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Sweetwater Heights Park

Sweetwater Heights Park from directly overhead

Sweetwater Heights Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 50 m. Tecate Peak stands 1,184 m to the east-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Tonawanda Park, a park 0.3 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
50 m

How to reach it

Coordinates32.66175, -117.05845

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Artworks
Peaks
Attractions
  • Big Bird's Rambling River: 5.7 mi
  • Abby's Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Sesame Street Party Parade: 5.8 mi
  • Sesame Street Neighborhood: 5.8 mi
  • Lemon Grove Big Lemon: 5.8 mi
Historic sites
  • Montgomery Memorial: 5.8 mi
  • Charlie Keever and Jonathan Sellers: 5.8 mi
  • Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument: 6.0 mi
  • PSA Flight 182 Memorial: 6.4 mi
  • Chopper, The Navy Seal Dog: 6.7 mi
Gardens: 38
Cliffs: 27
  • South Rim: 8.2 mi
  • Point Loma: 10.7 mi
  • Middle Earth: 11.2 mi
  • Middle Earth: 11.2 mi
  • Middle Earth: 11.2 mi
Beaches: 23
Nature reserves: 21
Springs: 11
  • Sweetwater Spring: 6.8 mi
  • La Honda Spring: 10.9 mi
  • Dog Spring: 10.9 mi
  • Hubbard Spring: 14.2 mi
  • Echo Spring: 17.1 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Africa Rocks Waterfall: 7.5 mi
  • Adobe Falls: 8.2 mi
  • Lower Adobe Falls: 8.2 mi
  • Los Penasquitos Waterfall: 19.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.1 miles of Sweetwater Heights Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Tecate PeakESE 105°1,184 m22.2 mi
Gaskill PeakENE 75°1,157 m20.6 mi
Lyons PeakE 81°1,139 m17.4 mi
El Cajon MountainNE 38°1,112 m22.3 mi
Lawson PeakENE 77°1,099 m19.8 mi
Otay MountainESE 110°1,067 m13.3 mi
El CapitanNE 37°1,026 m22.1 mi
Elena MountainE 84°1,015 m19.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2819:00
June solstice05:4219:2420:00
September equinox06:3718:1418:46
December solstice06:4716:1016:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F575859616366707171676156
Precip in1.82.31.40.70.30.00.10.00.10.40.61.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chula Vista, 2 mi away.

  • House Finch157 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard148 obs
  • Western Honey Bee136 obs
  • Mallard133 obs
  • Western Bluebird116 obs
  • Black Phoebe114 obs
  • California Towhee98 obs
  • Monarch97 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 way/130345029

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