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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J14°8°125
- F14°9°119
- M15°9°99
- A16°10°44
- M16°11°16
- J18°12°4
- J19°13°1
- A19°14°2
- S20°14°6
- O19°13°32
- N16°10°80
- D14°8°118
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Mapped length
- 2.7 km · 1.7 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- At Aptos (Santa Cruz County, California) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- California
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Local route
- Route centre
- 36.9907, -121.9059
- Route start
- 36.9806, -121.9060
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 14061159
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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