Santa Rita Park
Santa Rita Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 25 m. Palo Escrito Peak stands 1,352 m to the south-southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is McKinnon Park, a park 1.0 miles away. Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 passes 15 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 25 m
How to reach it
- 15.0 mi off the Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1, National
Overlooks nearby
- 1 Shepherd's Knoll · 18 mi
- Rumsien Overlook · 20 mi
- China Lookout · 24 mi
- Granite Canyon Bridge · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- McKinnon Park: 1.0 mi
- Rogge Commons Park: 1.1 mi
- Rogge Commons Park 2: 1.1 mi
- Northgate Park: 1.2 mi
- El Dorado Community Park: 1.3 mi
- Schneider Hill: 2.4 mi
- Sugarloaf Peak: 4.3 mi
- Mulligan Hill: 8.4 mi
- Fremont Peak: 8.5 mi
- Elliott Hill: 8.7 mi
- Giant artichoke: 6.2 mi
- Sea otters: 8.9 mi
- Tiger (Female): 9.2 mi
- Tiger (Male): 9.2 mi
- Savanna: 9.3 mi
- Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve: 8.1 mi
- Salinas River National Wildlife Refuge: 8.2 mi
- Salinas River Mouth Natural Preserve: 8.6 mi
- Salinas River State Beach: 8.8 mi
- Salinas River Dunes Natural Preserve: 8.8 mi
- Boronda History Center: 2.3 mi
- National Steinbeck Center: 3.3 mi
- Steinbeck House & Restaurant: 3.4 mi
- Elkhorn Slough Reserve Visitor Center: 7.7 mi
- Shakespeare Society of America: 9.0 mi
- Marina State Beach: 8.9 mi
- North Marina: 8.9 mi
- Island Beach: 9.3 mi
- Jetty Beach: 9.6 mi
- Monterey State Beach: 13.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Battle of Natividad State Historic Landmark: 4.2 mi
- Gonzalo Rodriguez fatal crash Site: 11.1 mi
- Corkscrew at WetherTech Raceway Laguna Seca: 11.1 mi
- Ingersol Family Statue: 15.3 mi
- Madrone Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
- Coulter Group Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
- Lower Day Use Area: 13.5 mi
- Day Use Area: 13.7 mi
- Lower Shade Ramada: 14.5 mi
- Memorial Rose Garden: 3.5 mi
- Yorktown community garden: 7.7 mi
- Sand City Community Garden: 13.5 mi
- Memory Garden: 15.9 mi
- Sensory Garden: 15.9 mi
- If it has no other explanation, it must be art: 8.4 mi
- Jesus Statue: 8.7 mi
- Motorcycle from license plates: 9.8 mi
- Motorcycle from chains: 9.9 mi
- Mural by Hijos del Sol: 13.6 mi
- Cavalry Bluff: 6.5 mi
- Swanson Bluff: 19.3 mi
- Los Padres Dam Slide: 23.5 mi
- Capitola Bluffs: 23.7 mi
- Horseshoe Spring: 11.3 mi
- El Pajaro Springs: 13.1 mi
- Stone Spring: 19.5 mi
- Fern Falls: 19.2 mi
- Bonfante Falls: 19.3 mi
- Fairy Falls: 24.8 mi
- Point Pinos Lighthouse: 16.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Santa Rita Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Escrito Peak | SSE 158° | 1,352 m | 23.9 mi |
| Mount Toro | S 170° | 1,081 m | 14.0 mi |
| Mount Johnson | ESE 113° | 1,048 m | 20.3 mi |
| McPhails Peak | ESE 107° | 1,016 m | 16.5 mi |
| Mount Harlan | E 98° | 991 m | 13.8 mi |
| Fremont Peak | ENE 75° | 966 m | 8.5 mi |
| Mount Reynolds | ESE 115° | 961 m | 22.9 mi |
| Santa Ana Mountain | ENE 64° | 931 m | 23.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:45 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:51 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:15 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 53 | 55 | 56 | 58 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 62 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salinas #2, 5 mi away.
- Sandmat Manzanita42 obs
- Toro manzanita40 obs
- Blainville's Horned Lizard36 obs
- Buckbrush35 obs
- Monterey spineflower24 obs
- Pink star-tulip23 obs
- Brewer's Blackbird15 obs
- virgate eriastrum15 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/36802780
Day trips start here
- Salinas · 3 mi
- Marina · 9 mi
- Moss Landing · 9 mi
- San Juan Bautista · 10 mi
- Seaside · 13 mi
- Watsonville · 15 mi
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