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Lake Kaweah Recreation Area

Lake Kaweah Recreation Area from directly overhead

Lake Kaweah Recreation Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 212 m. Cahoon Rock stands 2,798 m to the east, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Kaweah Recreation Area, a park 1.0 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
212 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.40439, -118.97427

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Springs: 32
Attractions: 28
Waterfalls: 10
Historic sites: 7
Picnic sites: 7
  • Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 13.8 mi
  • Pinewood Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
  • Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 18.0 mi
  • Old Mountain Home Picnic Area: 19.4 mi
  • Sunset Point Picnic Area: 19.5 mi
Museums: 6
Nature reserves: 3
  • Dry Creek Preserve: 3.4 mi
  • Homer Ranch Preserve: 5.3 mi
  • McCarthy Blue Oak Ranch Preserve: 16.5 mi
Gardens: 2
Artworks: 2
  • World's Largest Olive: 15.6 mi
  • End of Trail Statue: 20.7 mi
Cliffs: 1
  • Valhalla: 24.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.9 miles of Lake Kaweah Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cahoon RockE 96°2,798 m15.9 mi
Homer's NoseE 96°2,734 m13.2 mi
Dennison MountainESE 115°2,645 m14.0 mi
Pine Top MountainENE 74°2,418 m15.0 mi
Dennison PeakESE 122°2,226 m14.0 mi
Case MountainE 87°2,073 m9.5 mi
Moro RockNE 50°2,050 m15.1 mi
Bear HillNE 46°2,045 m15.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3419:08
June solstice05:3919:4020:18
September equinox06:4518:2018:54
December solstice07:0516:0516:45

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495358627077838176675648
Precip in2.72.32.51.40.60.10.00.00.10.71.32.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lemon Cove, 3 mi away.

  • Great Blue Heron8 obs
  • caterpillar scorpionweed8 obs
  • buttonbush8 obs
  • Sacred Datura8 obs
  • Mallard7 obs
  • Brewer's Blackbird7 obs
  • blue oak7 obs
  • Canyon liveforever7 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/358839646

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