Vista Day Use Area
Vista Day Use Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 2,094 m. Mount Baden-Powell stands 2,860 m to the east, 7.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Ridge Crest Picnic Ground, a picnic site 0.4 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 20 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2094 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Angeles National Forest
How to reach it
- 20.2 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kratka Ridge: 0.4 mi
- Akawie Peak: 1.4 mi
- Goodykoontz peak: 1.5 mi
- Mount Williamson: 2.5 mi
- Will Thrall Peak: 2.5 mi
- Buckhorn Day Use Area: 1.6 mi
- Pine Hollow Picnic Area: 3.3 mi
- Devils Punchbowl County Park: 4.9 mi
- Juniper Hills Park: 8.8 mi
- Pearblossom Park: 10.5 mi
- Vincent's Cabin: 8.5 mi
- Stanley-Miller Miner's cabin: 9.6 mi
- Llano del Rio: 11.5 mi
- Deer Park Lodge: 11.5 mi
- In the Pines: 11.7 mi
- Monrovia Open Space: 12.0 mi
- Monrovia Canyon Park: 13.2 mi
- Big Dalton Canyon Wilderness Park: 13.8 mi
- Arcadia Wilderness Park: 13.9 mi
- SMMC Open Space: 14.6 mi
- A: 13.4 mi
- Eagle: 16.6 mi
- Five Minimalist Poems: 18.2 mi
- Unincorporated Mural: 18.5 mi
- William G. Kerckhoff 1856-1929: 18.6 mi
- Japanese Garden: 15.8 mi
- Community Garden: 16.1 mi
- Santa Fe Dam Nature Center Display Garden: 16.3 mi
- Vinny's Mini-World: 16.3 mi
- Australian Discovery Area: 16.7 mi
- Mount Wilson Observatory Museum: 12.8 mi
- Duarte Historical Museum: 14.5 mi
- Glendora Historical Society: 14.6 mi
- Wrightwood History Museum: 14.8 mi
- Monrovia Historical Museum: 15.1 mi
- Rattlesnake Spring: 0.8 mi
- Buckhorn Spring: 1.0 mi
- Moss Spring: 2.3 mi
- Snow Spring: 2.4 mi
- Cortelyou Spring: 2.8 mi
- Ridge Crest Picnic Ground: 0.4 mi
- Eagles Roost Day Use Area: 0.9 mi
- Charlton Flats Picnic Area: 7.9 mi
- Jackson Lake: 9.9 mi
- Grassy Hollow Picnic Area: 9.9 mi
- Devil's Punchbowl: 4.7 mi
- Sandrocks: 5.2 mi
- Bridge to Nowhere: 9.5 mi
- The "M": 14.9 mi
- Wisteria Vine, Worlds Largest Blossoming Plant: 15.5 mi
- Cooper Canyon Falls: 1.0 mi
- Dorr Canyon Falls: 6.2 mi
- Fish Canyon Falls: 11.8 mi
- Sturtevant Falls: 12.0 mi
- Hermit Falls: 13.1 mi
- Llano Del Rio: 11.5 mi
- Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 15.9 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 16.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Vista Day Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Baden-Powell | E 85° | 2,860 m | 7.3 mi |
| Throop Peak | E 89° | 2,779 m | 5.3 mi |
| Mount Burnham | E 84° | 2,740 m | 6.4 mi |
| Mount Hawkins | E 97° | 2,677 m | 5.0 mi |
| Middle Hawkins | ESE 103° | 2,593 m | 4.6 mi |
| Mount Lewis | ENE 73° | 2,546 m | 5.2 mi |
| Mount Islip | E 96° | 2,518 m | 3.0 mi |
| Mount Williamson | NE 53° | 2,504 m | 2.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:17 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:08 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 51 | 56 | 60 | 68 | 77 | 83 | 83 | 77 | 67 | 55 | 47 |
| Precip in | 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pearblossom, 11 mi away.
- Snowplant167 obs
- western columbine107 obs
- Southern Sagebrush Lizard97 obs
- scarlet monkeyflower78 obs
- Grinnell's Beardtongue75 obs
- California incense-cedar74 obs
- California fuchsia71 obs
- woollypod milkweed64 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 node/358794257
Day trips start here
- Angeles National Forest · 14 mi
- Monrovia · 16 mi
- Arcadia · 17 mi
- Covina · 18 mi
- San Dimas · 18 mi
- San Gabriel Valley · 18 mi
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