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Ponderosa Park

Ponderosa Park from directly overhead

Ponderosa Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 29 m. Mount Thayer stands 1,061 m to the south-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Carl Eklund Memorial Park, a park 0.5 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
29 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.36249, -122.00670
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Carl Eklund Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
  • Corn Palace Park: 0.5 mi
  • Lavender Community Park: 0.6 mi
  • Braly Park: 0.7 mi
  • Machado Park: 1.0 mi
Picnic sites
  • Braly Picnic #3: 0.7 mi
  • Braly Picnic #2: 0.8 mi
  • Braly Picnic #1: 0.8 mi
  • Central Park Pavillion: 2.3 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 2.9 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Artworks
Museums
Attractions
Gardens
Peaks
  • Anza Knoll: 4.3 mi
  • Hunters Point: 5.6 mi
  • Maisie's Peak: 6.3 mi
  • Nob Hill: 6.5 mi
  • Ewing Hill: 7.8 mi
Beaches: 29
Waterfalls: 26
Springs: 18
  • Congress Springs: 8.5 mi
  • Spring source: 9.2 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 11.2 mi
  • McClure Spring: 12.2 mi
  • Cherry Springs: 13.1 mi
Ghost towns: 14
Cliffs: 8
  • Graffiti Rock: 7.0 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 10.5 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 10.7 mi
  • The Bluff: 16.7 mi
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 23.2 mi
Covered bridges: 2
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.0 miles of Ponderosa Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount ThayerSSE 161°1,061 m14.5 mi
Mount BielawskiSSW 206°985 m10.7 mi
Castle RockSSW 208°979 m10.5 mi
The PeakSSW 200°917 m10.5 mi
El SombrosoSSE 157°917 m13.8 mi
Lookout TowerSW 215°892 m9.8 mi
Goat RockSSW 211°890 m10.8 mi
Sunnyvale MountainSSW 198°880 m10.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4619:20
June solstice05:4819:5420:33
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:1916:1416:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515356586266686868645651
Precip in2.52.92.01.00.40.10.00.00.10.61.42.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moffett FED Airfield, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch143 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel107 obs
  • Mitred Parakeet104 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard101 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird100 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco93 obs
  • Mallard89 obs
  • Western Honey Bee84 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/18402078

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