Yosemite Recreation Center
Yosemite Recreation Center is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 181 m. Strawberry Peak stands 1,879 m to the north-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is FEAST: Oxy Student Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 2.0 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 181 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks
How to reach it
- 2.0 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 4 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- FEAST: Oxy Student Garden: 0.2 mi
- Milagro Allegro Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- Palmer Park Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Wrigley Gardens: 2.8 mi
- Arlington Garden: 3.0 mi
- Fiji Hill: 0.2 mi
- Poppy Peak: 1.6 mi
- Eagle Rock: 1.6 mi
- Adams Hill: 1.6 mi
- Flint Peak: 2.3 mi
- President's Garden: 0.3 mi
- Sycamore Glen: 0.4 mi
- Lanark/Shelby Mini Park: 1.2 mi
- Eagle Rock Hillside Park: 1.3 mi
- Cleland Avenue Bicentennial Park: 1.3 mi
- Egasse Braasch House -- The Good Will Hunting House: 1.0 mi
- Bird Sanctuary: 2.4 mi
- Colorado Street Bridge: 2.6 mi
- The Century House: 3.1 mi
- Old Pasadena Historic District: 3.5 mi
- Los Angeles Police Museum: 1.5 mi
- Highland Park Ebell Club: 1.8 mi
- Southwest Museum of the American Indian: 2.2 mi
- Forest Lawn Museum: 2.2 mi
- Lummis Home: 2.7 mi
- Chicken Boy: 1.8 mi
- Peace Monument of Glendale: 2.7 mi
- 2005 Glendale train crash Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Defenders of the Union: 3.6 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 3.6 mi
- Elyria Canyon Park: 2.2 mi
- Lower Arroyo Park: 2.4 mi
- Polygon Open Space: 2.4 mi
- Rose Hill Park: 3.1 mi
- Bachman Open Space: 3.4 mi
- Student Gallery: 2.9 mi
- Williamson Gallery: 2.9 mi
- Fork in the Road: 3.0 mi
- Angel's Point: 4.1 mi
- Giant Ball: 4.5 mi
- Sycamore Glen: 0.4 mi
- Art Center Food Garden: 2.9 mi
- Crystal Springs Picnic Area: 4.0 mi
- Joe Klass Water Stop: 4.3 mi
- Park Center: 4.3 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 12.7 mi
- Fascination Spring: 12.9 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 12.9 mi
- Silk Tassel Spring: 13.1 mi
- Yerba Buena Spring: 14.9 mi
- Millard Falls: 7.1 mi
- Ribbon Rocks Falls: 7.4 mi
- Moss Grotto Falls: 7.4 mi
- Grand Chasm Falls: 7.4 mi
- Suspended Boulder Falls: 7.5 mi
- Mother's Beach: 17.7 mi
- Palisades Beach: 19.0 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 19.8 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 20.8 mi
- Castle Rock Beach: 21.3 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 9.2 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 22.1 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 22.5 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 22.6 mi
- Spa Palace: 6.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.4 miles of Yosemite Recreation Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Peak | NNE 25° | 1,879 m | 11.6 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | NE 39° | 1,878 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Disappointment | NE 37° | 1,819 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Lawlor | NNE 32° | 1,807 m | 11.3 mi |
| Mount Deception | NNE 33° | 1,767 m | 9.7 mi |
| Mount Markham | NE 41° | 1,746 m | 9.6 mi |
| Mount Wilson | NE 53° | 1,737 m | 10.5 mi |
| Occidental Peak | NE 45° | 1,736 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 16:09 | 16:48 |
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 | 57 | 58 | 61 | 63 | 66 | 71 | 76 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 62 | 56 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pasadena, 4 mi away.
- Western Fence Lizard1,292 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel1,112 obs
- Western Honey Bee526 obs
- Red-crowned Amazon457 obs
- Coyote392 obs
- Monarch381 obs
- Black Phoebe359 obs
- California Towhee352 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/584205965
Day trips start here
- South Pasadena · 3 mi
- Glendale · 4 mi
- Los Angeles/Eastside · 4 mi
- Alhambra · 5 mi
- La Cañada Flintridge · 5 mi
- Los Angeles/Northwest · 5 mi
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