Picnic site · California

Neptune

Neptune from directly overhead

Neptune is a picnic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Vollmer Peak stands 581 m to the north-northeast, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Croll's Garden, a picnic site 0.1 miles away.

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What to expect

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Coordinates37.76934, -122.27741

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Picnic sites

Croll's Garden: 0.1 mi
Seawind: 0.1 mi
Mariner's Lagoon: 0.1 mi
Sandcastle: 0.4 mi
City View: 0.5 mi

Nature reserves

Crab Cove Marine Reserve: 0.2 mi
Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline: 3.8 mi
Castle Canyon: 5.6 mi
Marjorie Saunders Park: 5.6 mi
Butters Canyon: 5.8 mi

Parks

Washington Park: 0.2 mi
Portola Triangle Park: 0.3 mi
Longfellow Park: 0.4 mi
Woodstock Park: 0.8 mi
Jean Sweeney Open Space Park: 0.9 mi

Museums

Historic sites

First Transcontinental Railroad: 0.4 mi
Harold "Hal" A. Ellis, Jr.: 1.7 mi
C. L. Dellums: 1.7 mi
Pony Express Ferry "Oakland": 1.7 mi
Jack London: 1.7 mi

Artworks

Calimar: 1.2 mi
Beken: 1.4 mi
Pan American Airways China Clipper: 1.4 mi
Hello Jack Mural: 1.7 mi
Jack London Wolf: 1.7 mi

Gardens

REAP Center: 1.2 mi
Alameda Point Community Garden: 1.5 mi
Chinese Garden: 2.0 mi
Oakland Museum of California Gardens: 2.2 mi
Parkway Cascade Garden: 2.6 mi

Attractions

S-3 Viking: 1.3 mi
F-14 Tomcat: 1.4 mi
F-4 Phantom: 1.4 mi
Alameda Spite House: 2.1 mi
Friday Nights @ OMCA with Off the Grid: 2.1 mi

Peaks

Shellmound: 2.6 mi
High Street Center: 2.8 mi
Pill Hill: 3.6 mi
Pine Top: 5.6 mi
Stony Hill: 6.3 mi

Beaches54

Encinal beach: 0.8 mi
Sandy Beach: 3.8 mi
Radio Beach: 4.4 mi
Toll Plaza Beach: 4.4 mi
Lake Temescal Beach: 6.0 mi

Springs26

El Polín Spring: 9.8 mi
El Polín Spring: 9.8 mi
El Polín Spring: 9.9 mi
Old Spring: 15.0 mi
Eugene Spring: 17.3 mi

Waterfalls13

Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 8.2 mi
Huntington Falls: 10.8 mi
Rainbow Falls: 11.0 mi
Abrigo Falls: 13.9 mi
Kent Falls: 18.3 mi

Cliffs9

Chab: 8.5 mi
East Slope Badlands: 11.6 mi
Yellow Bluff: 11.6 mi
The Devil's Shelf: 12.5 mi
Aramai Point: 16.6 mi

Ghost towns6

Lynn: 3.3 mi
Russell City: 11.2 mi
Stokes Landing: 14.0 mi
Winehaven: 14.7 mi
Eckley: 20.1 mi

Lighthouses3

Rest areas2

Crystal Springs Safety Roadside Rest Area: 16.6 mi
Rest Stop: 23.7 mi

Natural arches1

Bird Island Arch: 14.7 mi

Hot springs1

Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 20.9 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.5 miles of Neptune. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Vollmer Peak	NNE 21°	581 m	8.5 mi
Chaparral Peak	NNE 22°	540 m	8.1 mi
Round Top	NE 40°	531 m	7.3 mi
Grizzly Peak	NNE 17°	531 m	8.2 mi
Barberry Peak	NNE 27°	513 m	7.7 mi
Volcanic Peak	NE 35°	498 m	7.5 mi
Eureka Peak	NNE 25°	495 m	8.4 mi
Redwood Peak	ENE 59°	493 m	6.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:13	18:47	19:21
June solstice	05:48	19:56	20:35
September equinox	06:58	18:33	19:08
December solstice	07:22	16:13	16:54

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	53	55	57	59	61	63	64	65	66	64	58	52
Precip in	4.4	4.3	3.2	1.4	0.7	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.1	1.1	2.4	4.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oakland Museum, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1075446567

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