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Acorn Picnic Area

Acorn Picnic Area from directly overhead

Acorn Picnic Area is a picnic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 57 m. Ransom Point stands 1,037 m to the southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Oak Picnic Area, a picnic site less than a tenth of a mile away.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: City of Martinez
Access: Yes

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directions Plan a drive around it

Coordinates37.98303, -122.09157

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Picnic sites

Parks

Hidden Valley Park: 0.0 mi
Hidden Lakes Park: 0.3 mi
Vista Montañas Park: 0.8 mi
Holiday Highlands Park: 0.9 mi
Shadowood Park: 1.2 mi

Gardens

Community Garden: 0.2 mi
Horticulture (OH): 1.6 mi
James Cooper Memorial Garden: 3.0 mi
Ruth Bancroft Garden: 5.1 mi
Communuity Garden: 5.5 mi

Nature reserves

Historic sites

Howard Ray: 1.3 mi
Site of the Murder of Dr. John Marsh: 1.6 mi
The United States Peace Corps Fountain: 1.6 mi
Strentzel: 1.8 mi
John Muir: 1.8 mi

Peaks

Cardiac Hill: 1.4 mi
Mount Wanda: 2.3 mi
Mount Helen: 2.5 mi
Dinosaur Hill: 3.3 mi
Old Martinez Summit: 3.4 mi

Artworks

United States Peace Corps Fountain: 1.6 mi
John Muir Statue: 1.9 mi
John Muir and Alhambra Creek Watershed: 1.9 mi
Martinez Beavers: 3.5 mi
Storyvanes: 5.5 mi

Attractions

US Army helicopter: 2.0 mi
Hurricane Harbor: 2.3 mi
Alhambra Creek Valley Staging Area: 2.5 mi
Labyrinth: 2.8 mi
Frog Hopper: 3.8 mi

Museums

Shell Alumni Museum: 2.9 mi
Concord Historical Museum: 3.1 mi
Galindo House and Gardens: 3.2 mi
Martinez Museum: 3.4 mi
Lindsay Wildlife Experience: 4.2 mi

Beaches21

Springs19

Sulfur Springs: 8.4 mi
Sulfur Spring: 8.6 mi
Soto Springs: 9.1 mi
Peach Tree Spring: 9.1 mi
Coffeeberry Spring: 10.1 mi

Ghost towns12

Eckley: 7.8 mi
Ambrose: 8.5 mi
Acelanus: 10.9 mi
Nortonville: 11.6 mi
Somersville: 12.5 mi

Cliffs6

Mitchell Rock: 9.3 mi
Turtle Rock: 11.3 mi
The Devil's Shelf: 13.1 mi
East Slope Badlands: 16.3 mi
Chab: 17.5 mi

Waterfalls3

Abrigo Falls: 4.2 mi
Green Valley Falls: 20.9 mi
Tehan Falls: 22.9 mi

Lighthouses2

Quarters A: 19.1 mi
Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 19.1 mi

Rest areas1

Rest Stop: 7.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Acorn Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Ransom Point	SE 125°	1,037 m	11.7 mi
Mount Olympia	ESE 119°	898 m	11.8 mi
Eagle Peak	SE 124°	722 m	10.1 mi
Rock 2	S 172°	617 m	11.7 mi
Vollmer Peak	SW 226°	581 m	9.9 mi
Las Trampas Peak	S 172°	557 m	10.4 mi
Vail Peak	S 169°	545 m	11.1 mi
Chaparral Peak	SW 225°	540 m	10.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:13	18:46	19:21
June solstice	05:47	19:56	20:35
September equinox	06:57	18:32	19:07
December solstice	07:22	16:12	16:53

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jan–Nov.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	50	54	57	61	66	71	73	74	72	66	56	50
Precip in	3.5	3.6	2.6	1.2	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.7	1.9	3.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Concord Wwtp, 1 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1065347751

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