Oroville Wildlife Area
Oroville Wildlife Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 35 m. Sunset Hill stands 1,006 m to the east-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Oroville Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 35 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Clay Pit State Vehicular Recreation Area: 1.5 mi
- Riverbend Park: 3.3 mi
- Riverbend Park: 4.0 mi
- Lake Oroville State Recreational Area: 4.0 mi
- Palermo Park: 4.2 mi
- Sugarloaf Peak: 4.9 mi
- Sycamore Hill: 7.2 mi
- South Table Mountain: 7.5 mi
- Sorensen Hill: 7.6 mi
- Monte de Oro: 8.0 mi
- Ranch Falls: 8.3 mi
- Crevice Twin Falls: 8.5 mi
- Crevice Falls: 8.5 mi
- Coon Falls: 8.6 mi
- Crevice Falls: 8.6 mi
- C F Lott Historic Home: 4.4 mi
- Oroville Chinese Temple: 4.7 mi
- Butte County Historical Society Museum: 5.1 mi
- Pioneer History Museum: 5.2 mi
- bath house museum: 5.4 mi
- Beatson Corral: 9.3 mi
- World Trade Center artifact: 13.1 mi
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF Kristina Chesterman 1992-2013: 21.1 mi
- Phagna Norapamok Memorial: 22.0 mi
- Chico Community Labyrinth: 22.3 mi
- Wildcat Sculpture: 22.2 mi
- Steel "Sculpture": 22.2 mi
- Downtown Kaleidoscope: 22.2 mi
- Three Sisters: 22.3 mi
- Monoliths: 22.3 mi
- Hamilton: 1.3 mi
- Chandon: 10.3 mi
- Bidwell's Bar: 11.5 mi
- Bloomer: 13.2 mi
- Brush: 19.8 mi
- Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 0.2 mi
- North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 9.4 mi
- Lower Yuba River: 24.3 mi
- Colusa Bypass Wildlife Area: 24.3 mi
- Black Swan Preserve: 25.0 mi
- Chico Seed Orchard: 19.3 mi
- Toride Japan Sister City Garden: 21.8 mi
- George Petersen Rose Garden: 22.3 mi
- Mary Lemcke Camellia Garden: 22.3 mi
- Rose Garden: 22.4 mi
- Clarenback Point: 14.0 mi
- Cape Horn: 17.6 mi
- Johnsons Bluff: 24.2 mi
- Hespol Memorial Spring: 17.0 mi
- Colyear Springs: 21.3 mi
- Hog Spring: 21.5 mi
- Collins Lake Group Picnic Area #1: 17.9 mi
- Five Mile: 22.9 mi
- Collins Lake Beach: 17.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.2 miles of Oroville Wildlife Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Hill | ENE 75° | 1,006 m | 17.4 mi |
| Big Bald Rock | NE 48° | 990 m | 19.3 mi |
| Weiss Hill | E 81° | 975 m | 16.6 mi |
| Kanaka Peak | ENE 63° | 920 m | 18.6 mi |
| Bloomer Hill | NNE 32° | 913 m | 15.6 mi |
| Ruff Hill | E 89° | 906 m | 19.1 mi |
| Island Bar Hill | ENE 61° | 837 m | 17.7 mi |
| Wild Yankee Hill | NE 37° | 811 m | 17.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:57 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:04 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 81 | 79 | 74 | 65 | 54 | 47 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 4.8 | 3.3 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.9 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oroville Muni AP, 2 mi away.
- Common Goldeneye12 obs
- Greater Scaup12 obs
- Pipevine Swallowtail12 obs
- Bufflehead11 obs
- Frémont's tidytips11 obs
- Scarlet Sesbane11 obs
- American Coot9 obs
- Savannah Sparrow9 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 node/358775964
Day trips start here
- Chico · 23 mi
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