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Escondido Mall

Escondido Mall from directly overhead

Escondido Mall is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 22 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is The Claw, a artwork 0.1 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 22 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.42636, -122.17064

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks

The Claw: 0.1 mi
The Burghers of Calais: 0.1 mi
Gay Liberation: 0.1 mi
Luna Moth Walk I: 0.2 mi
The Stanford Legacy: 0.2 mi

Parks

Lasuen Mall: 0.1 mi
Meyer Green: 0.2 mi
Galvez Mall: 0.3 mi
Koret Plaza: 0.5 mi
Frenchman's Park: 0.9 mi

Gardens

Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden: 0.2 mi
Lane B Community Garden: 0.4 mi
Rodin Sculpture Garden: 0.4 mi
Arizona Garden: 0.7 mi
EV South Garden: 0.7 mi

Museums

Hoover Tower: 0.2 mi
Anderson Collection at Stanford University: 0.5 mi
Palo Alto History Museum: 1.4 mi
Museum of American Heritage: 1.4 mi
Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo: 1.9 mi

Picnic sites

Oak Grove: 0.4 mi
EBF Picnic: 0.5 mi
Steve and Loli Sy Oak Grove: 0.7 mi
East Meadow Individual Area: 3.0 mi
East Meadow Group Area: 3.0 mi

Historic sites

Chanel Miller Contemplative Garden: 0.4 mi
In Memory of Charles A. “Chuck” Taylor: 0.6 mi
In Memory of Glenn S. “Pop” Warner: 0.6 mi
California Registered State Landmark No 834: 0.7 mi
Memorial Tablet: 1.1 mi

Attractions

Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 0.5 mi
Stem Cell Research information placards: 0.5 mi
Tower Well structure (historic): 1.4 mi
Hewlett Packard's Garage: 1.4 mi
El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 1.4 mi

Peaks

Coyote Hill: 2.3 mi
Sand Hill: 2.7 mi
Vista Hill: 4.2 mi
Madera Point: 4.2 mi
Eagle Hill: 5.2 mi

Nature reserves

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: 3.8 mi
Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 4.6 mi
Native Plant Preserve (Kite Hill): 4.7 mi
Wunderlich County Park: 5.6 mi
Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 5.8 mi

Beaches47

Martins Beach: 13.6 mi
Tunitas Beach: 13.6 mi
Niles beach: 13.9 mi
Whale Bone Beach: 14.1 mi
Coyote Point Beach: 14.1 mi

Waterfalls15

Peter's Creek Falls: 9.4 mi
Gerow's Waterfall: 10.5 mi
Tip Toe Falls: 12.6 mi
Castle Rock Falls: 14.3 mi
Butano Falls: 15.1 mi

Ghost towns14

Drawbridge: 11.1 mi
Stokes Landing: 11.7 mi
Purissima: 13.6 mi
Russell City: 15.8 mi
Lexington: 18.8 mi

Springs10

Summit Spring: 7.5 mi
Summit Spring: 7.5 mi
Spring source: 7.8 mi
Travertine Springs: 13.0 mi
Congress Springs: 14.0 mi

Cliffs7

Graffiti Rock: 11.6 mi
Underworld Rock: 14.4 mi
Lyme Disease Rock: 14.4 mi
Chab: 21.2 mi
Aramai Point: 21.9 mi

Rest areas1

Crystal Springs Safety Roadside Rest Area: 13.1 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.6 miles of Escondido Mall. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Mount Bielawski	SSE 163°	985 m	14.7 mi
Castle Rock	SSE 163°	979 m	14.3 mi
The Peak	SSE 159°	917 m	15.3 mi
Lookout Tower	SSE 165°	892 m	12.9 mi
Goat Rock	SSE 166°	890 m	14.1 mi
Sunnyvale Mountain	SSE 159°	880 m	15.6 mi
Summit Rock	SSE 163°	878 m	13.4 mi
Varian Peak	SSE 167°	873 m	13.9 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:13	18:46	19:21
June solstice	05:49	19:55	20:34
September equinox	06:57	18:33	19:07
December solstice	07:20	16:14	16:55

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	48	51	55	57	61	66	68	67	66	61	53	48
Precip in	2.9	3.2	2.2	1.0	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.6	1.6	2.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palo Alto, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby

Western Honey Bee890 obs
Western Fence Lizard811 obs
Dark-eyed Junco781 obs
Eastern Gray Squirrel587 obs
Red-tailed Hawk532 obs
California Ground Squirrel493 obs
Monarch423 obs
Acorn Woodpecker387 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.

OpenStreetMap Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358816595

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