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Trimmer Recreation Area

Trimmer Recreation Area from directly overhead

Trimmer Recreation Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 293 m. Nelson Mountain stands 3,120 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Hacker Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
293 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.90384, -119.29096

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
Springs: 17
Historic sites: 17
  • Academy: 13.6 mi
  • Exact Center of California: 20.1 mi
  • Cottonwood Park Arch: 23.1 mi
  • Cottonwood Park Observation Point: 23.1 mi
  • Old Town Monument: 23.2 mi
Attractions: 10
  • Whitewater Voyages Headquarters: 8.5 mi
  • Zephyr Headquarters: 8.5 mi
  • Chicago Stump: 18.8 mi
  • Table Mountain Casino: 20.4 mi
  • Gamlin Cabin: 20.7 mi
Picnic sites: 8
Waterfalls: 6
Museums: 5
  • Museum of the Sierra: 15.1 mi
  • Sanger Depot Museum: 20.3 mi
  • Reedley Museum: 23.0 mi
  • Tarpey Depot: 23.3 mi
  • Millerton Courthouse Museum: 23.3 mi
Cliffs: 4
Artworks: 3
  • Bookie Bear: 11.6 mi
  • Clovis Rodeo Statue: 23.3 mi
  • Dinuba Christian Church Statue: 24.9 mi
Beaches: 3
Nature reserves: 2
  • Big Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 19.4 mi
  • Kinsman Flat Wildlife Area: 21.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Gardens: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Trimmer Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Nelson MountainNE 46°3,120 m18.5 mi
Bear MountainNE 39°2,903 m17.2 mi
Dome of the Immaculate ConceptionNE 56°2,805 m18.7 mi
Marble PointNE 36°2,703 m17.5 mi
Hall MountainENE 60°2,621 m17.8 mi
Patterson MountainENE 69°2,479 m13.8 mi
Bald MountainNNE 19°2,389 m14.6 mi
Dinkey DomeNNE 31°2,347 m17.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0218:3519:09
June solstice05:3919:4220:21
September equinox06:4618:2118:56
December solstice07:0716:0416:45

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F464853586573818176665345
Precip in5.64.95.12.61.40.40.20.00.21.42.14.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Balch PWR House, 11 mi away.

  • Menzies' baby blue eyes4 obs
  • Dove's-foot crane's-bill4 obs
  • Fiesta Flower4 obs
  • California Ground Squirrel4 obs
  • Western Bluebird3 obs
  • bird's-eye gilia3 obs
  • caterpillar scorpionweed3 obs
  • Prettyface3 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 node/358777458

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