Park · California
Merced Heights Playground
Merced Heights Playground is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 86 m. Scarper Peak stands 593 m to the south, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Brooks Park, a park 0.2 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 86 m
How to reach it
Coordinates37.71745, -122.47035
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Brooks Park: 0.2 mi
- Randolph & Bright Mini Park: 0.4 mi
- Robert Pender Park: 0.4 mi
- Lakeview and Ashton Mini Park: 0.4 mi
- Junipero Serra Playground: 0.5 mi
Gardens
- Brooks Park Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- HSS Courtyard: 0.5 mi
- Landscape Learning Library: 0.5 mi
- Stormwater / Roofwater Management Bioswales: 0.5 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 0.6 mi
Artworks
- Art Panels: 0.3 mi
- Beniamino Bufano "Peace" Statue: 0.4 mi
- Head of St. Francis: 0.5 mi
- Tiger sculpture: 0.5 mi
- Hall of fame photo collage: 0.6 mi
Historic sites
- Meryl Bennington Rose Garden: 0.5 mi
- “Connect the Dots”: 40th anniversary, 1968 student-strike: 0.5 mi
- Civil Rights Memorial 1954-1968: 0.5 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 0.6 mi
- Broderick-Terry Duel Site: 0.9 mi
Museums
- Daly City History Museum: 1.0 mi
- Colma Historical Museum: 2.5 mi
- GLBT History Museum: 3.5 mi
- California Academy of Sciences: 3.6 mi
- Randall Museum: 3.7 mi
Attractions
- Gregangelo Museum: 1.1 mi
- Fake Seagull: 1.5 mi
- Grizzly Gulch: 1.9 mi
- Eagle Island: 1.9 mi
- Chacoan Peccary: 1.9 mi
Peaks
- City College Hill: 1.2 mi
- Mount Davidson: 1.7 mi
- Edgehill Heights: 1.9 mi
- Forest Hill: 2.1 mi
- Larsen Peak: 2.2 mi
Picnic sites
- West Portal Playground Picnic Area: 1.7 mi
- Udo & Jürgen's place: 3.7 mi
- Picnic Area: 4.9 mi
- Picnic Pod A: 6.0 mi
- Greg & Bev James Picnic Area: 6.5 mi
Nature reserves
- Fort Funston: 1.8 mi
- San Francisco State Fish and Game Refuge: 7.5 mi
- Pedro Point Headlands: 9.4 mi
- Cypress Ridge Open Space: 10.0 mi
- Crab Cove Marine Reserve: 11.0 mi
Beaches: 59
- Phillip Burton Memorial Beach: 1.9 mi
- Mile Rock Beach: 5.2 mi
- Crane Cove Beach: 5.6 mi
- Marshall's Beach: 5.8 mi
- East Beach: 6.2 mi
Waterfalls: 15
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 3.0 mi
- Huntington Falls: 3.6 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 3.8 mi
- Kent Falls: 13.0 mi
- Dawn Falls: 16.1 mi
Springs: 13
- El Polín Spring: 5.2 mi
- El Polín Spring: 5.3 mi
- El Polín Spring: 5.4 mi
- Old Spring: 9.9 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 14.4 mi
Cliffs: 7
- Aramai Point: 7.8 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 8.2 mi
- Vent 5: 13.7 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 14.7 mi
- Chab: 18.7 mi
Ghost towns: 5
- Lynn: 14.2 mi
- Winehaven: 16.4 mi
- Russell City: 18.9 mi
- Stokes Landing: 19.6 mi
- Purissima: 21.9 mi
Lighthouses: 3
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 7.5 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 8.6 mi
- Quarters A: 8.6 mi
Natural arches: 1
- Bird Island Arch: 8.2 mi
Rest areas: 1
Hot springs: 1
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 14.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Merced Heights Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scarper Peak | S 170° | 592.5 m | 13.2 mi |
| Montara Mountain North Peak | S 182° | 570 m | 10.8 mi |
| Peak Mountain | S 184° | 545 m | 10.8 mi |
| South Peak | S 183° | 545 m | 11.2 mi |
| Montara Knob | S 184° | 487 m | 11.1 mi |
| San Bruno Mountain Summit | SE 137° | 371 m | 2.8 mi |
| Richardson East | N 350° | 338.6 m | 9.3 mi |
| San Pedro Mountain | SSW 191° | 325 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:57 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
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 | 52 | 54 | 54 | 55 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Francisco Oceanside, 2 mi away.
- White-crowned Sparrow475 obs
- Bermuda buttercup426 obs
- Great-tailed Grackle419 obs
- California poppy413 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk341 obs
- Lawn daisy334 obs
- coyote brush320 obs
- Mallard307 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/162651463
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