Veterans Memorial Park
Veterans Memorial Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 45 m. Mount Markham stands 1,746 m to the north, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Treasure Island Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 9.2 miles off.
How to reach it
- 9.2 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Treasure Island Park: 0.4 mi
- Bench: 0.4 mi
- Hannon Park: 0.5 mi
- Botanical Gardens: 0.6 mi
- Botanical Gardens: 0.6 mi
- Hispanic American Veterans Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument: 3.9 mi
- Whittier Boulevard Arch: 4.2 mi
- Freedom Memorial: 5.0 mi
- Downey Art Museum: 1.5 mi
- McDonald's Museum: 1.8 mi
- Columbia Memorial Space Center: 3.7 mi
- Hathaway Ranch Museum: 3.7 mi
- Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg Family Home: 4.7 mi
- McDonald's Sign: 1.8 mi
- OBSERVATION POST 1: 2.5 mi
- Founders Plaza: 3.7 mi
- Fertile Minds aka "Books Bunny": 3.7 mi
- The Garden Gate: 4.5 mi
- GrowGood Urban Farm: 2.7 mi
- Paramount Cortland Community Garden: 5.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial Garden: 5.3 mi
- Paegent of Roses Garden: 5.8 mi
- Pinewood Urn Garden: 5.9 mi
- Citadel Outlets: 2.8 mi
- Apollo Boilerplate 12: 3.6 mi
- Coyolxauhqui Plaza: 6.4 mi
- M3 Lee: 6.5 mi
- M3 Lee: 6.5 mi
- Montebello Hills: 4.4 mi
- Whittier Hill: 6.8 mi
- Workman Hill: 7.2 mi
- Flat Point Park: 9.0 mi
- Oneonta Knoll: 9.1 mi
- Bosque del Rio Hondo Natural Area: 5.1 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 6.0 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 6.2 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 6.8 mi
- Puente Hills Preserve: 7.5 mi
- Group Picnic Area: 6.0 mi
- Covered Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Hidden Valley: 11.4 mi
- Creekside: 11.4 mi
- Sycamore Glen: 11.7 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 12.3 mi
- Bailey Canyon Falls: 14.7 mi
- Eaton Canyon Waterfall: 15.5 mi
- Ribbon Rocks Falls: 16.2 mi
- Moss Grotto Falls: 16.2 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 14.7 mi
- Mother's Beach: 14.8 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 17.7 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 18.1 mi
- Mother's Beach: 19.0 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 19.7 mi
- Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 20.0 mi
- Big Cienega Spring: 22.0 mi
- McDermont Spring: 22.5 mi
- Fern Springs: 22.9 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 19.8 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 21.2 mi
- Spa Palace: 10.0 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 20.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Veterans Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Markham | N 5° | 1,746 m | 18.3 mi |
| Mount Wilson | NNE 12° | 1,737 m | 17.8 mi |
| Occidental Peak | N 8° | 1,736 m | 18.3 mi |
| Mount Lowe | N 4° | 1,699 m | 17.9 mi |
| Mount Harvard | NNE 12° | 1,640 m | 17.0 mi |
| Rankin Peak | NNE 28° | 1,606 m | 18.5 mi |
| Mount Yale | NNE 13° | 1,451 m | 16.4 mi |
| Muir Peak | N 5° | 1,427 m | 16.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
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 | 57 | 58 | 61 | 63 | 67 | 71 | 75 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 62 | 57 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 2.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Gabriel Fire Dept, 8 mi away.
- Western Fence Lizard80 obs
- Western Honey Bee57 obs
- Monarch53 obs
- House Sparrow50 obs
- Common Pill Woodlouse47 obs
- Mallard44 obs
- Black Phoebe40 obs
- Brown Widow38 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/442692880
Day trips start here
- Downey · 2 mi
- Pico Rivera · 2 mi
- City of Commerce · 3 mi
- Santa Fe Springs · 3 mi
- Gateway Cities · 4 mi
- Lynwood · 5 mi
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