North Park
North Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 156 m. Hole in the Mountain stands 1,743 m to the east, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is MC Cray Park, a park 0.4 miles away. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 156 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- MC Cray Park: 0.4 mi
- Sears Park: 0.5 mi
- North Meadows Park: 0.6 mi
- Standard Park: 1.0 mi
- North Beardley Park: 1.1 mi
- Rock Spring: 16.2 mi
- Dripping Spring: 16.8 mi
- Tunnel Spring: 17.9 mi
- Saturday Spring: 18.6 mi
- Dead Ox Spring: 19.0 mi
- Brushy Hill: 5.6 mi
- Ant Hill: 8.0 mi
- Round Mountain: 8.8 mi
- Knob Hill: 10.5 mi
- Mount Poso: 11.5 mi
- Kern County Museum Historical Reference Library: 2.5 mi
- Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village: 2.5 mi
- California Living Museum: 8.1 mi
- Minter Field Air Museum: 10.1 mi
- The Green Hotel: 14.8 mi
- PICNIC TABLE: 8.3 mi
- PICNIC TABLE: 8.4 mi
- PICNIC TABLE: 8.7 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 17.1 mi
- Lower Richbar Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
- Bakersfield Jam: 1.3 mi
- Bakersfield Speedway: 1.6 mi
- checkpoint: 13.1 mi
- woody rd: 21.5 mi
- Kern Veterans Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Site of the Flight of the Gossamer Condor: 9.9 mi
- Veterans Park Memorial Site: 15.2 mi
- McFarland Veterans Memorial: 20.4 mi
- Rattlesnake Canyon: 7.2 mi
- Lake Ming County Park: 8.9 mi
- CSLC Open Space: 11.0 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve State Park: 20.3 mi
- North Beardsley Skatepark: 1.0 mi
- Father Francisco Garces: 2.9 mi
- Mon Bluff: 7.8 mi
- Chalk Cliff: 13.8 mi
- Buttonwillow Rest Area: 22.2 mi
- Buttonwillow Rest Area: 22.2 mi
- Sister City Gardens: 3.8 mi
- Rio Bravo: 9.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of North Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hole in the Mountain | E 89° | 1,743 m | 24.3 mi |
| Ball Mountain | ENE 63° | 1,404 m | 20.2 mi |
| Windmill Tree Peak | NE 50° | 1,393 m | 24.1 mi |
| Saturday Peak | ENE 72° | 1,260 m | 18.1 mi |
| Burke Hill | NE 55° | 1,206 m | 22.7 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ENE 57° | 1,184 m | 17.3 mi |
| Mount Pheasant | NE 43° | 1,103 m | 20.1 mi |
| Mount Adelaide | E 89° | 1,041 m | 16.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:35 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:38 | 20:15 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:21 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:02 | 16:09 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 52 | 57 | 62 | 70 | 77 | 84 | 82 | 77 | 67 | 56 | 48 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bakersfield 5 NW, 1 mi away.
- California Scrub-Jay14 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk9 obs
- Mediterranean House Gecko7 obs
- White-crowned Sparrow6 obs
- Great Egret6 obs
- Mourning Dove5 obs
- American Kestrel5 obs
- Northern Mockingbird5 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/60113824
Day trips start here
- Bakersfield · 5 mi
- Kern County · 11 mi
- Buttonwillow · 23 mi
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