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Oak Knoll Recreation Area

Oak Knoll Recreation Area from directly overhead

Oak Knoll Recreation Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 228 m. Mount Zion stands 899 m to the north-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Acorn Recreation Area, a park 0.4 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
228 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.18214, -120.79216

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums: 13
Historic sites: 12
  • Tailing Wheel No. 3: 12.5 mi
  • Flume Tressel Piers: 12.6 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 2: 12.6 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 1: 12.6 mi
  • Massa Tunnel: 12.6 mi
Attractions: 10
Springs: 9
  • Gooseberry Spring: 13.1 mi
  • Hicks Spring: 15.2 mi
  • Turners Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Spanish Spring: 17.7 mi
  • Churchs Spring: 20.1 mi
Picnic sites: 5
  • A Picnic Area: 19.5 mi
  • C Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
  • B Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
  • Heron Point Day Use: 20.2 mi
  • Lupine Day Use Area: 20.6 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Beaches: 2
Cliffs: 2
Gardens: 1
  • F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 6.8 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridge: 19.3 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • National Recreation Area: 20.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.6 miles of Oak Knoll Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount ZionNNE 28°899 m16.2 mi
Bear MountainSE 135°879 m16.0 mi
Joaquin PeakESE 117°854 m6.2 mi
Quiggs MountainENE 71°843 m10.2 mi
Soapstone HillE 101°799 m16.0 mi
Carmen PeakSE 141°786 m11.3 mi
High MountainE 93°748 m15.3 mi
Clinton PeakNNE 25°733 m15.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4119:15
June solstice05:4119:5120:30
September equinox06:5218:2719:02
December solstice07:1716:0616:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485155596673797875665548
Precip in4.03.83.62.11.30.30.00.00.21.12.24.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Camp Pardee, 5 mi away.

  • Mule Deer12 obs
  • Canada Goose11 obs
  • blue oak10 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard9 obs
  • Turkey Vulture8 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog8 obs
  • Western Bluebird7 obs
  • Acorn Woodpecker7 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/358832941

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