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Walnut Hills Park

Walnut Hills Park from directly overhead

Walnut Hills Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 175 m. Turtle's Beak stands 2,090 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Butterfield Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 17 miles off.

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Coordinates34.01556, -117.87852

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • Rose Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Rose Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Rose Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Rose Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Rose Garden: 2.8 mi
Peaks
Artworks
  • Chapparel Middle School Sign: 3.8 mi
  • Figure: 3.9 mi
  • Jaguar: 4.8 mi
  • Jumping Deer: 5.3 mi
  • Brea, North of Yesterday: 5.3 mi
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
  • Redwood Grove: 7.4 mi
  • Fairplex Garden Railroad: 8.0 mi
  • M3 Lee: 10.9 mi
  • M3 Lee: 10.9 mi
  • Tongva Village: 11.6 mi
Picnic sites: 42
  • Creekside: 3.5 mi
  • Hidden Valley: 3.6 mi
  • Site A: 6.8 mi
  • Site B: 6.9 mi
  • Site E: 6.9 mi
Waterfalls: 29
  • Fish Canyon Falls: 11.7 mi
  • Wolfskill Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Mayberg Waterfall: 13.4 mi
  • Schweitzer Falls: 14.3 mi
  • Hermit Falls: 14.5 mi
Springs: 26
  • Carbon Canyon Mineral Springs: 7.4 mi
  • McDermont Spring: 10.2 mi
  • Big Cienega Spring: 10.5 mi
  • Fern Springs: 14.7 mi
  • Fallen Leaf Spring: 17.4 mi
Cliffs: 5
  • Norco Bluffs: 18.1 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 18.5 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 18.8 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 20.0 mi
  • Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 23.0 mi
Beaches: 3
Rest areas: 1
  • Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 20.5 mi
Hot springs: 1
  • Spa Palace: 22.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Walnut Hills Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Turtle's BeakNE 46°2,090 m18.7 mi
Rattlesnake PeakNNE 18°1,776 m18.6 mi
Mount WilsonNW 324°1,737 m17.8 mi
Sunset PeakNE 38°1,723 m17.6 mi
Colver PeakNE 40°1,670 m16.0 mi
Monrovia PeakNNW 339°1,649 m14.6 mi
Sunset PointNE 41°1,646 m15.7 mi
Mount HarvardNW 322°1,640 m17.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:3119:04
June solstice05:4119:3020:07
September equinox06:4018:1718:50
December solstice06:5416:0916:47

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, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard46 obs
  • Mourning Dove38 obs
  • House Finch36 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird26 obs
  • San Gabriel Mountains dudleya26 obs
  • Southern Alligator Lizard25 obs
  • Western Honey Bee22 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk21 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/442692087

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