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Mount Tamalpais Game Refuge

Mount Tamalpais Game Refuge from directly overhead

Mount Tamalpais Game Refuge is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 611 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the east, 1.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Rifle Camp, a picnic site 0.3 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
611 m

How to reach it

Coordinates37.92965, -122.60192

Named places within 25 miles

Picnic sites
  • Rifle Camp: 0.3 mi
  • Potrero Camp: 0.7 mi
  • Barth's Retreat: 0.9 mi
  • Bolinas Park: 3.9 mi
  • Hunt Camp: 6.4 mi
Peaks
Historic sites
Parks
Attractions
  • Founders Grove: 2.9 mi
  • Redwood Tree Slice: 2.9 mi
  • Stinson tree: 3.2 mi
  • Marin Art & Garden Center, Ross: 3.4 mi
  • Slide House: 4.7 mi
Gardens
Beaches: 57
Waterfalls: 16
  • Laurel Dell Falls: 1.5 mi
  • Midway Falls: 1.7 mi
  • Helen Markt Falls: 1.8 mi
  • Cataract Falls: 1.8 mi
  • Dawn Falls: 2.3 mi
Springs: 11
Cliffs: 5
Ghost towns: 4
Natural arches: 3
  • Bird Island Arch: 8.1 mi
  • Temple: 11.5 mi
  • Keyhole: 12.0 mi
Hot springs: 1
  • Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 3.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.8 miles of Mount Tamalpais Game Refuge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount Tamalpais East PeakE 92°784 m1.3 mi
Mount Tamalpais West PeakSE 145°778 m0.5 mi
Mount Tamalpais Middle PeakESE 104°744 m0.7 mi
Ballou PointSW 225°612 m1.7 mi
Twin KnollsWSW 249°597 m1.7 mi
Big Rock RidgeN 359°575 m9.0 mi
Pine MountainNW 320°543 m4.3 mi
Mount Tamalpais West PointSSE 154°527 m1.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4819:23
June solstice05:4919:5820:37
September equinox06:5918:3419:09
December solstice07:2316:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495255586266686867635549
Precip in8.88.76.02.61.40.40.00.00.12.04.69.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kentfield, 4 mi away.

  • Fairy-slipper1,089 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard674 obs
  • Douglas iris650 obs
  • Warrior's Plume646 obs
  • Pacific hound's tongue626 obs
  • Red larkspur587 obs
  • California yerba santa563 obs
  • milkmaids553 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/358771283

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