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Wildwood Park

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Wildwood Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 139 m. Mount Umunhum stands 1,063 m to the southeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Saratoga Historical Park, a museum 0.2 miles away.

Nice Park with lots of trees, playground, several picnic areas with bbq's you can reserve, access to stream.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
139 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates37.25814, -122.03529
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Gardens
  • Hakone Gardens: 0.5 mi
  • Phelan Cacti Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Italianate Garden: 0.9 mi
  • Saratoga Community Garden: 2.5 mi
  • Life Lab: 2.8 mi
Parks
Picnic sites
  • Longbridge: 2.0 mi
  • Redwood Grove: 2.0 mi
  • Cathedral Grove: 2.0 mi
  • Cooley: 2.6 mi
  • Pepper Tree Group Picnic Area: 3.6 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
Nature reserves
Attractions
Artworks
  • The Cats: 3.9 mi
  • Portals and Passages: 4.0 mi
  • Eolian: 4.0 mi
  • The Readers: 4.1 mi
  • The Dancers: 4.2 mi
Beaches: 58
Waterfalls: 24
Springs: 19
  • Congress Springs: 1.4 mi
  • Travertine Springs: 5.9 mi
  • Spring source: 7.9 mi
  • Cherry Springs: 8.2 mi
  • Bulls Spring: 9.8 mi
Cliffs: 13
Ghost towns: 13
Covered bridges: 2
Lighthouses: 2
  • Santa Cruz West Breakwater Light: 20.6 mi
  • Santa Cruz Lighthouse: 21.2 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridges Rock Arch: 21.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Wildwood Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount UmunhumSE 132°1,063 m10.1 mi
Mount ThayerSE 136°1,061 m9.1 mi
Mount BielawskiSW 233°985 m4.0 mi
Castle RockWSW 239°979 m3.9 mi
The PeakSW 216°917 m3.3 mi
El SombrosoSE 129°917 m8.8 mi
Lookout TowerW 259°892 m4.2 mi
Goat RockWSW 243°890 m4.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1218:4619:20
June solstice05:4919:5420:33
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:1916:1416:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F495255586267707068625449
Precip in5.04.93.41.40.50.10.00.00.00.82.04.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Gatos, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Western Fence Lizard390 obs
  • Western Honey Bee271 obs
  • Pacific poison oak189 obs
  • Dark-eyed Junco179 obs
  • Toyon125 obs
  • Acorn Woodpecker119 obs
  • California buckeye119 obs
  • Gray Buckeye103 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/39793942

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