Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park
Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 32 m. Mount Yale stands 1,451 m to the north-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Watts Towers Cultural Crescent, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 8.6 miles off.
How to reach it
- 8.6 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 10 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Watts Towers Cultural Crescent: 0.0 mi
- Watts Towers Arts Center: 0.1 mi
- Watts Urban Greenway: 0.2 mi
- Grape Street Park: 0.3 mi
- One Hundred Ninth Street Recreation Center: 0.4 mi
- Heart of Watts Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial Garden: 2.6 mi
- Paramount Cortland Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- GrowGood Urban Farm: 5.4 mi
- Exposition Park Rose Garden: 6.0 mi
- Work in Progress: 1.0 mi
- Endless Miles: 1.0 mi
- Ronald E McNair Elementary School Murals: 1.7 mi
- Untitled: 2.3 mi
- Running, Standing, Walking Woman: 2.4 mi
- South Gate Museum & Art Gallery: 2.3 mi
- Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg Family Home: 2.3 mi
- Tomorrow's Aeronautical Museum: 3.4 mi
- California African American Museum: 5.9 mi
- SKETCH Foundation Gallery Air and Space Exhibits: 5.9 mi
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Site of the Childhood Home of the Beach Boys: 5.6 mi
- Olympic Gateway: 5.8 mi
- Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Olympic Cauldron: 5.8 mi
- Hispanic American Veterans Memorial: 5.8 mi
- Falcon 9 Booster B1019: 5.1 mi
- Lockheed F-104 Starfighter: 5.9 mi
- Douglas DC-8: 5.9 mi
- McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet: 6.0 mi
- Shuttle Fuel Tank: 6.0 mi
- Gardena Willows Wetland Preserve: 5.4 mi
- Dominguez Nature Preserve: 5.5 mi
- La Brea Green Belt: 8.2 mi
- Madrona Marsh Nature Preserve: 9.7 mi
- Ascot Hills Park: 9.8 mi
- Baldwin Hills: 9.7 mi
- Flat Point Park: 10.3 mi
- Montebello Hills: 10.5 mi
- Maltman peak: 10.5 mi
- Signal Hill: 10.6 mi
- Lakeside Picnic Area: 6.6 mi
- Burke-Roche Picnic Area: 8.4 mi
- Picnic Central: 8.7 mi
- Blue Lagoon: 8.8 mi
- Garden Grove: 8.8 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 17.5 mi
- Temescal Falls: 19.1 mi
- Bailey Canyon Falls: 19.5 mi
- Eaton Canyon Waterfall: 19.5 mi
- Ribbon Rocks Falls: 19.9 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 10.8 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 11.4 mi
- Mother's Beach: 12.7 mi
- Long Beach City Beach: 12.9 mi
- Mother's Beach: 14.3 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 14.5 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 21.2 mi
- Eagle Spring: 22.0 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 24.7 mi
- Fascination Spring: 24.9 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 16.2 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 22.6 mi
- Spa Palace: 8.3 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 16.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.3 miles of Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Yale | NNE 29° | 1,451 m | 21.0 mi |
| Muir Peak | NNE 23° | 1,427 m | 20.7 mi |
| Brown Mountain | NNE 15° | 1,363 m | 21.3 mi |
| West Fuji | NNE 22° | 1,121.969 m | 20.2 mi |
| Jones Peak | NNE 32° | 1,029 m | 20.2 mi |
| Lookout Point | NNE 32° | 987 m | 21.0 mi |
| Echo Mountain | NNE 20° | 968 m | 20.0 mi |
| Verdugo Peak | N 353° | 951.6 m | 19.2 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 | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:49 |
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 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 65 | 67 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 68 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hawthorne Muni AP, 5 mi away.
- Mallard119 obs
- Canada Goose111 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel103 obs
- Monarch86 obs
- Black Phoebe71 obs
- House Sparrow66 obs
- American Coot62 obs
- Tundra Bean Goose59 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/40186827
Day trips start here
- Lynwood · 2 mi
- Compton · 3 mi
- Huntington Park · 3 mi
- Gardena · 5 mi
- Los Angeles/South · 5 mi
- Downey · 6 mi
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