Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park
Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 396 m. Devils Nose stands 1,445 m to the east-northeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Flume Tressel Piers, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 24 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 396 m
How to reach it
- 23.8 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Ohio Hill: 0.6 mi
- Tunnel Hill: 1.9 mi
- Jackson Butte: 3.4 mi
- Goat Hill: 4.7 mi
- Bunker Hill: 4.8 mi
- Detert Park: 0.6 mi
- Plaza Park: 1.1 mi
- Italian Society Park: 1.6 mi
- Gold Ridge Park: 1.7 mi
- Miners Bend Park: 2.2 mi
- Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 0.4 mi
- Amador County Museum: 0.9 mi
- Knight Foundry: 2.4 mi
- Monteverde Store Museum: 2.6 mi
- Amador Whitney Museum: 4.6 mi
- Flume Tressel Piers: 0.0 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 2: 0.1 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 1: 0.1 mi
- Massa Tunnel: 0.1 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 3: 0.1 mi
- Kennedy Gold Mine: 0.4 mi
- Sutter Gold Mine: 3.8 mi
- Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 4.7 mi
- The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 6.7 mi
- Black Chasm Cavern: 9.4 mi
- Spanish Spring: 9.1 mi
- Canzatti Spring: 14.5 mi
- Marble Springs: 16.6 mi
- Liddicoat Spring: 17.7 mi
- Sugar Spring: 20.9 mi
- Middle Bar: 4.8 mi
- Michigan Bar: 17.3 mi
- Logtown: 19.1 mi
- A Picnic Area: 17.4 mi
- B Picnic Area: 17.5 mi
- C Picnic Area: 17.5 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 13.4 mi
- Mokelumne Beach: 19.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devils Nose | ENE 70° | 1,445 m | 20.4 mi |
| Big Mountain | NE 45° | 1,395 m | 20.8 mi |
| Bald Mountain | ENE 78° | 1,247 m | 18.4 mi |
| Mount Crossman | ENE 62° | 1,184 m | 14.9 mi |
| Round Mountain | NE 35° | 1,063 m | 14.8 mi |
| Little Mountain | NE 39° | 1,029 m | 20.2 mi |
| Cement Hill | NNE 33° | 1,018 m | 16.2 mi |
| Fort Mountain | E 95° | 999 m | 16.5 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 | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:05 | 16:47 |
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, 2 mi away.
- Red-shouldered Hawk10 obs
- Pacific chorus frog9 obs
- Wild Turkey7 obs
- Western Honey Bee6 obs
- interior live oak6 obs
- Western Fence Lizard5 obs
- Canyon liveforever5 obs
- Colonus hesperus5 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/44368122
Day trips start here
- Placerville · 25 mi
- El Dorado Hills · 28 mi
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