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Pine Grove Park

Pine Grove Park from directly overhead

Pine Grove Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 767 m. Blue Mountain stands 1,835 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Amador County Model Railroad Museum, a museum 0.7 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
767 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.41302, -120.65840

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Museums: 19
Springs: 14
  • Canzatti Spring: 7.3 mi
  • Marble Springs: 10.2 mi
  • Liddicoat Spring: 10.9 mi
  • Sugar Spring: 13.9 mi
  • Spanish Spring: 14.8 mi
Historic sites: 13
  • Tailing Wheel No. 3: 7.2 mi
  • Massa Tunnel: 7.2 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 2: 7.2 mi
  • Flume Tressel Piers: 7.2 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 1: 7.2 mi
Attractions: 12
  • Black Chasm Cavern: 2.2 mi
  • Kennedy Gold Mine: 7.3 mi
  • Sutter Gold Mine: 8.3 mi
  • Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 9.1 mi
  • The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 10.6 mi
Picnic sites: 4
  • Oak Leaf: 23.4 mi
  • A Picnic Area: 24.2 mi
  • B Picnic Area: 24.3 mi
  • C Picnic Area: 24.4 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Gardens: 2
  • F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 15.4 mi
  • Sherwood Demonstration Garden: 24.4 mi
Cliffs: 2
Nature reserves: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.2 miles of Pine Grove Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue MountainESE 107°1,835 m16.6 mi
Armstrong HillENE 59°1,735 m17.3 mi
Buck MountainE 100°1,566 m15.7 mi
Devils NoseENE 75°1,445 m13.3 mi
Big MountainNE 36°1,395 m14.0 mi
Manuel PeakSE 128°1,354 m18.7 mi
Big ButteNNE 16°1,306 m19.0 mi
Middle ButteNNE 17°1,260 m18.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4019:15
June solstice05:4019:5120:31
September equinox06:5118:2619:01
December solstice07:1716:0416:46

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F475052566371787773655447
Precip in6.15.74.92.81.70.40.00.00.21.73.15.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutter Hill CDF, 8 mi away.

  • Pacific madrone56 obs
  • Mountain Misery49 obs
  • Yellow Star-tulip47 obs
  • California incense-cedar43 obs
  • showy milkweed42 obs
  • canyon live oak26 obs
  • valley oak23 obs
  • Toyon23 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 way/824652707

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