Upper Switzer Falls
Upper Switzer Falls is a waterfall in California, at a modelled elevation of 893 m. Pacifico Mountain stands 2,165 m to the northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Upper Switzer Falls Grotto, a cliff less than a tenth of a mile away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 7.7 miles off.
The story
Series of 3 waterfalls in California.
Wikidata Q111449029, matched on coordinates and name (50 m apart).
What the record says
- Height
- 10 m
How to reach it
- 7.7 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Switzer Camp: 0.1 mi
- Ye Alpine Tavern: 3.4 mi
- Mt Lowe Observatory Ruins: 3.6 mi
- Sylias Hoyt Homestead: 3.6 mi
- Echo Mountain House: 3.8 mi
- Wella's Peak: 1.3 mi
- Hoyt Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Brown Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Josephine Peak: 1.9 mi
- Mount Deception: 2.4 mi
- Glenola Park: 3.7 mi
- Charles S. Farnsworth Park: 4.1 mi
- Olberz Park: 4.4 mi
- Mount Lowe Park: 4.5 mi
- Memorial Park: 4.5 mi
- JPL Building 186 (Theodore von Kármán Museum and Auditorium): 4.2 mi
- Mount Wilson Observatory Museum: 5.9 mi
- Kidspace Children's Museum: 7.1 mi
- The Gamble House: 7.3 mi
- Pasadena Museum of History: 7.5 mi
- Unincorporated Mural: 4.2 mi
- The Redoubt: 4.8 mi
- Our Community in the Foothills: 5.4 mi
- The Birds and Trees of Komitas: 5.7 mi
- Williamson Gallery: 6.4 mi
- Enchanted Railroad: 5.0 mi
- Dilan's Home (Beverly Hills 90210): 5.1 mi
- Walsh Home (Beverly Hills 90210): 5.1 mi
- Old Pasadena Historic District: 7.8 mi
- Colorado Street Bridge: 7.9 mi
- Altadena Community Garden: 3.9 mi
- Marcy's Garden: 4.2 mi
- Marcy's Vegetable Garden: 4.2 mi
- Food Garden: 4.2 mi
- Bev's Native Garden: 4.3 mi
- Upper Arroyo Seco: 2.3 mi
- Millard Canyon Open Space: 3.1 mi
- Gould Canyon / Lukens Connection: 3.4 mi
- Andrea Wilson Triangle: 3.5 mi
- Winery Canyon Open Space: 3.8 mi
- Switzer Picnic Area: 0.8 mi
- Paul Little: 2.1 mi
- Red Box Picnic Area: 2.9 mi
- Hidden Springs: 4.1 mi
- Stonyvale Picnic Area: 4.4 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 3.9 mi
- Silk Tassel Spring: 4.0 mi
- Baughman Spring: 7.2 mi
- Deer Spring: 8.3 mi
- Yerba Buena Spring: 8.8 mi
- Lower Switzer Falls: 0.2 mi
- Royal Falls: 0.8 mi
- Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 2.1 mi
- Millard Falls: 2.8 mi
- Leontine Falls: 4.1 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 0.0 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 22.3 mi
- Spa Palace: 15.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Upper Switzer Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacifico Mountain | NE 39° | 2,165 m | 11.0 mi |
| Granite Mountain | NNE 31° | 1,998 m | 9.2 mi |
| Mount Gleason | N 351° | 1,990 m | 8.3 mi |
| Roundtop | NE 37° | 1,908 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mount Hillyer | NE 52° | 1,881 m | 10.2 mi |
| Strawberry Peak | NE 48° | 1,879 m | 2.7 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | ESE 107° | 1,878 m | 3.4 mi |
| Messenger Peak | NNW 344° | 1,833 m | 8.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 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, 5 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–Apr — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 19.2 | 30.8 | 25.4 | 13.1 | 6.6 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 8.4 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Arroyo Seco NR Pasadena CA, 3 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/1342952709
Day trips start here
- La Cañada Flintridge · 4 mi
- Angeles National Forest · 5 mi
- Glendale · 7 mi
- Pasadena · 7 mi
- San Marino · 10 mi
- South Pasadena · 10 mi
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