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Fiddleneck Day Use Area

Fiddleneck Day Use Area from directly overhead

Fiddleneck Day Use Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 238 m. Mount Zion stands 899 m to the north-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Acorn Recreation Area, a park 0.7 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 24 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
238 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.16770, -120.79827

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Museums: 12
Historic sites: 12
  • Tailing Wheel No. 3: 13.6 mi
  • Flume Tressel Piers: 13.6 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 2: 13.6 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 1: 13.6 mi
  • Massa Tunnel: 13.7 mi
Attractions: 10
Springs: 9
  • Gooseberry Spring: 12.5 mi
  • Hicks Spring: 14.4 mi
  • Turners Spring: 15.7 mi
  • Spanish Spring: 18.5 mi
  • Churchs Spring: 19.2 mi
Picnic sites: 5
  • Heron Point Day Use: 19.8 mi
  • A Picnic Area: 19.8 mi
  • C Picnic Area: 19.8 mi
  • B Picnic Area: 19.8 mi
  • Lupine Day Use Area: 20.3 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Cliffs: 3
Beaches: 2
Gardens: 1
  • F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 7.3 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridge: 19.1 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • National Recreation Area: 20.5 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.6 miles of Fiddleneck Day Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount ZionNNE 27°899 m17.3 mi
Bear MountainSE 131°879 m15.5 mi
Joaquin PeakESE 107°854 m6.1 mi
Quiggs MountainENE 67°843 m10.9 mi
Soapstone HillE 97°799 m16.2 mi
Carmen PeakSE 137°786 m10.8 mi
High MountainE 89°748 m15.6 mi
Clinton PeakNNE 24°733 m16.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4119:15
June solstice05:4119:5120:30
September equinox06:5218:2719:02
December solstice07:1716:0616:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485155596673797875665548
Precip in4.03.83.62.11.30.30.00.00.21.12.24.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Camp Pardee, 6 mi away.

  • Mule Deer15 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard13 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog12 obs
  • Canada Goose11 obs
  • California Scrub-Jay11 obs
  • Turkey Vulture9 obs
  • Sacred Datura9 obs
  • Western Toad9 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/358832937

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