Park · California
Gilman Playground
Gilman Playground is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Montara Mountain North Peak stands 570 m to the south-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Bayview Park, a park 0.3 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
What to expect
How to reach it
Coordinates37.71709, -122.38789
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Bayview Park: 0.3 mi
- Candlestick Point State Recreation Area: 0.4 mi
- Yosemite Slough: 0.5 mi
- Bayview Playground: 0.7 mi
- Little Hollywood Park: 0.7 mi
Peaks
- Bay View Hill: 0.3 mi
- Stony Hill: 1.2 mi
- Visitacion Knob: 1.9 mi
- Icehouse Hill: 1.9 mi
- Bernal Hill: 2.4 mi
Artworks
- Bayview Gateway: 0.6 mi
- Hilltop Park Sundial: 1.1 mi
- Lenora Le Von: 1.2 mi
- Flights of Fancy: 1.2 mi
- The Box Shop Mural Project: 1.3 mi
Gardens
- Latona Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Visitacion Valley Greenway Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Adam Rodgers Park Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Florence Fang Asian Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Quesada Gardens: 1.2 mi
Attractions
- Hidden Bridge: 1.5 mi
- Hidden Bridge: 1.5 mi
- Hidden Bridge: 1.5 mi
- Philosopher's Hill and Labyrinth: 1.8 mi
- Bradford Street: 1.8 mi
Historic sites
- Alex Nieto Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Costaños Canyon Raccoon: 2.8 mi
- The First Dynamite Factory In America: 3.1 mi
- Mexico's Liberty Bell: 3.6 mi
- Diamond Heights Safety Wall: 3.7 mi
Museums
- Museum of Craft and Design: 2.8 mi
- Letterform Archive: 3.0 mi
- Southern Exposure: 3.2 mi
- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts: 3.4 mi
- Misalignment Museum: 3.5 mi
Beaches: 60
- Crane Cove Beach: 3.2 mi
- Phillip Burton Memorial Beach: 6.3 mi
- Encinal beach: 6.4 mi
- East Beach: 7.1 mi
- Marshall's Beach: 7.7 mi
Picnic sites
- West Portal Playground Picnic Area: 4.6 mi
- Greg & Bev James Picnic Area: 6.3 mi
- Udo & Jürgen's place: 6.9 mi
- Neptune: 7.0 mi
- Sandcastle: 7.1 mi
Nature reserves
- Fort Funston: 6.3 mi
- Crab Cove Marine Reserve: 6.9 mi
- San Francisco State Fish and Game Refuge: 7.9 mi
- Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline: 9.8 mi
- Spencer Lake Open Space: 10.1 mi
Springs: 14
- El Polín Spring: 6.4 mi
- El Polín Spring: 6.4 mi
- El Polín Spring: 6.4 mi
- Old Spring: 12.2 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 17.1 mi
Waterfalls: 13
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 1.5 mi
- Huntington Falls: 5.9 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 6.2 mi
- Kent Falls: 15.6 mi
- Dawn Falls: 18.0 mi
Cliffs: 7
- Yellow Bluff: 9.4 mi
- Aramai Point: 9.8 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 13.8 mi
- Chab: 14.2 mi
- Vent 5: 16.8 mi
Ghost towns: 5
- Lynn: 10.3 mi
- Russell City: 14.6 mi
- Stokes Landing: 15.7 mi
- Winehaven: 16.3 mi
- Purissima: 21.8 mi
Lighthouses: 3
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 6.4 mi
- Quarters A: 6.4 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 10.3 mi
Natural arches: 1
- Bird Island Arch: 11.0 mi
Rest areas: 1
Hot springs: 1
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 17.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Gilman Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montara Mountain North Peak | SSW 205° | 570 m | 11.8 mi |
| Peak Mountain | SSW 206° | 545 m | 12.0 mi |
| South Peak | SSW 204° | 545 m | 12.2 mi |
| San Bruno Mountain Summit | SW 232° | 371 m | 3.3 mi |
| Richardson East | NNW 327° | 338.6 m | 11.1 mi |
| San Pedro Mountain | SSW 213° | 325 m | 11.9 mi |
| Peak 1041 | NW 322° | 317.297 m | 12.1 mi |
| Mount Davidson | WNW 292° | 283 m | 3.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:56 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
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 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 62 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Francisco Dwtn, 4 mi away.
- California poppy329 obs
- Willet323 obs
- Snowy Egret313 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow285 obs
- American Avocet278 obs
- Black Oystercatcher277 obs
- Great Blue Heron275 obs
- coyote brush255 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.
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