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Martin Luther King Junior Park

Martin Luther King Junior Park from directly overhead

Martin Luther King Junior Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 44 m. Mount Markham stands 1,746 m to the northeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Rolland Curtis Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 4.8 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
44 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates34.01349, -118.30797

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Rolland Curtis Park: 0.5 mi
  • Jesse A. Brewer Jr. Park: 1.0 mi
  • W. M. Keck Foundation Amphitheatre: 1.1 mi
  • Leslie N Shaw Park: 1.1 mi
  • Vermont Square Park: 1.1 mi
Artworks
Museums
Attractions
Historic sites
Gardens
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Baldwin Hills: 4.2 mi
  • Maltman peak: 5.4 mi
  • Silverlake peak: 5.9 mi
  • Micheltorena peak: 6.0 mi
  • Olive Hill: 6.0 mi
Picnic sites: 39
  • Burke-Roche Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
  • Picnic Central: 3.5 mi
  • Garden Grove: 3.5 mi
  • Blue Lagoon: 3.6 mi
  • Lake Side: 3.6 mi
Waterfalls: 21
  • Temescal Falls: 13.6 mi
  • Santa Ynez Falls: 15.9 mi
  • Mayberg Waterfall: 16.8 mi
  • Millard Falls: 17.1 mi
  • Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 17.1 mi
Beaches: 18
Springs: 10
  • Kuruvungna Springs: 8.9 mi
  • Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 14.9 mi
  • Eagle Spring: 16.2 mi
  • Goldenrod Spring: 19.1 mi
  • Fascination Spring: 19.3 mi
Cliffs: 6
Hot springs: 1
  • Spa Palace: 3.7 mi
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.5 miles of Martin Luther King Junior Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount MarkhamNE 38°1,746 m19.5 mi
Mount LoweNE 37°1,699 m19.0 mi
Mount LukensNNE 13°1,546.6 m18.1 mi
Mount YaleNE 47°1,451 m19.2 mi
Muir PeakNE 40°1,427 m18.3 mi
Brown MountainNNE 31°1,363 m18.0 mi
Hoyt MountainNNE 23°1,346 m19.2 mi
West FujiNE 40°1,121.969 m17.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3219:05
June solstice05:4319:3120:08
September equinox06:4218:1818:51
December solstice06:5616:1016:49

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F585961646669737574696358
Precip in3.33.62.20.70.30.10.00.00.10.60.82.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Angeles Downtown/usc, 1 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel1,125 obs
  • Western Honey Bee915 obs
  • Monarch582 obs
  • House Sparrow441 obs
  • Fiery Skipper403 obs
  • Allen's Hummingbird337 obs
  • Gray Bird Grasshopper322 obs
  • Common Pill Woodlouse314 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/542997908

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