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Jerry Bowden Park

Jerry Bowden Park from directly overhead

Jerry Bowden Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Bloom, a artwork 0.1 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
9 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.42952, -122.14088
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Historic sites
Parks
Gardens
Picnic sites
Museums
Attractions
  • Hewlett Packard's Garage: 1.2 mi
  • Tower Well structure (historic): 1.8 mi
  • Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 1.9 mi
  • Stem Cell Research information placards: 2.0 mi
  • El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 2.0 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Beaches: 46
Waterfalls: 15
Ghost towns: 14
Springs: 10
  • Spring source: 8.1 mi
  • Summit Spring: 9.1 mi
  • Summit Spring: 9.1 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 13.1 mi
  • Congress Springs: 13.6 mi
Cliffs: 7
  • Graffiti Rock: 11.2 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 14.2 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 14.3 mi
  • Chab: 20.9 mi
  • The Bluff: 21.5 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.7 miles of Jerry Bowden Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount BielawskiS 170°985 m14.5 mi
Castle RockS 170°979 m14.1 mi
The PeakSSE 165°917 m15.0 mi
Lookout TowerS 172°892 m12.8 mi
Goat RockS 173°890 m14.0 mi
Sunnyvale MountainSSE 165°880 m15.3 mi
Summit RockS 170°878 m13.2 mi
Varian PeakS 174°873 m13.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4619:21
June solstice05:4919:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3319:07
December solstice07:2016:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485155576166686766615348
Precip in2.93.22.21.00.40.10.00.00.10.61.62.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palo Alto, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Honey Bee963 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco585 obs
  • Monarch556 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel539 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird408 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard347 obs
  • Gray Buckeye331 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk305 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/27823025

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