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Granite Park

Granite Park from directly overhead

Granite Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 78 m. Shoemaker Hill stands 930 m to the northeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Granite Mini Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
78 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.67344, -121.17893
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Granite Mini Park: 0.0 mi
  • Boujohn Park: 0.2 mi
  • Young Wo Memorial Site: 0.3 mi
  • Preserve Mini Park: 0.3 mi
  • Lake Natoma Waterfront Park: 0.4 mi
Peaks: 58
  • Nedbelle Peak: 0.6 mi
  • Blisk Peak: 0.7 mi
  • Horse Shoe Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Volcano Hill: 3.6 mi
  • Carpenter Hill: 4.6 mi
Museums: 44
Historic sites: 42
Attractions: 39
  • Cameron Park CSD Pool: 9.5 mi
  • Southwind Labradors: 9.7 mi
  • Safetyville USA: 11.9 mi
  • Little Saigon: 17.8 mi
  • Sacramento Adventure Playground: 19.1 mi
Artworks: 36
Gardens: 28
  • Pheonix Community Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Ridgeview EcoLab: 4.3 mi
  • Prayer Garden: 9.4 mi
  • Border Garden: 12.7 mi
  • Yermol Memorial: 15.3 mi
Nature reserves: 17
  • Natomas Station Wildlife Area: 1.3 mi
  • Mormon Island Wetlands Natural Preserve: 3.9 mi
  • Miners Ravine Nature Reserve: 5.7 mi
  • Anderson Island Natural Preserve: 9.1 mi
  • Mahany Nature Reserve: 10.7 mi
Picnic sites: 14
Cliffs: 8
Beaches: 7
  • Laurel Beach: 0.9 mi
  • Moot Rock Beach: 1.3 mi
  • Horse Shoe Hill Shore: 1.4 mi
  • Pit Stop Beach: 13.5 mi
  • Oregon Bar: 14.7 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Waterfalls: 5
  • Leete Falls: 0.7 mi
  • Pecker Falls: 7.1 mi
  • Antelope Creek Falla: 9.3 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 20.2 mi
  • Rock Creek: 23.3 mi
Springs: 3
  • Huff Mineral Spring: 9.0 mi
  • Wetland Preserve: 9.4 mi
  • Spanish Spring: 22.4 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Granite Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Shoemaker HillNE 54°930 m24.8 mi
Mameluke HillNE 47°822 m24.6 mi
Round HillENE 63°775 m23.6 mi
Spanish HillENE 62°760 m22.3 mi
Negro HillENE 76°751 m22.9 mi
Bald HillNE 51°750 m22.5 mi
Union HillENE 75°719 m22.5 mi
Foster MountainENE 60°690 m21.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0918:4219:17
June solstice05:4119:5420:33
September equinox06:5318:2819:03
December solstice07:2016:0516:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495357616874787774665549
Precip in3.93.62.81.40.90.20.00.00.10.91.83.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sacramento 5 ESE, 15 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Pipevine Swallowtail328 obs
  • California buckeye254 obs
  • orange bush monkeyflower205 obs
  • Bald Eagle181 obs
  • California Dutchman's Pipe170 obs
  • Canada Goose141 obs
  • blue dicks131 obs
  • Wild Turkey126 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358836175

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