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Garfield Playground

Garfield Playground from directly overhead

Garfield Playground is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Rock 2 stands 617 m to the northeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Mulford Gardens Park, a park 0.1 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
6 m

How to reach it

Coordinates37.70406, -122.18464

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Rising Wave: 0.6 mi
  • Truth Is Beauty: 1.7 mi
  • Watermelon Rock: 2.4 mi
  • Duplex Cone: 3.0 mi
  • White Elephant Mural: 5.3 mi
Attractions
  • San Francisco Air Tours: 2.4 mi
  • Dunsmuir House and Gardens: 3.6 mi
  • Wallaroo: 3.7 mi
  • Emu: 3.7 mi
  • Muntjac: 3.7 mi
Historic sites
Picnic sites
  • Bufflehead: 2.9 mi
  • Egret: 2.9 mi
  • Tern: 2.9 mi
  • Rail: 2.9 mi
  • Blue Heron: 3.0 mi
Gardens
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Shellmound: 4.5 mi
  • High Street Center: 4.7 mi
  • Maderia Hill: 5.3 mi
  • Pine Top: 5.4 mi
  • Redwood Peak: 7.9 mi
Beaches: 54
Springs: 22
Ghost towns: 11
Cliffs: 8
Waterfalls: 6
Natural arches: 1
  • Bird Island Arch: 21.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.5 miles of Garfield Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rock 2NE 41°617 m10.2 mi
Vollmer PeakN 351°581 m12.6 mi
Wiedemann HillENE 77°565 m10.6 mi
Las Trampas PeakNE 36°557 m11.1 mi
Vail PeakNE 41°545 m11.1 mi
Chaparral PeakN 350°540 m12.2 mi
Round TopN 358°531 m10.1 mi
Grizzly PeakNNW 348°531 m12.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4819:5520:35
September equinox06:5718:3319:07
December solstice07:2116:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Dec.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F505355576063646565615550
Precip in3.43.52.71.40.60.20.00.00.10.92.03.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oakland Intl AP, 3 mi away.

  • California Ground Squirrel111 obs
  • Willet70 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull64 obs
  • California Gull59 obs
  • Rock Pigeon58 obs
  • Snowy Egret50 obs
  • Black-necked Stilt46 obs
  • American Avocet43 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 way/313350514

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