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Italian Society Park

Italian Society Park from directly overhead

Italian Society Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 485 m. Big Mountain stands 1,395 m to the northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Miners Bend Park, a park 0.9 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 25 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
485 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.37575, -120.80160

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Museums: 17
  • Knight Foundry: 1.2 mi
  • Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 1.3 mi
  • Monteverde Store Museum: 1.3 mi
  • Amador County Museum: 2.3 mi
  • Amador Whitney Museum: 3.2 mi
Attractions: 12
  • Kennedy Gold Mine: 1.3 mi
  • Sutter Gold Mine: 2.4 mi
  • Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 3.3 mi
  • The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 5.2 mi
  • Black Chasm Cavern: 10.3 mi
Historic sites: 9
  • Tailing Wheel No. 1: 1.6 mi
  • Massa Tunnel: 1.6 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 2: 1.6 mi
  • Flume Tressel Piers: 1.6 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 3: 1.7 mi
Springs: 5
  • Spanish Spring: 7.5 mi
  • Canzatti Spring: 15.5 mi
  • Marble Springs: 16.9 mi
  • Liddicoat Spring: 18.2 mi
  • Sugar Spring: 22.0 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Picnic sites: 3
  • A Picnic Area: 16.1 mi
  • B Picnic Area: 16.2 mi
  • C Picnic Area: 16.3 mi
Gardens: 2
  • F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 14.8 mi
  • Sherwood Demonstration Garden: 24.5 mi
Beaches: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Pecker Falls: 23.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.3 miles of Italian Society Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Big MountainNE 49°1,395 m21.2 mi
Bald MountainE 81°1,247 m19.6 mi
Mount CrossmanENE 67°1,184 m15.8 mi
Round MountainNE 42°1,063 m15.0 mi
Little MountainNE 43°1,029 m20.5 mi
Cement HillNE 39°1,018 m16.4 mi
Fort MountainE 97°999 m17.9 mi
Mount ZionE 83°899 m8.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4119:15
June solstice05:4019:5120:31
September equinox06:5218:2719:02
December solstice07:1816:0516:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F475052566371787773655447
Precip in6.15.74.92.81.70.40.00.00.21.73.15.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutter Hill CDF, under a mile away.

  • California Scrub-Jay17 obs
  • Red-shouldered Hawk9 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard9 obs
  • Turkey Vulture8 obs
  • Southern Alligator Lizard5 obs
  • miner's lettuce5 obs
  • California Gall Wasp5 obs
  • Wild Turkey4 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358768137

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