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Signal Hill Park

Signal Hill Park from directly overhead

Signal Hill Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 30 m. Mount Lee stands 521 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Jenni Rivera Memorial Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 19 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
30 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates33.79624, -118.16909

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Jenni Rivera Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
  • Hilltop Park: 0.3 mi
  • Chittick Field: 0.3 mi
  • Sunset View Park: 0.4 mi
  • Rotary Centennial Park: 0.5 mi
Gardens
  • Horticulture: 0.4 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 1.0 mi
  • National Guard Armory Drought Tolerant Garden: 1.0 mi
  • drought tolerant demo garden: 1.6 mi
  • Chestnut Community Garden: 2.1 mi
Historic sites
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: 0.6 mi
  • Bob Lemon Memorial: 2.1 mi
  • JAAN-2 Gun Battery: 2.2 mi
  • Lone Sailor commemorative: 2.5 mi
  • Douglas Park Globe: 2.5 mi
Artworks
Museums
Attractions
  • Laura Trelstad: 1.8 mi
  • Grand Prix of Long Beach Podium: 2.4 mi
  • Red Car Greenbelt: 2.5 mi
  • Grand Prix of Long Beach Finish Line: 2.6 mi
  • The Queen Mary Ship: 3.2 mi
Nature reserves: 59
  • Marine Stadium Reserve: 3.0 mi
  • Jack Dunster Marine Biological Reserve: 3.7 mi
  • Gull Park: 4.6 mi
  • Dominguez Nature Preserve: 7.1 mi
  • Least Tern Site: 7.1 mi
Peaks: 45
Picnic sites: 32
  • Mother's Beach: 3.9 mi
  • Lakeside Picnic Area: 11.1 mi
  • Day Camp: 12.0 mi
  • Disneyland Resort Picnic Area: 14.3 mi
  • Washington Park Picnic Area: 15.9 mi
Beaches: 16
Waterfalls: 6
  • Washout Falls: 14.3 mi
  • Frog Jump Falls: 14.3 mi
  • Bear Claw Fall: 14.3 mi
  • Schweitzer Falls: 14.4 mi
  • Historic Dam: 22.9 mi
Springs: 2
  • Kuruvungna Springs: 23.9 mi
  • Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 24.7 mi
Lighthouses: 1
Cliffs: 1
Hot springs: 1
  • Spa Palace: 18.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Signal Hill Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LeeNNW 339°521 m25.0 mi
Gilman PeakENE 69°514 m24.2 mi
Mount HollywoodNNW 342°492 m24.2 mi
Mount ChapelNNW 341°492 m24.8 mi
Mount BellNNW 342°482 m24.6 mi
Taco PeakNNW 342°479 m24.5 mi
San Pedro HillWSW 250°449 m10.2 mi
Mount Baby BellNNW 342°447 m24.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:3219:05
June solstice05:4319:3020:07
September equinox06:4218:1818:51
December solstice06:5516:1016:49

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F575860636669737473686257
Precip in2.93.01.60.60.30.10.00.00.10.50.82.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Long Beach Daugherty AP, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard160 obs
  • Monarch119 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel118 obs
  • Southern Alligator Lizard108 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider104 obs
  • California brittlebush102 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk98 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/418099825

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