Red Box Picnic Area
Red Box Picnic Area is a picnic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,408 m. Waterman Mountain stands 2,433 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Disappointment, a peak 0.8 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 8.1 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Angeles National Forest
How to reach it
- 8.1 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Disappointment: 0.8 mi
- Mount Lawlor: 0.9 mi
- Mount Deception: 0.9 mi
- San Gabriel Peak: 1.1 mi
- Mount Markham: 1.5 mi
- Ye Alpine Tavern: 2.2 mi
- Switzer Camp: 2.9 mi
- Mt Lowe Observatory Ruins: 3.2 mi
- Resevoir: 3.4 mi
- Echo Mountain House: 3.4 mi
- Mount Wilson Observatory Museum: 3.5 mi
- JPL Building 186 (Theodore von Kármán Museum and Auditorium): 5.8 mi
- Lizzies Trail Inn: 6.9 mi
- Richardson House: 6.9 mi
- Kidspace Children's Museum: 7.9 mi
- The Cobb Estate: 3.9 mi
- Rubio Canyon: 3.9 mi
- LA County Fire Open Space: 4.1 mi
- Andrea Wilson Triangle: 4.3 mi
- Casa Del Caballero: 4.4 mi
- Charles S. Farnsworth Park: 4.3 mi
- Mount Lowe Park: 4.4 mi
- Charles White Park: 5.6 mi
- Robert M McCurdy Nature Center: 5.6 mi
- Glenola Park: 6.1 mi
- Walsh Home (Beverly Hills 90210): 4.7 mi
- Dilan's Home (Beverly Hills 90210): 4.7 mi
- Wisteria Vine, Worlds Largest Blossoming Plant: 6.6 mi
- Sierra Madre Memorial Cannon: 7.2 mi
- Enchanted Railroad: 7.3 mi
- Altadena Community Garden: 5.0 mi
- Marcy's Vegetable Garden: 5.4 mi
- Marcy's Garden: 5.4 mi
- Bev's Vegetable Garden: 5.4 mi
- Food Garden: 5.5 mi
- Unincorporated Mural: 5.2 mi
- The Redoubt: 7.7 mi
- Williamson Gallery: 7.7 mi
- Student Gallery: 7.7 mi
- Our Community in the Foothills: 8.1 mi
- Switzer Picnic Area: 2.4 mi
- Hidden Springs: 4.3 mi
- Paul Little: 4.6 mi
- Charlton Flats Picnic Area: 5.7 mi
- Stonyvale Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 4.8 mi
- Silk Tassel Spring: 4.8 mi
- Doe Spring: 6.6 mi
- Baughman Spring: 6.7 mi
- Deer Spring: 9.2 mi
- Lower Switzer Falls: 2.8 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls: 2.9 mi
- Royal Falls: 3.4 mi
- Leontine Falls: 3.4 mi
- Millard Falls: 3.5 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 2.9 mi
- Spa Palace: 16.8 mi
- Llano Del Rio: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.1 miles of Red Box Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterman Mountain | ENE 61° | 2,433 m | 11.0 mi |
| Twin Peaks | ENE 69° | 2,365 m | 10.9 mi |
| Pacifico Mountain | NNE 25° | 2,165 m | 9.4 mi |
| Granite Mountain | NNE 14° | 1,998 m | 8.0 mi |
| Mount Gleason | NNW 333° | 1,990 m | 9.2 mi |
| Roundtop | NNE 17° | 1,908 m | 6.8 mi |
| Mount Hillyer | NE 39° | 1,881 m | 8.1 mi |
| Strawberry Peak | NNW 332° | 1,879 m | 2.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:09 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 46 | 49 | 52 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 75 | 70 | 62 | 53 | 46 |
| Precip in | 7.7 | 8.3 | 5.1 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Wilson CBS, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/740019667
Day trips start here
- Angeles National Forest · 5 mi
- La Cañada Flintridge · 6 mi
- Pasadena · 7 mi
- San Marino · 9 mi
- Arcadia · 10 mi
- Glendale · 10 mi
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