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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
- J11°7°195
- F11°7°180
- M12°7°144
- A13°8°69
- M15°10°25
- J18°12°7
- J20°14°1
- A20°14°2
- S19°14°7
- O17°12°52
- N14°9°134
- D11°7°199
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
- 4.0 km · 2.5 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 3.9 km NE of Bonny Doon (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
- 37.0747, -122.1179
- Route start
- 37.0701, -122.1244
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 14012026
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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