Park · California
Sylvan Park
Sylvan Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Evelyn Park, a park 0.5 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 21 m
How to reach it
Coordinates37.38186, -122.06279
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Evelyn Park: 0.5 mi
- Magnolia Park: 0.6 mi
- Vargas School Park: 0.8 mi
- Sleeper Park: 0.8 mi
- Pyramid Park: 0.9 mi
Historic sites
- Blue and Gold Kennel Club: 1.0 mi
- Hendy's "California" Stamp Mill: 2.0 mi
- Martin Murphy Home and Estate: 2.0 mi
- De Anza Expedition: 2.0 mi
- Shenandoah Plaza: 2.0 mi
Artworks
- Tick-Tock the Crocodile: 1.1 mi
- Boy and Girl Playing in the Calla Lilly Field: 1.2 mi
- The Baggage Cart: 1.2 mi
- Luminous Reverie: 1.2 mi
- Toad's Book Club: 1.3 mi
Picnic sites
- Bubb Park picnic area: 1.2 mi
- Braly Picnic #1: 2.6 mi
- Braly Picnic #2: 2.7 mi
- Braly Picnic #3: 2.7 mi
- Patriot Corner Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
Gardens
- Cuesta Pollinator Habitat: 1.2 mi
- Water-wise Demonstration Garden: 1.3 mi
- Sister City Friendship rock garden: 1.3 mi
- Charles Street Garden: 1.5 mi
- Senior Center Community Garden: 2.1 mi
Attractions
- Plaza del Sol: 1.7 mi
- Plaza del Sol Labyrinth: 1.7 mi
- Lockheed P-3 Orion: 2.0 mi
- Fujitsu Planetarium: 4.4 mi
- Star Tower: 4.9 mi
Museums
- Moffett Field Model Railroad Club: 2.1 mi
- Moffett Field Historical Society Museum: 2.1 mi
- Joshua Hendy Iron Works Museum: 2.2 mi
- Computer History Museum: 2.4 mi
- Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum: 2.7 mi
Nature reserves
- Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 3.2 mi
- Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 3.2 mi
- Juan Prado Mesa Preserve: 3.6 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 3.8 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 3.8 mi
Peaks
- Anza Knoll: 3.6 mi
- Coyote Hill: 4.9 mi
- Ewing Hill: 5.3 mi
- Elephant Mountain: 5.5 mi
- Hunters Point: 6.1 mi
Beaches: 40
- Niles beach: 14.0 mi
- Tunitas Beach: 18.7 mi
- San Gregorio Private Beach: 19.0 mi
- Martins Beach: 19.0 mi
- San Gregorio Beach: 19.2 mi
Springs: 18
- Spring source: 7.2 mi
- Congress Springs: 9.4 mi
- Travertine Springs: 10.7 mi
- McClure Spring: 13.3 mi
- Summit Spring: 13.7 mi
Waterfalls: 18
- Peter's Creek Falls: 8.5 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 8.8 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 11.0 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 12.6 mi
- Sempervirens Falls: 16.0 mi
Ghost towns: 14
- Drawbridge: 7.5 mi
- Lexington: 13.5 mi
- Alma: 14.7 mi
- Stokes Landing: 15.4 mi
- Holy City: 16.2 mi
Cliffs: 9
- Graffiti Rock: 7.3 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 10.8 mi
- Underworld Rock: 10.9 mi
- The Bluff: 18.6 mi
- Waddell Bluffs: 22.8 mi
Covered bridges: 2
- Felton Covered Bridge: 22.9 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 22.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.3 miles of Sylvan Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | S 189° | 985 m | 11.1 mi |
| Castle Rock | S 190° | 979 m | 10.7 mi |
| The Peak | S 182° | 917 m | 11.3 mi |
| Lookout Tower | SSW 195° | 892 m | 9.7 mi |
| Goat Rock | SSW 193° | 890 m | 10.9 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | S 181° | 880 m | 11.5 mi |
| Summit Rock | SSW 192° | 878 m | 9.9 mi |
| Varian Peak | SSW 195° | 873 m | 10.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:54 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 51 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 64 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moffett FED Airfield, 2 mi away.
- Monarch396 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel365 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco242 obs
- American Crow223 obs
- Anna's Hummingbird196 obs
- California Towhee188 obs
- Mourning Dove180 obs
- House Finch176 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 way/14918892
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