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Soldiers Memorial Park

Soldiers Memorial Park from directly overhead

Soldiers Memorial Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 624 m. Blue Mountain stands 1,835 m to the east-southeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Black Chasm Cavern, a attraction 0.7 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 20 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
624 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.44241, -120.63160

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Museums: 18
Springs: 18
  • Canzatti Spring: 5.6 mi
  • Marble Springs: 7.8 mi
  • Liddicoat Spring: 8.4 mi
  • Sugar Spring: 12.1 mi
  • Spanish Spring: 16.3 mi
Attractions: 12
  • Black Chasm Cavern: 0.7 mi
  • Kennedy Gold Mine: 9.6 mi
  • Sutter Gold Mine: 10.0 mi
  • Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 10.6 mi
  • The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 11.9 mi
Historic sites: 11
  • Tailing Wheel No. 3: 9.5 mi
  • Massa Tunnel: 9.5 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 2: 9.5 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 1: 9.5 mi
  • Flume Tressel Piers: 9.5 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Picnic sites: 3
  • Oak Leaf: 23.1 mi
  • Bridal Veil Picnic Area: 23.8 mi
  • Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
Gardens: 2
  • F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 17.6 mi
  • Sherwood Demonstration Garden: 23.4 mi
Cliffs: 2
Nature reserves: 1
Waterfalls: 1
  • Bridal Veil Falls: 23.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of Soldiers Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue MountainESE 116°1,835 m16.0 mi
Armstrong HillENE 63°1,735 m15.1 mi
Buck MountainESE 108°1,566 m14.8 mi
Baltic PeakNNE 20°1,541 m18.5 mi
Devils NoseE 83°1,445 m11.5 mi
Big MountainNE 36°1,395 m11.5 mi
Lincoln HillNNE 25°1,379 m16.7 mi
Manuel PeakSE 136°1,354 m19.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4019:15
June solstice05:4019:5120:31
September equinox06:5118:2619:01
December solstice07:1716:0416:46

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F475052566371787773655447
Precip in6.15.74.92.81.70.40.00.00.21.73.15.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutter Hill CDF, 10 mi away.

  • Pacific madrone56 obs
  • showy milkweed41 obs
  • Mountain Misery37 obs
  • California incense-cedar35 obs
  • Yellow Star-tulip28 obs
  • valley oak23 obs
  • Menzies' baby blue eyes23 obs
  • Wild Turkey21 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358827224

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