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Wrinkle Cove Day Use Area

Wrinkle Cove Day Use Area from directly overhead

Wrinkle Cove Day Use Area is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 230 m. Mount Zion stands 899 m to the north-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Acorn Recreation Area, a park 0.8 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 24 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
230 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.17631, -120.81160

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Museums: 13
Historic sites: 13
  • Tailing Wheel No. 3: 13.1 mi
  • Flume Tressel Piers: 13.1 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 2: 13.1 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 1: 13.1 mi
  • Massa Tunnel: 13.2 mi
Attractions: 11
Springs: 9
  • Gooseberry Spring: 13.4 mi
  • Hicks Spring: 15.3 mi
  • Turners Spring: 16.6 mi
  • Spanish Spring: 17.7 mi
  • Churchs Spring: 20.0 mi
Picnic sites: 5
  • A Picnic Area: 18.9 mi
  • C Picnic Area: 18.9 mi
  • B Picnic Area: 18.9 mi
  • Heron Point Day Use: 20.7 mi
  • Lupine Day Use Area: 21.2 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Beaches: 2
Cliffs: 2
Gardens: 1
  • F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 7.9 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridge: 20.0 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • National Recreation Area: 21.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Wrinkle Cove Day Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount ZionNNE 30°899 m17.1 mi
Bear MountainSE 131°879 m16.5 mi
Joaquin PeakESE 110°854 m7.0 mi
Quiggs MountainENE 71°843 m11.4 mi
Soapstone HillE 99°799 m17.0 mi
Carmen PeakSE 136°786 m11.7 mi
High MountainE 92°748 m16.4 mi
Clinton PeakNNE 28°733 m15.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0818:4119:15
June solstice05:4119:5120:30
September equinox06:5218:2719:02
December solstice07:1716:0616:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485155596673797875665548
Precip in4.03.83.62.11.30.30.00.00.21.12.24.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Camp Pardee, 5 mi away.

  • Mule Deer17 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard14 obs
  • Pacific chorus frog13 obs
  • California Scrub-Jay11 obs
  • Canada Goose10 obs
  • Western Toad9 obs
  • Wild Turkey8 obs
  • Turkey Vulture8 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358832952

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