Huntington Falls
Huntington Falls is a waterfall in California, at a recorded elevation of 105 m. Cardiac Hill stands 413 m to the northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Chinese Pavillion, a attraction 0.1 miles away.
The story
waterfall in Golden Gate Park
Dates from 1893.
Wikidata Q49091598, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1894-4-8
- Height
- 33.5 m
- Elevation
- 105 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Chinese Pavillion: 0.1 mi
- San Francisco Botanical Garden: 0.2 mi
- Japanese Tea Garden: 0.2 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.3 mi
- Spreckels Temple of Music: 0.3 mi
- Strawberry Hill: 0.1 mi
- Heidelberg Hill: 0.3 mi
- Grand View Hill: 0.9 mi
- Mount Sutro: 1.2 mi
- Larsen Peak: 1.3 mi
- Sweeny Observatory Ruins: 0.1 mi
- Pioneer Mother Monument: 0.1 mi
- Pioneer Log Cabin: 0.1 mi
- Trees from 13 Colonies: 0.2 mi
- T.G. Masaryk: 0.3 mi
- Zellenbach Garden of Perennials: 0.1 mi
- Southeast Asian Cloud Forest: 0.2 mi
- Moon Viewing Garden: 0.2 mi
- Andean Cloud Forest Garden: 0.2 mi
- Camellia Garden: 0.2 mi
- Street Whale: 0.2 mi
- Peace Lantern: 0.2 mi
- Rooted (In)Justice: 0.2 mi
- Buddha: 0.3 mi
- Naga: 0.3 mi
- Golden Gate Park: 0.3 mi
- Argonne Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Music Concourse: 0.4 mi
- 15th Avenue Steps: 0.6 mi
- Green Hairstreak Corridor - Aloha & Lomita: 0.7 mi
- California Academy of Sciences: 0.5 mi
- Counterculture Museum: 1.5 mi
- Gadar Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Legion of Honor: 1.8 mi
- San Francisco Fire Department Pioneer Museum: 1.9 mi
- Udo & Jürgen's place: 1.4 mi
- West Portal Playground Picnic Area: 1.9 mi
- Picnic Area: 2.0 mi
- Picnic Pod A: 2.6 mi
- Greg & Bev James Picnic Area: 3.8 mi
- Fort Funston: 3.7 mi
- Cypress Ridge Open Space: 6.5 mi
- Old Hilary's Botanical Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary: 8.4 mi
- Aramburu Island: 8.5 mi
- Mile Rock Beach: 2.2 mi
- Marshall's Beach: 2.3 mi
- East Beach: 2.9 mi
- Black Sands Beach: 4.2 mi
- Phillip Burton Memorial Beach: 4.5 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 0.3 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 4.6 mi
- Kent Falls: 9.8 mi
- Dawn Falls: 12.7 mi
- Laurel Dell Falls: 13.7 mi
- El Polín Spring: 1.9 mi
- El Polín Spring: 1.9 mi
- El Polín Spring: 2.1 mi
- Old Spring: 6.6 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 11.3 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 4.7 mi
- Vent 5: 10.9 mi
- Aramai Point: 11.3 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 11.5 mi
- Rock Fort: 16.1 mi
- Winehaven: 13.0 mi
- Lynn: 13.4 mi
- Russell City: 20.3 mi
- Stokes Landing: 21.6 mi
- Eckley: 24.6 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 4.4 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 6.7 mi
- Quarters A: 6.7 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 5.1 mi
- Temple: 23.2 mi
- Keyhole: 23.7 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 11.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of Huntington Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiac Hill | NW 322° | 413 m | 11.3 mi |
| San Bruno Mountain Summit | SSE 159° | 371 m | 6.0 mi |
| Richardson East | NNW 347° | 338.6 m | 5.8 mi |
| Peak 1041 | NNW 336° | 317.297 m | 6.5 mi |
| Mount Davidson | SSE 151° | 283 m | 2.4 mi |
| Slacker Hill | N 350° | 282 m | 4.7 mi |
| Hawk Hill | NNW 342° | 281 m | 4.3 mi |
| Mount Sutro | SE 128° | 278 m | 1.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:57 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
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 | 52 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 62 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Francisco Dwtn, 3 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Mar — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 30.2 | 30.4 | 20.0 | 9.5 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 23.1 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Redwood C A Hwy 1 Bridge A Muir Beach CA, 9 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/1350854547
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