Sandy Gulch State Historic Landmark
Sandy Gulch State Historic Landmark is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 790 m. Shovel Grave stands 2,036 m to the east-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Sandy Gulch Field Baseball Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 790 m
How to reach it
- 13.0 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Liberty Vista Point · 22 mi
- Hell's Kitchen Vista Point · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sandy Gulch Field Baseball Park: 0.1 mi
- West Point State Historic Landmark: 1.4 mi
- Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park: 6.6 mi
- Soldiers Memorial Park: 6.9 mi
- Tabeaud Trail Trashcan: 7.0 mi
- Fort Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Bald Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Mount Crossman: 5.9 mi
- Mount Zion: 6.5 mi
- Clinton Peak: 7.7 mi
- Canzatti Spring: 4.3 mi
- Sugar Spring: 8.6 mi
- Liddicoat Spring: 10.9 mi
- Marble Springs: 11.8 mi
- San Antonio Spring: 13.3 mi
- Amador County Model Railroad Museum: 6.5 mi
- Chaw'se Regional Indian Museum: 6.6 mi
- Sierra Nevada Logging Museum: 12.9 mi
- Amador County Museum: 13.2 mi
- Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 13.4 mi
- Black Chasm Cavern: 6.2 mi
- California Caverns: 12.4 mi
- Kennedy Gold Mine: 13.5 mi
- Campfire Center: 14.1 mi
- Big Stump: 14.2 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 3: 13.1 mi
- Flume Tressel Piers: 13.2 mi
- Massa Tunnel: 13.3 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 2: 13.3 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 1: 13.3 mi
- Middle Bar: 13.1 mi
- Carson Hill: 24.4 mi
- Logtown: 24.6 mi
- McKays Point: 15.9 mi
- Calaveras Dome: 18.1 mi
- Oak Leaf: 16.3 mi
- Shot Rock Vista Picnic Area: 24.8 mi
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park: 16.5 mi
- Calaveras South Grove Natural Preserve: 18.2 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 15.0 mi
- Natural Bridge: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.8 miles of Sandy Gulch State Historic Landmark. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shovel Grave | ENE 68° | 2,036 m | 19.4 mi |
| Blue Mountain | ESE 106° | 1,835 m | 9.4 mi |
| Armstrong Hill | NE 36° | 1,735 m | 13.8 mi |
| Repeater Hill | ESE 117° | 1,672 m | 19.1 mi |
| Buck Mountain | E 92° | 1,566 m | 8.7 mi |
| Devils Nose | NE 47° | 1,445 m | 8.3 mi |
| Big Mountain | N 6° | 1,395 m | 13.6 mi |
| Lincoln Hill | N 5° | 1,379 m | 19.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:04 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 38 | 40 | 45 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 67 | 62 | 53 | 43 | 37 |
| Precip in | 10.6 | 9.8 | 8.5 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 5.2 | 9.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Calaveras BIG Trees, 14 mi away.
- Pacific madrone7 obs
- Mountain Misery6 obs
- California black oak5 obs
- eggleaf spurge5 obs
- Turkey Vulture3 obs
- California incense-cedar3 obs
- Wild Turkey2 obs
- Douglas-fir2 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/358832914
Day trips start here
- Placerville · 28 mi
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