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Serra Mesa Recreation Center

Serra Mesa Recreation Center from directly overhead

Serra Mesa Recreation Center is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 123 m. El Cajon Mountain stands 1,112 m to the east-northeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Multiple, a artwork 1.2 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
123 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates32.80560, -117.13309
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Artworks
Parks
  • Celestine Park: 1.3 mi
  • Avion Community Park: 1.4 mi
  • Centrum Park: 1.6 mi
  • Easting Park: 1.7 mi
  • Civita Park: 1.9 mi
Gardens
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Peaks
  • South Fortuna Mountain: 4.9 mi
  • North Fortuna Mountain: 5.1 mi
  • Kwaay Paay Peak: 5.3 mi
  • Marston Point: 5.6 mi
  • Pyles Peak: 5.6 mi
Cliffs: 26
  • Middle Earth: 4.9 mi
  • Middle Earth: 5.0 mi
  • Middle Earth: 5.0 mi
  • Limbo - Deviation: 5.0 mi
  • The Underworld: 5.0 mi
Nature reserves: 25
Beaches: 24
Springs: 10
  • Dog Spring: 5.3 mi
  • Sweetwater Spring: 10.9 mi
  • La Honda Spring: 15.5 mi
  • Rock Haven Spring: 16.3 mi
  • Durasnitos Spring: 19.2 mi
Picnic sites: 5
  • Ridgetop Picnic Site: 18.9 mi
  • Tree Lake Picnic Area No. 3: 19.1 mi
  • Ray Love Picnic Area: 19.1 mi
  • El Arroyo Picnic Area: 19.4 mi
  • Royal Picnic Area: 24.6 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Lower Adobe Falls: 4.0 mi
  • Adobe Falls: 4.0 mi
  • Africa Rocks Waterfall: 4.8 mi
  • Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 8.8 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.2 miles of Serra Mesa Recreation Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
El Cajon MountainENE 67°1,112 m19.7 mi
El CapitanENE 66°1,026 m19.2 mi
Rock MountainENE 65°996 m20.6 mi
Silverdome IIENE 65°970.36 m18.5 mi
Woodson MountainNE 34°878 m16.9 mi
Sycuan PeakE 100°840 m19.3 mi
North Iron MountainNE 38°824 m16.4 mi
Iron MountainNE 42°818 m15.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2819:01
June solstice05:4219:2420:01
September equinox06:3718:1418:47
December solstice06:4816:0916:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F575759626467727473686156
Precip in2.32.61.60.80.30.10.10.00.20.50.91.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Diego Montgomery FLD, under a mile away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard161 obs
  • Garden Snail90 obs
  • Southern Alligator Lizard72 obs
  • Western Honey Bee70 obs
  • lemonade berry62 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog56 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird55 obs
  • Black Phoebe55 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 node/358845685

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