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Steeplechase Mini Park

Steeplechase Mini Park from directly overhead

Steeplechase Mini Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 88 m. Shoemaker Hill stands 930 m to the northeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Levy Park, a park 0.2 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
88 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.66091, -121.16716
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Levy Park: 0.2 mi
  • Natural Park: 0.4 mi
  • Lembi Community Park: 0.5 mi
  • Amos P Catlin Park: 0.5 mi
  • Reflections Mini Park: 0.5 mi
Peaks
  • Nedbelle Peak: 1.1 mi
  • Blisk Peak: 1.1 mi
  • Horse Shoe Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Carpenter Hill: 3.7 mi
  • Volcano Hill: 4.6 mi
Museums: 47
Historic sites: 43
Attractions: 40
  • Cameron Park CSD Pool: 8.8 mi
  • Southwind Labradors: 9.2 mi
  • Safetyville USA: 11.8 mi
  • Little Saigon: 17.8 mi
  • Sacramento Adventure Playground: 19.2 mi
Artworks: 36
Gardens: 28
  • Pheonix Community Garden: 3.1 mi
  • Ridgeview EcoLab: 5.4 mi
  • Prayer Garden: 10.5 mi
  • Border Garden: 13.7 mi
  • Yermol Memorial: 15.5 mi
Nature reserves: 16
  • Natomas Station Wildlife Area: 0.4 mi
  • Mormon Island Wetlands Natural Preserve: 3.8 mi
  • Miners Ravine Nature Reserve: 6.6 mi
  • Anderson Island Natural Preserve: 9.7 mi
  • Mahany Nature Reserve: 11.7 mi
Picnic sites: 14
Cliffs: 8
Beaches: 7
  • Laurel Beach: 1.3 mi
  • Moot Rock Beach: 1.4 mi
  • Horse Shoe Hill Shore: 1.5 mi
  • Pit Stop Beach: 13.6 mi
  • Oregon Bar: 15.3 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Leete Falls: 1.5 mi
  • Pecker Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Antelope Creek Falla: 10.3 mi
  • Hidden Falls: 21.1 mi
  • Rock Creek: 23.0 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Springs: 3
  • Huff Mineral Spring: 10.1 mi
  • Wetland Preserve: 10.4 mi
  • Spanish Spring: 21.3 mi
Rest areas: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.9 miles of Steeplechase Mini Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Shoemaker HillNE 51°930 m24.8 mi
Mameluke HillNE 45°822 m24.8 mi
Mount AukumESE 104°797 m24.5 mi
Round HillENE 61°775 m23.5 mi
Spanish HillENE 59°760 m22.2 mi
Negro HillENE 73°751 m22.5 mi
Bald HillNE 49°750 m22.5 mi
Union HillENE 73°719 m22.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0918:4219:17
June solstice05:4119:5420:33
September equinox06:5318:2819:03
December solstice07:2016:0516:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495357616874787774665549
Precip in3.93.62.81.40.90.20.00.00.10.91.83.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sacramento 5 ESE, 15 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Pipevine Swallowtail320 obs
  • California buckeye220 obs
  • orange bush monkeyflower206 obs
  • Canada Goose193 obs
  • Bald Eagle185 obs
  • Mallard171 obs
  • California Dutchman's Pipe153 obs
  • Pacific poison oak142 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/116056064

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