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Park De La Cruz

Park De La Cruz from directly overhead

Park De La Cruz is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 84 m. Lyons Peak stands 1,139 m to the east, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Central Avenue Mini-Park, a park 0.1 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
84 m
Getting there

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Coordinates32.74517, -117.11086
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Central Avenue Mini-Park: 0.1 mi
  • Teralta Neighborhood Park: 0.5 mi
  • Manzanita Gathering Place: 0.6 mi
  • City Heights Square Mini Park: 0.6 mi
  • Wabash Park: 0.6 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
Museums
Artworks
Peaks
  • Marston Point: 3.0 mi
  • Cowles Mountain: 6.5 mi
  • Pyles Peak: 6.8 mi
  • Kwaay Paay Peak: 6.8 mi
  • Dictionary Hill: 7.0 mi
Gardens: 59
Cliffs: 27
  • Middle Earth: 6.5 mi
  • Middle Earth: 6.5 mi
  • Middle Earth: 6.5 mi
  • Limbo - Deviation: 6.5 mi
  • Limbo: 6.6 mi
Nature reserves: 24
Beaches: 24
Springs: 13
  • Dog Spring: 6.5 mi
  • Sweetwater Spring: 8.2 mi
  • La Honda Spring: 13.2 mi
  • Hubbard Spring: 18.9 mi
  • Rock Haven Spring: 19.2 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Africa Rocks Waterfall: 2.5 mi
  • Lower Adobe Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Adobe Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 13.1 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Tree Lake Picnic Area No. 3: 23.0 mi
  • Ray Love Picnic Area: 23.0 mi
  • Ridgetop Picnic Site: 23.1 mi
  • El Arroyo Picnic Area: 23.3 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.1 miles of Park De La Cruz. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lyons PeakE 98°1,139 m20.4 mi
El Cajon MountainNE 55°1,112 m20.6 mi
Otay MountainSE 124°1,067 m18.7 mi
El CapitanNE 54°1,026 m20.2 mi
Rock MountainNE 53°996 m21.7 mi
Silverdome IINE 52°970.36 m19.5 mi
Woodson MountainNNE 24°878 m19.9 mi
Sycuan PeakE 88°840 m17.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2819:00
June solstice05:4219:2420:00
September equinox06:3718:1418:47
December solstice06:4816:0916:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F585961636567717272686358
Precip in2.02.21.50.60.30.00.10.00.10.50.81.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Diego Intl AP, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard595 obs
  • Monarch432 obs
  • Thick-leaved Yerba Santa362 obs
  • House Finch360 obs
  • California Buckwheat330 obs
  • lemonade berry326 obs
  • laurel sumac309 obs
  • Western Honey Bee290 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/86811572

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