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El Camino Field

El Camino Field from directly overhead

El Camino Field is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 16 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Steve and Loli Sy Oak Grove, a picnic site 0.3 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
16 m

How to reach it

Coordinates37.43438, -122.15580

Named places within 25 miles

Picnic sites
Historic sites
Parks
  • Peers Park: 0.5 mi
  • Koret Plaza: 0.5 mi
  • Scott Park: 0.6 mi
  • Bowling Green Park: 0.6 mi
  • Heritage Park: 0.7 mi
Gardens
Artworks
Attractions
  • Hewlett Packard's Garage: 0.6 mi
  • Tower Well structure (historic): 1.0 mi
  • Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 1.1 mi
  • Stem Cell Research information placards: 1.2 mi
  • El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 1.2 mi
Peaks
  • Coyote Hill: 2.5 mi
  • Sand Hill: 3.6 mi
  • Vista Hill: 4.9 mi
  • Madera Point: 5.0 mi
  • Eagle Hill: 5.6 mi
Beaches: 46
Waterfalls: 15
Ghost towns: 13
Springs: 10
  • Summit Spring: 8.3 mi
  • Summit Spring: 8.3 mi
  • Spring source: 8.4 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 13.5 mi
  • Congress Springs: 14.2 mi
Cliffs: 7
  • Graffiti Rock: 11.8 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 14.7 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 14.8 mi
  • Chab: 20.6 mi
  • The Bluff: 22.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.2 miles of El Camino Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount BielawskiSSE 167°985 m15.0 mi
Castle RockSSE 167°979 m14.6 mi
The PeakSSE 163°917 m15.6 mi
Lookout TowerS 169°892 m13.2 mi
Goat RockS 170°890 m14.5 mi
Sunnyvale MountainSSE 162°880 m15.9 mi
Summit RockSSE 167°878 m13.7 mi
Varian PeakS 171°873 m14.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4919:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3319:07
December solstice07:2016:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485155576166686766615348
Precip in2.93.22.21.00.40.10.00.00.10.61.62.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palo Alto, 1 mi away.

  • Western Honey Bee1,000 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco817 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard796 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel659 obs
  • Monarch530 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk436 obs
  • California Ground Squirrel400 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird389 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358816590

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