Vasona Lake County Park
Vasona Lake County Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 92 m. Loma Prieta stands 1,154 m to the southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Pepper Tree Group Picnic Area, a picnic site 0.1 miles away.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Santa Clara County Parks
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Pepper Tree Group Picnic Area: 0.1 mi
- Pepper Tree Group Picnic Area: 0.1 mi
- Lakeview Group Picnic Area: 0.2 mi
- Lakeview Group Picnic Area: 0.2 mi
- Lakeview Group Picnic Area: 0.2 mi
- W.E. "Bill" Mason Carousel: 0.4 mi
- Downtown Campbell Water Tower: 3.4 mi
- Rebel Yell Haunted House: 3.9 mi
- Alma Culture Landscape: 4.4 mi
- Municipal Rose Garden: 6.7 mi
- Oak Meadow Park: 0.5 mi
- Oak Hill Playlot: 0.7 mi
- Live Oak Manor Park: 0.9 mi
- Blossom Hill Park: 1.0 mi
- Bachman Park: 1.3 mi
- Vasona Lake Eucalyptus Grove: 0.5 mi
- Worcester Park: 1.3 mi
- St. Joseph's Hill Open Space Preserve: 2.4 mi
- Heintz Open Space: 2.4 mi
- Santa Rosa Openspace: 3.0 mi
- Shir Hadash Memorial Garden: 0.9 mi
- Forbes Flour Mill: 1.4 mi
- George & Ruth Barati: 1.5 mi
- Flame of Liberty: 1.5 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Forbes Mill Museum: 1.4 mi
- New Museum of Los Gatos: 1.5 mi
- Campbell Historical Museum: 3.5 mi
- Saratoga Historical Park: 3.6 mi
- Youth Science Institute Sanborn: 5.2 mi
- Eolian: 1.5 mi
- Portals and Passages: 1.5 mi
- The Cats: 2.1 mi
- Circles and Stars: 4.6 mi
- Fuel Tank: 4.7 mi
- Saint Josephs Hill: 2.5 mi
- Blossom Hill: 2.6 mi
- Priest Rock: 3.1 mi
- Collords Peak: 3.2 mi
- Lone Hill: 3.2 mi
- Saratoga Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- Phelan Cacti Garden: 3.3 mi
- Italianate Garden: 3.3 mi
- Hakone Gardens: 4.0 mi
- Life Lab: 4.2 mi
- Cable Car Beach: 15.3 mi
- Potbelly Beach: 18.3 mi
- Potbelly Beach: 18.4 mi
- Esplanade Park Beach: 18.6 mi
- Capitola Beach: 18.7 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 7.5 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 10.2 mi
- Peter's Creek Falls: 11.3 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 13.8 mi
- Sempervirens Falls: 13.8 mi
- Congress Springs: 4.7 mi
- Cherry Springs: 4.8 mi
- Travertine Springs: 9.4 mi
- Santa Teresa Springs: 9.7 mi
- Sulpher Springs: 11.6 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 6.2 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 6.8 mi
- Underworld Rock: 7.1 mi
- Upper Quarry: 17.4 mi
- Upper Quarry: 17.4 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 14.3 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 14.3 mi
- Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 19.4 mi
- Santa Cruz Lighthouse: 20.2 mi
- Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 20.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Vasona Lake County Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loma Prieta | SE 142° | 1,154 m | 11.3 mi |
| Crystal Peak | SE 140° | 1,097 m | 11.5 mi |
| Mount Umunhum | SE 145° | 1,063 m | 6.8 mi |
| Mount Thayer | SSE 152° | 1,061 m | 6.0 mi |
| Mount Chual | SE 138° | 1,046 m | 11.3 mi |
| Mount Bielawski | W 260° | 985 m | 6.9 mi |
| Castle Rock | W 263° | 979 m | 7.0 mi |
| El Sombroso | SE 143° | 917 m | 5.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:53 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 52 | 55 | 58 | 62 | 67 | 70 | 70 | 68 | 62 | 54 | 49 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 4.9 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Gatos, under a mile away.
- Black-crowned Night Heron679 obs
- Canada Goose640 obs
- American Coot593 obs
- Mallard550 obs
- Pied-billed Grebe520 obs
- Green Heron450 obs
- Western Bluebird365 obs
- Great Blue Heron337 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/31975037
Day trips start here
- Aptos · 18 mi
- Capitola · 18 mi
- Santa Cruz · 19 mi
- Watsonville · 25 mi
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