Lakeview Recreation Area
Lakeview Recreation Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 39 m. Mount Wilson stands 1,737 m to the north, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Soaring Dreams Plaza, a park 0.4 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 12 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 39 m
How to reach it
- 12.2 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Soaring Dreams Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Lake Center Athletic Park: 0.4 mi
- Friendship Park: 0.5 mi
- Santa Fe Springs Playground: 0.5 mi
- Santa Fe Springs Park: 0.5 mi
- Hathaway Ranch Museum: 0.7 mi
- McDonald's Museum: 1.8 mi
- Sproul Museum: 2.6 mi
- Downey Art Museum: 2.9 mi
- Columbia Memorial Space Center: 3.1 mi
- Founders Plaza: 0.7 mi
- McDonald's Sign: 1.7 mi
- A City Evolves: 1.9 mi
- Spring Star: 2.8 mi
- Fertile Minds aka "Books Bunny": 2.9 mi
- Freedom Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 2.4 mi
- Norwalk Square: 2.8 mi
- Hispanic American Veterans Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Valley View Farms Business Center Plaque: 4.3 mi
- Apollo Boilerplate 12: 3.1 mi
- Little India: 5.6 mi
- Citadel Outlets: 5.8 mi
- M3 Lee: 7.5 mi
- M3 Lee: 7.5 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 5.2 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Bosque del Rio Hondo Natural Area: 6.0 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 6.5 mi
- Upper Campus Community Garden: 4.8 mi
- Paramount Cortland Community Garden: 5.4 mi
- Cerritos Sculpture Garden: 5.5 mi
- Pinewood Urn Garden: 5.6 mi
- GrowGood Urban Farm: 5.6 mi
- Whittier Hill: 5.9 mi
- Workman Hill: 5.9 mi
- Montebello Hills: 6.0 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 7.0 mi
- West Coyote Hills: 8.4 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 6.6 mi
- Hidden Valley: 9.5 mi
- Creekside: 9.6 mi
- Covered Picnic Area: 11.5 mi
- Mother's Beach: 13.0 mi
- Schweitzer Falls: 13.3 mi
- Frog Jump Falls: 13.4 mi
- Washout Falls: 13.4 mi
- Bear Claw Fall: 13.5 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 13.7 mi
- Mother's Beach: 12.9 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 13.3 mi
- Bolsa Chica State Beach: 17.3 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 19.1 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 19.5 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 17.7 mi
- McDermont Spring: 20.0 mi
- Big Cienega Spring: 21.6 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 22.4 mi
- Fern Springs: 23.2 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 21.0 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 22.1 mi
- Spa Palace: 13.0 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 20.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.8 miles of Lakeview Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Wilson | N 4° | 1,737 m | 19.4 mi |
| Monrovia Peak | NNE 20° | 1,649 m | 19.8 mi |
| Mount Harvard | N 4° | 1,640 m | 18.7 mi |
| Rankin Peak | NNE 19° | 1,606 m | 19.4 mi |
| Mount Yale | N 4° | 1,451 m | 18.1 mi |
| Muir Peak | N 357° | 1,427 m | 18.8 mi |
| Clamshell Peak | NNE 16° | 1,338 m | 18.6 mi |
| West Fuji | N 357° | 1,121.969 m | 18.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:30 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 58 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 67 | 71 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fullerton Muni AP, 8 mi away.
- Mallard125 obs
- Western Fence Lizard124 obs
- Western Honey Bee61 obs
- Monarch59 obs
- Canada Goose53 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel50 obs
- Muscovy Duck48 obs
- Pond Slider48 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/487043440
Day trips start here
- Santa Fe Springs · 0 mi
- Downey · 3 mi
- Gateway Cities · 3 mi
- Norwalk · 3 mi
- Pico Rivera · 3 mi
- Whittier · 4 mi
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