del Sol Labyrinth: 2.8 mi
- Lockheed P-3 Orion: 3.0 mi
- Fujitsu Planetarium: 4.2 mi
- Pandemonium Aviaries Sculpture: 4.4 mi
Peaks
- Anza Knoll: 3.0 mi
- Ewing Hill: 4.1 mi
- Coyote Hill: 4.1 mi
- Elephant Mountain: 4.3 mi
- Black Mountain: 5.3 mi
Beaches: 40
- Niles beach: 14.9 mi
- Tunitas Beach: 17.6 mi
- San Gregorio Private Beach: 17.9 mi
- Martins Beach: 18.0 mi
- San Gregorio Beach: 18.1 mi
Waterfalls: 18
- Peter's Creek Falls: 7.4 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 7.7 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 10.2 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 11.5 mi
- Sempervirens Falls: 15.0 mi
Springs: 17
- Spring source: 6.0 mi
- Congress Springs: 8.9 mi
- Travertine Springs: 9.7 mi
- Summit Spring: 12.9 mi
- Summit Spring: 12.9 mi
Ghost towns: 14
- Drawbridge: 8.7 mi
- Lexington: 13.2 mi
- Alma: 14.4 mi
- Stokes Landing: 15.8 mi
- Holy City: 15.9 mi
Cliffs: 8
- Graffiti Rock: 6.6 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 10.1 mi
- Underworld Rock: 10.1 mi
- The Bluff: 19.8 mi
- Waddell Bluffs: 21.7 mi
Covered bridges: 2
- Felton Covered Bridge: 22.2 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 22.2 mi
Rest areas: 1
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.4 miles of Cuesta Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | S 184° | 985 m | 10.3 mi |
| Castle Rock | S 185° | 979 m | 10.0 mi |
| The Peak | S 177° | 917 m | 10.6 mi |
| Lookout Tower | S 190° | 892 m | 8.8 mi |
| Goat Rock | S 188° | 890 m | 10.1 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | S 176° | 880 m | 10.8 mi |
| Summit Rock | S 186° | 878 m | 9.1 mi |
| Varian Peak | S 191° | 873 m | 10.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:54 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 51 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 64 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moffett FED Airfield, 3 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel353 obs
- Monarch335 obs
- American Crow247 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco225 obs
- Western Honey Bee213 obs
- House Finch179 obs
- Anna's Hummingbird170 obs
- Mourning Dove168 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/17753335
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