South Shore Recreation Area
South Shore Recreation Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 164 m. Telegraph Hill stands 1,128 m to the northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Negro Jack Point, a cliff 0.9 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 27 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 164 m
How to reach it
- 26.8 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- O Byrne Ferry Historical Monument: 1.2 mi
- Private Park: 3.4 mi
- Copperopolis Town Square Park: 6.8 mi
- Tuttletown Recreation Area: 8.1 mi
- Rocca Park: 10.4 mi
- Tulloch Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Hammils Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Lightner Peak: 4.1 mi
- Rushing Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Iron Mountain: 4.8 mi
- Eastwood Ravine Trestle Bridge: 4.8 mi
- Old Crimea House: 7.3 mi
- Mark Twain Bret Harte Trail - Chinese Camp: 8.9 mi
- Cooperstown Depot: 10.2 mi
- Paulsell Depot: 12.7 mi
- Jamestown Museum: 10.4 mi
- Tuolumne County Museum: 13.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial Military Museum: 13.4 mi
- Angels Camp Museum: 13.4 mi
- Columbia Museum: 14.8 mi
- Churchs Spring: 6.5 mi
- Turners Spring: 6.9 mi
- Hicks Spring: 8.0 mi
- Gooseberry Spring: 10.3 mi
- Salt Spring: 13.0 mi
- Knights Ferry Covered Bridge: 5.9 mi
- Jamestown Branch Jail: 10.4 mi
- Moaning Caverns Adventure Park: 14.5 mi
- Murphys Pokey: 18.8 mi
- Mercer Caverns: 19.4 mi
- Chinese Camp: 8.8 mi
- French Flat: 9.0 mi
- Carson Hill: 11.0 mi
- Davis's Ferry: 17.0 mi
- Horseshoe Bend: 24.5 mi
- Negro Jack Point: 0.9 mi
- Jailhouse Rock: 2.5 mi
- Lovers Leap: 7.6 mi
- The Grotto: 7.6 mi
- Lupine Day Use Area: 8.2 mi
- Heron Point Day Use: 8.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 13.4 mi
- Moccasin Point: 14.6 mi
- Cocklebur Beach: 15.1 mi
- Dunn Court Beach: 21.5 mi
- Pine Mountain Lake Marina Beach: 21.6 mi
- Lake Lodge Beach: 22.2 mi
- Red Hills: 7.9 mi
- National Recreation Area: 8.9 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 21.4 mi
- Hughson Arboretum & Gardens: 24.5 mi
- Natural Bridge: 13.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of South Shore Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telegraph Hill | NE 53° | 1,128 m | 16.6 mi |
| Tip Top Peak | ESE 102° | 1,018 m | 18.5 mi |
| Bald Mountain | NE 56° | 1,016 m | 15.2 mi |
| Buckhorn Mountain | ENE 74° | 1,005 m | 18.1 mi |
| Blewetts Point | NE 46° | 976 m | 17.3 mi |
| Jones Hill | E 96° | 947 m | 20.0 mi |
| Moccasin Peak | ESE 111° | 894 m | 15.5 mi |
| Bear Mountain | N 3° | 879 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:49 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:06 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 50 | 54 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 81 | 80 | 76 | 66 | 55 | 48 |
| Precip in | 5.9 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Melones DAM HQ, 10 mi away.
- Osprey15 obs
- Mule Deer5 obs
- gray pine5 obs
- Canyon liveforever4 obs
- Stanislaus Monkeyflower4 obs
- Bald Eagle3 obs
- Bluegill3 obs
- Ithuriel's Spear3 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/358830265
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