Diaz Lake Recreation Area
Diaz Lake Recreation Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,120 m. Mount Whitney stands 4,420 m to the west, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Spring, a spring 1.5 miles away. Death Valley Scenic Byway passes 28 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1120 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Inyo County Parks and Recreation
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 27.6 mi off the Death Valley Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Haystack: 4.8 mi
- Wonoga Peak: 6.5 mi
- Long John Point: 6.5 mi
- Owens Point: 7.0 mi
- Timosea Peak: 7.4 mi
- Indian Spring: 1.5 mi
- French Spring: 8.5 mi
- Reinhackle Spring: 9.3 mi
- Goat Springs: 9.9 mi
- Bed Spring: 11.2 mi
- Sherwood Forest Tree: 3.8 mi
- Yellow Sky (movie site): 4.3 mi
- Lone Ranger Canyon (movie site): 4.5 mi
- Django Unchained (movie site): 4.5 mi
- Seven Men from Now (movie site): 5.0 mi
- Mount Whitney Pack Trains: 2.9 mi
- Cousin Jack: 3.1 mi
- Old dump truck bed: 6.2 mi
- Headframe: 6.2 mi
- Walt's Point: 7.0 mi
- Gunga Din Arch: 3.7 mi
- Palette Arch: 3.8 mi
- Taco Bell Arch: 4.0 mi
- Hitching Post Arch: 4.1 mi
- Heart Arch: 5.3 mi
- Administration Circle Garden: 12.4 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 12.5 mi
- Bk 9 Mess Hall Garden: 12.5 mi
- Barracks Garden: 12.6 mi
- Barracks Garden: 12.6 mi
- Dirty Socks Hot Spring: 17.1 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 20.3 mi
- Children's Tub: 22.9 mi
- Crystal Pool: 23.0 mi
- Bat Pool: 23.0 mi
- Rock Candy Tower: 3.5 mi
- Tootsie Pop Tower: 3.6 mi
- Chocolate Block: 3.6 mi
- Southern Blonde Rock: 3.7 mi
- Paul's Paradise: 4.9 mi
- Swansea: 8.8 mi
- Keeler: 11.3 mi
- Cerro Gordo Mines: 14.5 mi
- Cerro Gordo,California, United States: 14.5 mi
- San Carlos: 17.2 mi
- Museum of Western Film History: 2.7 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 3.1 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 12.6 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 18.5 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 18.5 mi
- Spainhower Park: 3.3 mi
- Merritt Park: 12.9 mi
- Independence Park: 18.1 mi
- Dehy Park: 18.7 mi
- Chagoopa Falls: 21.0 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 21.6 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 21.9 mi
- Volcano Falls: 23.7 mi
- Miss Alabama: 3.4 mi
- Paiute Mural: 12.8 mi
- Bat Pole: 20.7 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 10.5 mi
- Cartago Wildlife Area: 16.6 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.0 miles of Diaz Lake Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Whitney | W 275° | 4,419.6 m | 13.2 mi |
| Mount Williamson | WNW 295° | 4,383 m | 15.6 mi |
| Keeler Needle | W 274° | 4,361.2 m | 13.2 mi |
| Crooks Peak | W 274° | 4,341.7 m | 13.1 mi |
| Lewis Peak | W 274° | 4,306.7 m | 13.1 mi |
| Mount Russell | W 279° | 4,296 m | 13.3 mi |
| Aiguille Extra | W 273° | 4,289 m | 13.1 mi |
| Mount Langley | WSW 256° | 4,277 m | 10.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:36 | 20:15 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:17 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:01 | 16:01 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 18 mi away.
- Yellow-headed Blackbird59 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle44 obs
- Yerba Mansa40 obs
- Brewer's Blackbird39 obs
- narrowleaf milkweed30 obs
- Western Pygmy-Blue20 obs
- House Sparrow19 obs
- alkali heliotrope17 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.
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