Independence Park
Independence Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 30 m. Mount Wilson stands 1,737 m to the north, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Discovery Sports Complex, a park 0.5 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 12 miles off.
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Discovery Sports Complex: 0.5 mi
- Byron Zinn Park: 1.1 mi
- T. Mayne Thompson Park: 1.1 mi
- Brookshire Children's Park: 1.1 mi
- Foster Road Greenbelt: 1.1 mi
- Apollo Boilerplate 12: 0.5 mi
- Little India: 4.6 mi
- Citadel Outlets: 6.3 mi
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Cypress: 7.2 mi
- Pirates Dinner Adventure: 8.6 mi
- Columbia Memorial Space Center: 0.6 mi
- McDonald's Museum: 2.0 mi
- Downey Art Museum: 2.4 mi
- Hathaway Ranch Museum: 2.8 mi
- Carpenter House Museum: 2.8 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Norwalk Square: 2.6 mi
- Freedom Memorial: 3.0 mi
- Paramount Veterans Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Paramount Mayors on Stone Plaques: 3.2 mi
- McDonald's Sign: 2.0 mi
- Founders Plaza: 3.2 mi
- Bogey & Scratch: 3.9 mi
- A City Evolves: 4.1 mi
- Spring Star: 4.2 mi
- Paramount Cortland Community Garden: 3.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial Garden: 4.3 mi
- Cerritos Sculpture Garden: 4.9 mi
- GrowGood Urban Farm: 5.4 mi
- community gardens: 5.9 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 7.2 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 8.0 mi
- Bosque del Rio Hondo Natural Area: 8.2 mi
- Dominguez Nature Preserve: 9.0 mi
- Montebello Hills: 7.8 mi
- Whittier Hill: 8.5 mi
- Workman Hill: 8.5 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 8.6 mi
- Signal Hill: 8.6 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 8.9 mi
- Mother's Beach: 11.2 mi
- Hidden Valley: 12.0 mi
- Creekside: 12.1 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 12.3 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 13.9 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 14.0 mi
- Washout Falls: 14.0 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 14.0 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 15.7 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 11.1 mi
- Mother's Beach: 11.1 mi
- Bolsa Chica State Beach: 16.1 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 16.5 mi
- Cabrillo Beach: 17.1 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 19.9 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 21.0 mi
- McDermont Spring: 22.1 mi
- Big Cienega Spring: 24.2 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 18.4 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 23.4 mi
- Spa Palace: 12.6 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 17.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Independence Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Wilson | N 10° | 1,737 m | 21.3 mi |
| Mount Harvard | N 10° | 1,640 m | 20.6 mi |
| Mount Yale | N 10° | 1,451 m | 20.0 mi |
| Muir Peak | N 3° | 1,427 m | 20.5 mi |
| Clamshell Peak | NNE 20° | 1,338 m | 20.8 mi |
| West Fuji | N 3° | 1,121.969 m | 20.0 mi |
| Mount Bliss | NNE 28° | 1,121 m | 20.8 mi |
| Mount Zion | NNE 15° | 1,091 m | 21.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:31 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
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 | 57 | 58 | 60 | 63 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 74 | 73 | 68 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Long Beach Daugherty AP, 8 mi away.
- Mallard125 obs
- Rock Pigeon72 obs
- House Sparrow70 obs
- Western Honey Bee68 obs
- Northern Mockingbird59 obs
- Western Fence Lizard53 obs
- Monarch50 obs
- Muscovy Duck49 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/469564992
Day trips start here
- Gateway Cities · 0 mi
- Downey · 2 mi
- Norwalk · 2 mi
- Bellflower · 3 mi
- Santa Fe Springs · 3 mi
- Artesia · 4 mi
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