Fred Hesse Jr. Community Park
Fred Hesse Jr. Community Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 282 m. Temescal Peak stands 648 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Country Lane Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 22 miles off. 26 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 22.0 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Country Lane Park: 0.5 mi
- Highridge Park: 0.6 mi
- Zumaya Canyon: 0.8 mi
- Plaza Blanca: 0.9 mi
- Los Verdes Park: 1.1 mi
- Agua Amarga Reserve: 0.5 mi
- Vista del Norte Reserve: 1.2 mi
- Filiorum Reserve: 1.3 mi
- Three Sisters Reserve: 1.3 mi
- Vicente Bluffs Reserve: 1.6 mi
- Balancing Knowledge: 1.3 mi
- Pacific Gray Whale: 1.8 mi
- Soller I: 2.8 mi
- Teha: 3.0 mi
- Four Lines Oblique Gyratory- Square: 3.1 mi
- Point Vicente Park: 1.6 mi
- Battery Barnes 240: 1.7 mi
- Point Vicente Lighthouse: 1.9 mi
- Chowinga Indian Village: 2.4 mi
- Portuguese Bend Whaling Station: 3.2 mi
- Wayfarers Chapel: 1.8 mi
- Tiger Woods Point: 2.2 mi
- The Graben: 2.9 mi
- Battleship USS Iowa: 6.9 mi
- SS Lane Victory: 7.5 mi
- Point Vicente Interpretive Center: 1.8 mi
- Western Museum of Flight: 3.8 mi
- George F. Canyon Nature Center: 3.9 mi
- Lomita Railroad Museum: 4.8 mi
- Torrance Art Museum: 5.8 mi
- Pollination Garden: 2.9 mi
- Desert Garden: 2.9 mi
- Rose Garden: 2.9 mi
- Garden of the Senses: 2.9 mi
- South Coast Botanic Garden: 3.1 mi
- Ridgecrest Hill: 1.0 mi
- San Pedro Hill: 3.6 mi
- Signal Hill: 13.4 mi
- Landing Hill: 17.2 mi
- Baldwin Hills: 17.3 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 4.3 mi
- Royal Palms County Beach: 5.1 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 7.4 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 10.1 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 13.0 mi
- Day Camp: 4.5 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 8.7 mi
- Washington Park Picnic Area: 11.0 mi
- Common Grounds: 14.6 mi
- Mother's Beach: 15.8 mi
- Temescal Falls: 22.4 mi
- Santa Ynez Falls: 24.6 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 5.0 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 7.2 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 19.6 mi
- Spa Palace: 21.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fred Hesse Jr. Community Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temescal Peak | NNW 338° | 648 m | 24.9 mi |
| Green Peak | NNW 338° | 590 m | 23.8 mi |
| Silver Peak | SSW 205° | 550 m | 23.5 mi |
| Goat Peak (High Point) | NNW 339° | 527 m | 22.6 mi |
| Briar Summit | N 3° | 454 m | 24.9 mi |
| San Pedro Hill | ESE 114° | 449 m | 3.6 mi |
| Slide 2 | SSW 207° | 419 m | 23.9 mi |
| Mount Torquemada | SSW 198° | 407.2 m | 24.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:19 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:11 | 16:50 |
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 | 57 | 57 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 70 | 70 | 66 | 61 | 56 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Torrance AP, 4 mi away.
- Western Fence Lizard703 obs
- lemonade berry387 obs
- California brittlebush347 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk280 obs
- Milk Snail270 obs
- Desert Cottontail241 obs
- Western Honey Bee234 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow217 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/46908449
Day trips start here
- Gardena · 10 mi
- Hawthorne · 11 mi
- Compton · 13 mi
- Inglewood · 13 mi
- Westchester · 13 mi
- Long Beach · 14 mi
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