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Union Cemetery

Union Cemetery from directly overhead

Union Cemetery is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Lookout Tower stands 892 m to the south-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Fleishman Park, a park 0.1 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates37.47314, -122.22317

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Fleishman Park: 0.1 mi
  • Linden Park: 0.3 mi
  • Palm Park: 0.3 mi
  • Hawes Park: 0.4 mi
  • Jardin de Niños: 0.6 mi
Gardens
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
Peaks
Picnic sites
Attractions
  • Public Bocce Court: 1.9 mi
  • Historic Railroad Station: 2.6 mi
  • El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 3.4 mi
  • Tower Well structure (historic): 3.6 mi
  • Stem Cell Research information placards: 3.8 mi
Beaches: 45
  • Coyote Point Beach: 9.8 mi
  • Aardvark Beach: 10.0 mi
  • Whale Bone Beach: 12.1 mi
  • Cowell Ranch Beach: 12.2 mi
  • Poplar Beach: 12.2 mi
Waterfalls: 17
Springs: 8
  • Summit Spring: 5.7 mi
  • Summit Spring: 5.7 mi
  • Spring source: 11.6 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 16.8 mi
  • Congress Springs: 18.2 mi
Ghost towns: 7
Cliffs: 6
  • Graffiti Rock: 15.9 mi
  • Aramai Point: 17.8 mi
  • Underworld Rock: 18.4 mi
  • Lyme Disease Rock: 18.5 mi
  • Chab: 18.6 mi
Lighthouses: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.9 miles of Union Cemetery. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Lookout TowerSSE 158°892 m16.9 mi
Summit RockSSE 157°878 m17.4 mi
Varian PeakSSE 161°873 m17.8 mi
Black MountainSSE 159°849 m11.5 mi
Turtle RockSSE 163°812 m14.7 mi
Borel HillS 173°766 m10.7 mi
Morena SierraSW 227°731 m6.4 mi
China GradeS 179°719 m17.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4719:21
June solstice05:4919:5520:34
September equinox06:5718:3319:07
December solstice07:2116:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F505255586266696967625449
Precip in3.83.63.01.10.50.20.00.00.10.91.93.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Redwood City, under a mile away.

  • Dark-eyed Junco193 obs
  • Black Phoebe190 obs
  • House Finch159 obs
  • Anna's Hummingbird152 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel150 obs
  • fennel129 obs
  • Snowy Egret125 obs
  • Greater Yellowlegs124 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/43762549

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