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Switzer Park Picnic Area

Switzer Park Picnic Area from directly overhead

Switzer Park Picnic Area is a picnic site in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,721 m. Butler Peak stands 2,571 m to the east, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Crest Park Picnic Area, a picnic site 0.7 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1721 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates34.23251, -117.18643
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Crest Summit: 1.3 mi
  • Mount Sorenson: 1.7 mi
  • Heaps Peak: 2.6 mi
  • Strawberry Peak: 2.7 mi
  • Red Rock Wall Point: 3.1 mi
Parks
  • Center Stage Field: 1.4 mi
  • Jerimiah McKay Memorial Statue Field: 1.4 mi
  • Lolipop Park: 1.4 mi
  • Village Playground: 1.4 mi
  • Penninsula Park: 2.4 mi
Springs
  • Dishpan Spring: 4.6 mi
  • Hot Spring: 5.4 mi
  • Muddy Spring: 6.9 mi
  • Barrel Spring: 7.3 mi
  • Warm Spring: 7.5 mi
Historic sites
  • Arrowhead (Landmark): 4.9 mi
  • Original McDonald's Restaurant: 9.6 mi
  • Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Memorial: 10.7 mi
  • Route 66 Rendezvous Cruisin' Hall of Fame: 10.7 mi
  • Conference Tree: 12.7 mi
Artworks
  • Nutcracker: 8.4 mi
  • COE Iron Sculpture: 8.5 mi
  • Jack Brown Sculpture: 8.5 mi
  • CSUSB Wild Song Coyote Statue: 8.6 mi
  • Ronald Reagan Mural on Berlin wall: 10.4 mi
Gardens: 46
  • Rose Garden: 11.9 mi
  • LaFourcade Community Garden: 11.9 mi
  • Brother Boniface Memorial Garden: 13.0 mi
  • Saint Francis Garden: 13.0 mi
  • Fire Prevention Garden: 13.1 mi
Museums: 35
Attractions: 25
Picnic sites: 23
  • Crest Park Picnic Area: 0.7 mi
  • Picnic Tables: 1.5 mi
  • Hamiltair Cove Picnic Tables: 2.2 mi
  • Arrowhead Ridge Picnic Area: 2.3 mi
  • Frontier Village: 2.4 mi
Nature reserves: 23
Waterfalls: 11
  • Aztec Falls: 4.7 mi
  • Hesperia Falls: 7.6 mi
  • Middleman Falls: 13.4 mi
  • Monkeyface Creek: 16.1 mi
  • Monkeyface Falls: 16.1 mi
Beaches: 9
  • Burnt Mill Beach: 1.3 mi
  • Lake Arrowhead Village Lakefront: 1.4 mi
  • Arrowhead Resort Beach: 1.4 mi
  • Lake Arrowhead Village Beach: 1.5 mi
  • Hamiltair community Beach: 1.9 mi
Cliffs: 4
  • shooting gallery: 5.1 mi
  • Keller Cliffs: 9.1 mi
  • Rock Climbing: 18.0 mi
  • Rock Climbing: 18.2 mi
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 3
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Switzer Park Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Butler PeakE 81°2,571 m10.3 mi
Delamar MountainENE 74°2,559.7 m14.3 mi
Crafts PeakE 82°2,546 m9.1 mi
Grays PeakE 81°2,414 m12.4 mi
Lookout PointE 99°2,413 m12.1 mi
Keller PeakESE 108°2,391 m8.2 mi
Slide PeakESE 103°2,391 m8.8 mi
GrandviewE 95°2,373 m15.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2819:01
June solstice05:3819:2720:05
September equinox06:3818:1418:47
December solstice06:5216:0516:44

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F373742485463696963534336
Precip in8.49.95.22.81.10.30.10.10.32.12.45.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Arrowhead, 1 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/358793205

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