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Las Animas Veterans Park

Las Animas Veterans Park from directly overhead

Las Animas Veterans Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 62 m. Loma Prieta stands 1,154 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Lakeside Picnic Area, a picnic site 0.1 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
62 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
City of Gilroy

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.02204, -121.58286
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Picnic sites
  • Lakeside Picnic Area: 0.1 mi
  • Milias Group Picnic Area: 1.9 mi
  • Park Maintenance: 4.9 mi
  • Sandy Beach Picnic Area: 5.3 mi
  • San Ysidro Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
Parks
  • Kern Avenue Dog Park: 0.5 mi
  • Renz Park: 0.5 mi
  • Rainbow Park: 0.6 mi
  • Miller Park: 0.7 mi
  • Los Arroyos Park: 0.8 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
  • Mendoza Ranch Entrance: 4.8 mi
  • Harvey Bear Ranch Entrance: 5.2 mi
  • Coyote Lake Entrance: 5.2 mi
  • Pajaro River Ag Preserve (South): 5.5 mi
  • Lake Silveira Wetlands: 5.5 mi
Attractions: 58
  • Banana Split: 2.7 mi
  • Strawberry Sundae: 2.7 mi
  • Tubs-O-Fun: 2.7 mi
  • Bulgy the Goldfish: 2.7 mi
  • Illions Supreme Carousel: 2.7 mi
Historic sites: 53
Artworks: 50
  • Mural Gilroy the City of Garlic: 1.2 mi
  • Fat Bhuda: 9.3 mi
  • Bhuda: 9.4 mi
  • If it has no other explanation, it must be art: 16.3 mi
  • Compass: 16.6 mi
Springs: 36
  • El Pajaro Springs: 7.8 mi
  • Spike Jones Spring: 8.9 mi
  • Mistletoe Spring: 9.9 mi
  • Willson Camp Quartz Spring: 10.0 mi
  • Willson Camp Hillside Spring: 10.1 mi
Museums: 29
Gardens: 25
  • Claudia's Garden: 2.8 mi
  • South County Backroads Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Rainbow Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Holly Garden: 2.9 mi
  • Camellia Garden: 2.9 mi
Beaches: 23
Waterfalls: 14
  • Bonfante Falls: 2.9 mi
  • Triple Falls: 12.3 mi
  • Lower Falls: 12.4 mi
  • Granuja Falls: 12.5 mi
  • Black Rock Falls: 12.7 mi
Ghost towns: 8
Cliffs: 3
Lighthouses: 1
  • Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 23.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Las Animas Veterans Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Loma PrietaWNW 293°1,154 m15.7 mi
Crystal PeakWNW 294°1,097 m15.3 mi
Mount ChualWNW 296°1,046 m15.4 mi
Bollinger MountainN 7°1,044 m16.1 mi
Mount SizerNNE 16°998 m13.8 mi
Middle RidgeN 10°884 m13.0 mi
Nesbit RidgeNNE 19°850.7 m8.4 mi
Pacheco PeakE 93°844 m16.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1118:4419:18
June solstice05:4819:5120:30
September equinox06:5518:3119:05
December solstice07:1716:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495255586367717169635549
Precip in4.54.32.61.30.60.10.00.00.00.91.73.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gilroy, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • California Scrub-Jay17 obs
  • House Finch15 obs
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove14 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird14 obs
  • Turkey Vulture13 obs
  • House Sparrow13 obs
  • California poppy13 obs
  • California Condor12 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/27284880

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