Potomac County Park
Potomac County Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 125 m. Breckenridge Mountain stands 2,298 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Virginia Avenue Park, a park 0.9 miles away. 23 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 125 m
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Virginia Avenue Park: 0.9 mi
- Pioneer Park: 1.5 mi
- Heritage Park: 1.9 mi
- Mayflower Park: 2.1 mi
- Martin Luther King Park: 2.1 mi
- Rock Spring: 12.7 mi
- Dripping Spring: 12.8 mi
- Tunnel Spring: 15.1 mi
- Haypress Spring: 15.4 mi
- Rattlesnake Spring: 15.5 mi
- Ant Hill: 5.8 mi
- Round Mountain: 9.2 mi
- Brushy Hill: 10.1 mi
- Mount Adelaide: 12.7 mi
- Rock Pile: 13.1 mi
- Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village: 4.1 mi
- Kern County Museum Historical Reference Library: 4.1 mi
- California Living Museum: 6.1 mi
- Minter Field Air Museum: 16.0 mi
- The Green Hotel: 20.4 mi
- PICNIC TABLE: 5.0 mi
- PICNIC TABLE: 5.1 mi
- PICNIC TABLE: 6.7 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 14.8 mi
- Lower Richbar Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- Kern Veterans Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Site of the Flight of the Gossamer Condor: 15.9 mi
- Veterans Park Memorial Site: 20.8 mi
- Bear Vally Veteran's Memorial: 22.4 mi
- Martyr's Rock: 24.0 mi
- Rattlesnake Canyon: 5.1 mi
- Lake Ming County Park: 6.8 mi
- CSLC Open Space: 15.5 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve State Park: 23.2 mi
- Bakersfield Jam: 6.6 mi
- Bakersfield Speedway: 7.3 mi
- checkpoint: 16.7 mi
- woody rd: 24.0 mi
- Father Francisco Garces: 3.9 mi
- North Beardsley Skatepark: 6.0 mi
- Mon Bluff: 11.1 mi
- Chalk Cliff: 16.0 mi
- Sister City Gardens: 3.1 mi
- Rio Bravo: 7.4 mi
- 4 Island Lake Beach: 21.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Potomac County Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breckenridge Mountain | ENE 74° | 2,298 m | 21.7 mi |
| Bear Mountain | ESE 121° | 2,106 m | 21.0 mi |
| Lightner Peak | ENE 62° | 1,943 m | 24.9 mi |
| Hole in the Mountain | ENE 76° | 1,743 m | 20.7 mi |
| Ball Mountain | NE 46° | 1,404 m | 19.3 mi |
| Windmill Tree Peak | NE 36° | 1,393 m | 24.4 mi |
| Oiler Peak | E 92° | 1,315 m | 20.7 mi |
| Saturday Peak | NE 53° | 1,260 m | 16.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:37 | 20:15 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:21 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:02 | 16:08 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 52 | 57 | 62 | 70 | 77 | 84 | 82 | 77 | 67 | 56 | 48 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bakersfield 5 NW, 7 mi away.
- Yellow-rumped Warbler7 obs
- Black-necked Stilt5 obs
- Northern Mockingbird5 obs
- Cinnamon Teal5 obs
- Eurasian Collared-Dove4 obs
- Turkey Vulture4 obs
- Mallard4 obs
- Western Toad4 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 way/60113932
Day trips start here
- Bakersfield · 4 mi
- Kern County · 5 mi
- Buttonwillow · 28 mi
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