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Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Year-round
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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
- 4.6 km · 2.9 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Beach group
- California beach trails › Central California beach trails
- Nearest town
- 1.3 km W of Twin Lakes (Santa Cruz County, California) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Year-round
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- California
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Regional route
- Route centre
- 36.9623, -122.0349
- Route start
- 36.9661, -122.0125
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 13997450
- Official info
- sccrtc.org/projects/trail/monterey-bay-sanctuary
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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Seascape Beach Route
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