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Walnut Creek Park

Walnut Creek Park from directly overhead

Walnut Creek Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 242 m. Ontario Peak stands 2,640 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Loma Vista Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 18 miles off.

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Coordinates34.09018, -117.83072

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Meditation Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Vale of Faith Gardens: 1.8 mi
  • Garden of Family Love: 1.9 mi
  • Rose Garden: 2.1 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 2.2 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Artworks
Attractions
  • Fairplex Garden Railroad: 3.8 mi
  • Tongva Village: 6.9 mi
  • The "M": 11.5 mi
  • Redwood Grove: 12.1 mi
  • Reid-Baldwin Adobe: 13.2 mi
Picnic sites: 42
  • Site A: 2.0 mi
  • Site B: 2.0 mi
  • Site D: 2.0 mi
  • Site C: 2.0 mi
  • Site E: 2.0 mi
Springs: 36
  • Big Cienega Spring: 4.8 mi
  • Fern Springs: 9.8 mi
  • Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 10.3 mi
  • Fallen Leaf Spring: 11.6 mi
  • Forked Spruce Spring: 12.3 mi
Waterfalls: 31
  • Wolfskill Falls: 7.5 mi
  • Fish Canyon Falls: 8.3 mi
  • Hermit Falls: 12.7 mi
  • Mayberg Waterfall: 13.4 mi
  • Sturtevant Falls: 13.7 mi
Cliffs: 5
  • Norco Bluffs: 18.0 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 18.2 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 18.4 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 19.3 mi
  • Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 21.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 14.9 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Walnut Creek Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Ontario PeakNE 51°2,640 m15.2 mi
Sadie HawkinsN 3°2,453 m16.1 mi
Iron MountainNNE 26°2,419 m15.3 mi
South Mount HawkinsN 4°2,369 m15.3 mi
Twin PeaksNNW 341°2,365 m16.5 mi
Sugarloaf PeakNE 47°2,091 m15.3 mi
Turtle's BeakNE 53°2,090 m13.3 mi
Greater Calamity PeakENE 60°2,068 m15.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:3019:03
June solstice05:4119:3020:07
September equinox06:4018:1718:50
December solstice06:5416:0816:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F565660636671767875676054
Precip in2.94.12.11.00.20.10.00.00.01.00.72.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pomona/fairplex, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Mallard322 obs
  • Canada Goose223 obs
  • American Coot206 obs
  • Western Bluebird180 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard170 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk162 obs
  • Spotted Sandpiper150 obs
  • Western Grebe145 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/475922535

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