Friends Park
Friends Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 91 m. Mount Markham stands 1,746 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Flukes, a artwork 0.3 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 12 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 91 m
How to reach it
- 12.0 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Flukes: 0.3 mi
- Crab Louis: 0.4 mi
- The Dress: 0.5 mi
- From the Tree: 0.5 mi
- The Arch: 0.5 mi
- Lee & Erika Owens Park: 0.4 mi
- Central Park: 0.6 mi
- William Penn Park: 0.6 mi
- John Greenleaf Whittier Park: 0.6 mi
- Michigan Park: 0.9 mi
- Whittier Museum: 0.6 mi
- Hathaway Ranch Museum: 3.7 mi
- Sproul Museum: 5.0 mi
- Rowland & Dibble Museum: 5.0 mi
- Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum: 5.1 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 0.8 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 1.6 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 1.7 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 2.9 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 3.7 mi
- Workman Hill: 2.2 mi
- Whittier Hill: 2.3 mi
- Montebello Hills: 5.3 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 5.9 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 6.9 mi
- Garden of the Innocent: 2.2 mi
- Mystic Garden: 2.4 mi
- Imperial Gardens: 2.5 mi
- Pinewood Urn Garden: 2.6 mi
- Fountain Urn Gardens: 2.8 mi
- LA-14 Nike Missile Site: 3.3 mi
- Freedom Memorial: 4.5 mi
- Valley View Farms Business Center Plaque: 4.8 mi
- Valley View Farms History Tour Marker: 4.8 mi
- Avocado Heights Oak Tree Memorial: 5.2 mi
- M3 Lee: 5.6 mi
- M3 Lee: 5.6 mi
- Apollo Boilerplate 12: 6.8 mi
- Citadel Outlets: 7.2 mi
- Little India: 8.1 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Hidden Valley: 6.1 mi
- Creekside: 6.1 mi
- Covered Picnic Area: 9.4 mi
- Picnic Area 2: 10.7 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 11.6 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 13.0 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 13.2 mi
- Washout Falls: 13.2 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 13.2 mi
- Mother's Beach: 15.6 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 16.4 mi
- Bolsa Chica State Beach: 19.3 mi
- Bolsa Chica State Beach: 21.3 mi
- Huntington City Beach: 22.3 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 14.7 mi
- McDermont Spring: 17.2 mi
- Big Cienega Spring: 17.9 mi
- Fern Springs: 19.9 mi
- Doe Spring: 22.7 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 20.9 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 24.6 mi
- Spa Palace: 14.7 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Friends Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Markham | NNW 348° | 1,746 m | 18.6 mi |
| Mount Wilson | N 355° | 1,737 m | 17.4 mi |
| Occidental Peak | N 351° | 1,736 m | 18.3 mi |
| Mount Lowe | NNW 347° | 1,699 m | 18.3 mi |
| Monrovia Peak | NNE 12° | 1,649 m | 17.0 mi |
| Mount Harvard | N 354° | 1,640 m | 16.7 mi |
| Rankin Peak | NNE 12° | 1,606 m | 16.6 mi |
| Mount Yale | N 354° | 1,451 m | 16.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:30 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:17 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 06:54 | 16:09 | 16:48 |
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 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 67 | 71 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fullerton Muni AP, 8 mi away.
- Monarch222 obs
- Western Fence Lizard164 obs
- Arizona Mantis159 obs
- Gray Bird Grasshopper135 obs
- Western Honey Bee134 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel82 obs
- Fiery Skipper75 obs
- Southern Alligator Lizard67 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/395180478
Day trips start here
- Whittier · 1 mi
- Santa Fe Springs · 3 mi
- Hacienda Heights · 4 mi
- Pico Rivera · 4 mi
- La Mirada · 5 mi
- Norwalk · 5 mi
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