Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park
Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 726 m. Blue Mountain stands 1,835 m to the east-southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Chaw'se Regional Indian Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off.
How to reach it
- 19.4 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Liberty Vista Point · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pine Grove Park: 1.2 mi
- Soldiers Memorial Park: 1.4 mi
- Tabeaud Lake picnic spot: 5.2 mi
- Lake Tabeaud: 5.2 mi
- Tabeaud Picnic Tables: 5.2 mi
- Mount Zion: 2.4 mi
- Clinton Peak: 3.6 mi
- Mount Crossman: 6.5 mi
- Jackson Butte: 7.2 mi
- Ohio Hill: 7.9 mi
- Chaw'se Regional Indian Museum: 0.0 mi
- Amador County Model Railroad Museum: 1.2 mi
- Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 8.5 mi
- Chew Kee Store: 8.5 mi
- Amador County Museum: 8.7 mi
- Canzatti Spring: 6.3 mi
- Marble Springs: 9.2 mi
- Liddicoat Spring: 9.7 mi
- Sugar Spring: 12.8 mi
- Spanish Spring: 15.7 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 3: 8.3 mi
- Massa Tunnel: 8.4 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 2: 8.4 mi
- Flume Tressel Piers: 8.4 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 1: 8.4 mi
- Black Chasm Cavern: 1.0 mi
- Kennedy Gold Mine: 8.5 mi
- Sutter Gold Mine: 9.3 mi
- Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 10.0 mi
- The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 11.4 mi
- Middle Bar: 10.5 mi
- Logtown: 18.4 mi
- Michigan Bar: 22.5 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 16.3 mi
- Sherwood Demonstration Garden: 24.2 mi
- McKays Point: 22.5 mi
- Calaveras Dome: 22.9 mi
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park: 23.2 mi
- Calaveras South Grove Natural Preserve: 24.9 mi
- Oak Leaf: 23.0 mi
- Bridal Veil Falls: 25.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.5 miles of Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountain | ESE 111° | 1,835 m | 16.0 mi |
| Armstrong Hill | ENE 60° | 1,735 m | 16.1 mi |
| Buck Mountain | ESE 103° | 1,566 m | 15.0 mi |
| Devils Nose | ENE 77° | 1,445 m | 12.3 mi |
| Big Mountain | NE 35° | 1,395 m | 12.9 mi |
| Lincoln Hill | NNE 25° | 1,379 m | 18.1 mi |
| Manuel Peak | SE 132° | 1,354 m | 18.5 mi |
| Big Butte | NNE 14° | 1,306 m | 18.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:51 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:04 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 50 | 52 | 56 | 63 | 71 | 78 | 77 | 73 | 65 | 54 | 47 |
| Precip in | 6.1 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutter Hill CDF, 9 mi away.
- Pacific madrone64 obs
- showy milkweed42 obs
- California incense-cedar40 obs
- Mountain Misery39 obs
- Yellow Star-tulip31 obs
- valley oak23 obs
- Menzies' baby blue eyes23 obs
- Wild Turkey22 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/40180173
Day trips start here
- Placerville · 23 mi
- Coloma · 29 mi
- El Dorado Hills · 30 mi
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