Park · California
Hoover Park
Hoover Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Poetry Wall, a artwork 0.3 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
What to expect
How to reach it
Coordinates37.43029, -122.12900
Named places within 25 miles
Artworks
- Poetry Wall: 0.3 mi
- Bloom: 0.8 mi
- Tilted Donut #5: 0.9 mi
- Sun Flowers: 0.9 mi
- Aeolis 10: 0.9 mi
Historic sites
- Indian Mounds: 0.3 mi
- Rafael Soto Home Site: 0.6 mi
- Nikola Tesla: 0.7 mi
- Uncle Jim’s Cabin: 1.0 mi
- Mayfield Farm, Homesite of Sarah Wallis: 1.0 mi
Gardens
- El Carmelo School Native Habitat Garden: 0.3 mi
- S.T.A. Parish Pastoral Garden: 0.4 mi
- Ventura Garden: 0.9 mi
- Rinconada Garden: 1.1 mi
- Elizabeth Gamble Gardens: 1.3 mi
Parks
- Jerry Bowden Park: 0.7 mi
- Henry W. Seale Park: 0.7 mi
- Boulware Park: 0.7 mi
- Stanford/Palo Alto Community Playing Fields: 0.9 mi
- Mitchell Park: 1.0 mi
Picnic sites
- East Meadow Individual Area: 0.9 mi
- East Meadow Group Area: 0.9 mi
- Arbor Group Area: 0.9 mi
- Redwood Individual Area: 1.0 mi
- Pine Grove Group Area: 1.1 mi
Museums
- Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo: 1.3 mi
- The Foster Museum: 1.7 mi
- Palo Alto History Museum: 1.8 mi
- Museum of American Heritage: 1.8 mi
- Hoover Tower: 2.1 mi
Attractions
- Hewlett Packard's Garage: 1.7 mi
- Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter: 2.1 mi
- Tower Well structure (historic): 2.4 mi
- El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 2.5 mi
- Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 2.6 mi
Peaks
- Coyote Hill: 2.4 mi
- Sand Hill: 5.0 mi
- Vista Hill: 5.3 mi
- Madera Point: 5.4 mi
- Elephant Mountain: 5.8 mi
Nature reserves
- Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Juan Prado Mesa Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: 6.0 mi
- Hidden Villa: 6.3 mi
Beaches: 45
- Niles beach: 12.3 mi
- Coyote Point Beach: 15.4 mi
- Aardvark Beach: 15.6 mi
- Tunitas Beach: 15.8 mi
- Martins Beach: 15.8 mi
Waterfalls: 15
- Peter's Creek Falls: 9.9 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 10.8 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 13.5 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 14.1 mi
- Butano Falls: 16.6 mi
Ghost towns: 14
- Drawbridge: 8.8 mi
- Stokes Landing: 11.4 mi
- Russell City: 15.4 mi
- Purissima: 15.9 mi
- Lexington: 17.9 mi
Springs: 11
- Spring source: 8.3 mi
- Summit Spring: 9.8 mi
- Summit Spring: 9.8 mi
- Travertine Springs: 13.2 mi
- Congress Springs: 13.4 mi
Cliffs: 7
- Graffiti Rock: 11.0 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 14.2 mi
- Underworld Rock: 14.2 mi
- Chab: 20.8 mi
- The Bluff: 20.8 mi
Rest areas: 1
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.7 miles of Hoover Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | S 172° | 985 m | 14.4 mi |
| Castle Rock | S 173° | 979 m | 14.1 mi |
| The Peak | SSE 168° | 917 m | 14.9 mi |
| Lookout Tower | S 175° | 892 m | 12.7 mi |
| Goat Rock | S 175° | 890 m | 14.0 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | SSE 167° | 880 m | 15.2 mi |
| Summit Rock | S 173° | 878 m | 13.2 mi |
| Varian Peak | S 177° | 873 m | 13.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:55 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 51 | 55 | 57 | 61 | 66 | 68 | 67 | 66 | 61 | 53 | 48 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palo Alto, 1 mi away.
- Western Honey Bee933 obs
- American Avocet829 obs
- Northern Shoveler716 obs
- Black-necked Stilt687 obs
- Mallard687 obs
- Black-crowned Night Heron659 obs
- Monarch592 obs
- Snowy Egret572 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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