Park · California
Whisman School Park
Whisman School Park is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 18 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Hetch-Hetchy Trail, a park 0.1 miles away.
How to reach it
Coordinates37.40060, -122.06696
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Hetch-Hetchy Trail: 0.1 mi
- Creekside Park: 0.3 mi
- Evandale Park: 0.5 mi
- Devonshire Park: 0.5 mi
- San Veron Park: 0.5 mi
Artworks
- The Baggage Cart: 0.7 mi
- Space Shuttle Orbiter wind tunnel model: 0.8 mi
- Window to the World: 0.8 mi
- Tick-Tock the Crocodile: 0.9 mi
- Reverse Coriolis: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
- Shenandoah Plaza: 0.8 mi
- Stan The T-Rex: 1.8 mi
- Blue and Gold Kennel Club: 2.1 mi
- Birthplace of Silicon Valley, 1956: 2.4 mi
- Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation site: 2.5 mi
Museums
- Moffett Field Model Railroad Club: 1.0 mi
- Moffett Field Historical Society Museum: 1.0 mi
- Computer History Museum: 1.1 mi
- The Foster Museum: 2.4 mi
- Los Altos History Museum: 2.8 mi
Attractions
- Lockheed P-3 Orion: 1.0 mi
- Plaza del Sol: 2.5 mi
- Plaza del Sol Labyrinth: 2.5 mi
- Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter: 4.5 mi
- Star Tower: 5.0 mi
Gardens
- Water-wise Demonstration Garden: 1.2 mi
- Sister City Friendship rock garden: 1.2 mi
- Senior Center Community Garden: 1.4 mi
- Soil&Water Garden: 1.6 mi
- Cuesta Pollinator Habitat: 2.1 mi
Picnic sites
- Bubb Park picnic area: 1.8 mi
- Redwood Group Area: 2.9 mi
- Pine Grove Group Area: 2.9 mi
- Redwood Individual Area: 3.0 mi
- Arbor Group Area: 3.1 mi
Nature reserves
- Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Juan Prado Mesa Preserve: 4.3 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 4.8 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 4.9 mi
Peaks
- Coyote Hill: 4.5 mi
- Anza Knoll: 4.9 mi
- Ewing Hill: 5.9 mi
- Elephant Mountain: 6.0 mi
- Vista Hill: 6.7 mi
Beaches: 41
- Niles beach: 12.8 mi
- Tunitas Beach: 18.6 mi
- Martins Beach: 18.9 mi
- San Gregorio Private Beach: 19.0 mi
- San Gregorio Beach: 19.3 mi
Springs: 17
- Spring source: 8.0 mi
- Congress Springs: 10.7 mi
- Travertine Springs: 11.8 mi
- McClure Spring: 12.7 mi
- Summit Spring: 13.3 mi
Waterfalls: 16
- Peter's Creek Falls: 9.4 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 9.8 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 12.2 mi
- Tip Toe Falls: 13.5 mi
- Sempervirens Falls: 17.0 mi
Ghost towns: 14
- Drawbridge: 6.8 mi
- Stokes Landing: 14.1 mi
- Lexington: 14.8 mi
- Alma: 16.0 mi
- Holy City: 17.5 mi
Cliffs: 7
- Graffiti Rock: 8.6 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 12.1 mi
- Underworld Rock: 12.2 mi
- The Bluff: 18.3 mi
- Chab: 23.1 mi
Covered bridges: 2
- Felton Covered Bridge: 24.2 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 24.2 mi
Rest areas: 1
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.2 miles of Whisman School Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bielawski | S 187° | 985 m | 12.3 mi |
| Castle Rock | S 188° | 979 m | 12.0 mi |
| The Peak | S 181° | 917 m | 12.5 mi |
| Lookout Tower | SSW 192° | 892 m | 10.9 mi |
| Goat Rock | S 191° | 890 m | 12.1 mi |
| Sunnyvale Mountain | S 180° | 880 m | 12.8 mi |
| Summit Rock | S 189° | 878 m | 11.2 mi |
| Varian Peak | SSW 193° | 873 m | 12.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:54 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
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 | 51 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 64 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moffett FED Airfield, 1 mi away.
- Monarch731 obs
- Snowy Egret280 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel269 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco233 obs
- Black-crowned Night Heron227 obs
- Great Egret223 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle216 obs
- Anna's Hummingbird205 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/38899703
Day trips start here
- Santa Cruz · 29 mi
- Capitola · 30 mi
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