Oat Mountain
Oat Mountain rises to 1,138 m in California. Magic Mountain stands 1,477 m to the east-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Transformers -- Mikaela Under Bumblebee's Hood, a attraction 0.7 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 27 miles off.
The story
Oat Mountain is a peak of the Santa Susana Mountains overlooking the San Fernando Valley (near Los Angeles, California) to the south and southeast. Oat Mountain is the highest peak in the Santa Susana Mountains of California. The Los Angeles district of Chatsworth is to the south of the mountain. There are many microwave relay antennas as well as Doppler weather equipment at Oat Mountain. SoCal Gas has several wells in the area as well.
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Wikidata Q7074451, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,138 m
How to reach it
- 27.2 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Transformers -- Mikaela Under Bumblebee's Hood: 0.7 mi
- Munch Box: 5.0 mi
- Roaring Rapids: 6.3 mi
- Viper: 6.3 mi
- SlingShot: 6.3 mi
- Towsley Peak: 1.9 mi
- Sand Rock Peak: 2.7 mi
- Rocky Peak: 3.3 mi
- Garden of the Gods: 3.9 mi
- Mission Point: 4.0 mi
- Jane & Bert Boeckmann Park: 3.0 mi
- Holleigh Bernson Memorial Park: 3.1 mi
- Pico Canyon Park: 3.4 mi
- Moonshine Canyon Park: 3.6 mi
- Jake Kuredjian Park: 3.8 mi
- Virginia Watson Chatsworth Museum: 4.9 mi
- William S. Hart Museum: 5.2 mi
- Bunkhouse: 5.3 mi
- William S. Hart Ranch House: 5.3 mi
- Heritage Junction Historic Park: 5.4 mi
- Sustainable Landscape Demonstration Garden: 7.3 mi
- Botanical Garden: 7.6 mi
- Rainforest: 7.6 mi
- Meditation Garden: 7.8 mi
- Hummingbird Garden: 8.3 mi
- Tiki: 4.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 6.3 mi
- Tree of Life: 6.3 mi
- Celebrating the Filming of E.T. on White Oak in 1981: 6.4 mi
- Centennial Mural: 6.6 mi
- Pico No. 4: 3.2 mi
- Hagop "Jake" Kuredjian Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Dr. Mario A. De Campos Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Mount Sinai Memorial Park: 4.9 mi
- Old Santa Susana Stage Road: 5.0 mi
- Hialeah Springs: 3.9 mi
- Los Pinetos Spring: 9.0 mi
- Lower Sulphur Spring: 12.5 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 13.1 mi
- Arundell Spring: 14.3 mi
- Johnson Park: 3.2 mi
- Tumbleweeds: 5.3 mi
- Wagon Tracks: 5.3 mi
- Paradise Picnic Pavilion: 6.7 mi
- Redwood Grove: 9.2 mi
- Hidden Creeks Open Space: 1.8 mi
- Ron Bishop & Judge Anderson Park: 2.2 mi
- Green Ranch: 2.5 mi
- Gopher Canyon (Native Plant Restoration Area): 2.7 mi
- Laing-Brookfield Open Space: 2.8 mi
- Castle Rock Beach: 20.1 mi
- Topanga County Beach: 20.1 mi
- Big Rock Beach: 20.2 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 20.3 mi
- Carbon - La Costa Beach: 20.3 mi
- Whitney Canyon Waterfalls: 7.7 mi
- Santa Ynez Falls: 16.5 mi
- Temescal Falls: 18.4 mi
- Paradise Falls: 19.4 mi
- Trail Canyon Falls: 19.7 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 3.8 mi
- Malibu Bluffs: 21.4 mi
- Echo Cliffs: 23.3 mi
- Mentryville: 3.5 mi
- Coba Arch: 13.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.1 miles of Oat Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Mountain | ENE 76° | 1,477 m | 16.0 mi |
| Mendenhall Peak | E 85° | 1,413 m | 16.4 mi |
| Hopper Mountain | NW 304° | 1,381 m | 18.2 mi |
| Whitaker Peak | NNW 336° | 1,262 m | 18.4 mi |
| Red Mountain | NNE 14° | 1,213 m | 18.3 mi |
| May Peak | E 81° | 1,203 m | 9.9 mi |
| Warm Springs Mountain | N 4° | 1,193 m | 18.4 mi |
| Contract Point | E 86° | 1,108 m | 11.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:33 | 20:10 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:20 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 06:58 | 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 | 55 | 55 | 59 | 61 | 67 | 72 | 79 | 80 | 77 | 69 | 60 | 53 |
| Precip in | 4.2 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newhall 5NW, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 246792 — Oat Mountain, Los Angeles County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358789966
Day trips start here
- Chatsworth · 5 mi
- Valencia · 5 mi
- Magic Mountain · 7 mi
- Santa Clarita Valley · 7 mi
- Simi Valley · 7 mi
- Santa Clarita · 8 mi
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