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Tawny Park

Tawny Park from directly overhead

Tawny Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 113 m. Mount Diablo stands 1,173 m to the north-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is McKinley Park, a park 0.7 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates37.66374, -121.85467

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Artworks
  • Elatus: 3.2 mi
  • Turtle Statue: 3.7 mi
  • Don Biddle Memorial: 4.0 mi
  • Conversation: 4.3 mi
  • Tassajara Road Gear Sculpture: 4.5 mi
Picnic sites
  • Picnic Area: 3.5 mi
  • Covered picnic zone: 4.3 mi
  • Group picnic zone: 4.3 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 5.3 mi
  • John C. Calhoun Memorial Table: 5.7 mi
Peaks
Gardens
Nature reserves
Springs: 18
  • Eugene Spring: 7.4 mi
  • Strommer Spring-Drinking water(must be treated): 10.7 mi
  • McClure Spring: 10.9 mi
  • Marsh Creek Headwaters Spring: 11.4 mi
  • Sulfur Spring: 13.1 mi
Ghost towns: 10
Beaches: 6
  • Shadow Cliffs Beach: 0.8 mi
  • Niles beach: 10.1 mi
  • Del Valle East Beach: 10.1 mi
  • Del Valle West Beach: 10.6 mi
  • Sandy Beach: 20.6 mi
Cliffs: 6
  • Del Valle Cliffs: 6.7 mi
  • The Bluff: 12.1 mi
  • The Devil's Shelf: 14.1 mi
  • Turtle Rock: 14.9 mi
  • Chab: 15.7 mi
Waterfalls: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.0 miles of Tawny Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount DiabloNNW 348°1,173 m15.4 mi
Black MountainSSE 152°1,169 m17.8 mi
Rose PeakSE 146°1,163 m12.7 mi
Mount LewisSE 143°1,136 m15.8 mi
Cedar MountainESE 118°1,118 m15.4 mi
Devil's PulpitNNW 348°1,110 m15.4 mi
North PeakN 351°1,084 m16.1 mi
Lookout PointSE 135°1,051 m14.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4519:20
June solstice05:4719:5420:33
September equinox06:5618:3119:06
December solstice07:2016:1216:53

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485054576268727270645448
Precip in2.82.92.21.10.60.10.00.10.10.71.72.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Livermore Muni AP, 3 mi away.

  • valley oak144 obs
  • coast live oak111 obs
  • California Gall Wasp106 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard87 obs
  • Mallard82 obs
  • Great Blue Heron80 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk67 obs
  • California poppy66 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/43985850

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