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Harvard Playground

Harvard Playground from directly overhead

Harvard Playground is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 42 m. Mount Lowe stands 1,699 m to the north-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Chesterfield Square Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 6.3 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
42 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates33.98405, -118.30501

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Chesterfield Square Park: 0.8 mi
  • Hoover-Gage Park: 1.0 mi
  • Mount Carmel Recreation Center: 1.1 mi
  • Vermont Square Park: 1.2 mi
  • Vermont Square: 1.2 mi
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Gardens
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Baldwin Hills: 5.0 mi
  • Maltman peak: 7.3 mi
  • Silverlake peak: 7.8 mi
  • Micheltorena peak: 7.9 mi
  • Olive Hill: 8.0 mi
Picnic sites: 39
  • Burke-Roche Picnic Area: 3.6 mi
  • Picnic Central: 4.0 mi
  • Garden Grove: 4.1 mi
  • Blue Lagoon: 4.1 mi
  • Lake Side: 4.2 mi
Waterfalls: 20
  • Temescal Falls: 14.5 mi
  • Santa Ynez Falls: 16.8 mi
  • Mayberg Waterfall: 17.9 mi
  • Eaton Canyon Waterfall: 18.7 mi
  • Millard Falls: 18.7 mi
Beaches: 19
Springs: 10
  • Kuruvungna Springs: 9.7 mi
  • Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 16.5 mi
  • Eagle Spring: 17.3 mi
  • Goldenrod Spring: 21.2 mi
  • Fascination Spring: 21.3 mi
Cliffs: 3
Hot springs: 1
  • Spa Palace: 5.4 mi
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Harvard Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LoweNNE 34°1,699 m20.5 mi
Mount LukensN 11°1,546.6 m20.0 mi
Mount YaleNE 42°1,451 m20.6 mi
Muir PeakNE 36°1,427 m19.8 mi
Brown MountainNNE 27°1,363 m19.7 mi
West FujiNE 36°1,121.969 m19.2 mi
Jones PeakNE 46°1,029 m20.1 mi
Lookout PointNE 45°987 m20.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3219:05
June solstice05:4319:3120:08
September equinox06:4218:1818:51
December solstice06:5616:1016:49

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F585961646669737574696358
Precip in3.33.62.20.70.30.10.00.00.10.60.82.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Angeles Downtown/usc, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch65 obs
  • Western Honey Bee59 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel57 obs
  • Southern Alligator Lizard55 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider53 obs
  • House Sparrow42 obs
  • Garden Snail40 obs
  • Common Pill Woodlouse36 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 way/136730406

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