Pillar Pt / El Granda

Pillar Pt / El Granda is a meteorological station in California, United States. Pillar Pt / El Granda is situated nearby to the military installation Pillar Point Air Force Station, as well as near the scenic viewpoint Mavericks Beach.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pillar Point Air Force Station and Mavericks Beach.

Pillar Point Air Force Station

Military installation

Pillar Point Air Force Station, formerly Pillar Point Military Reservation, is a United States Space Force facility, situated on 48 acres atop the coastal promontory Pillar Point, near the community of Princeton-by-the-Sea, California. Pillar Point Air Force Station is situated 1,100 feet southeast of Pillar Pt / El Granda.

Mavericks Beach

Scenic viewpoint

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mavericks Beach is a surfing location in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is just outside of the breakwater of Pillar Point Harbor, near the coastal community of Princeton-by-the-Sea, just north of the town of Half Moon Bay. Mavericks Beach is situated 3,000 feet south of Pillar Pt / El Granda.

Eddie Andreini Sr. Airfield

Aerodrome

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.

Eddie Andreini Sr. Airfield, officially Half Moon Bay Airport, is a public airport in San Mateo County, six miles northwest of Half Moon Bay, California, United States. The airport is on the Pacific Coast, south of San Francisco.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Princeton and El Granada.

Princeton

Hamlet

Princeton-by-the-Sea is an unincorporated community on the coast of San Mateo County, California, United States. The ZIP code is 94019 and the community is served by area code 650. As of 2000, the population of the community was 297.

El Granada

Village

Photo: Vadim Manuylov, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Peninsula region of the San Francisco Bay Area lies immediately south of the City and County of San Francisco—reaching from its famous neighbor to the north into the high-tech region of Silicon Valley. El Granada is situated 1½ miles east of Pillar Pt / El Granda.

Moss Beach

Photo: Sallyrob, Public domain.

Moss Beach is a coastal census-designated place in San Mateo County, California, United States, with a year 2020 census population of 3,214. Located in Moss Beach are the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, a marine sanctuary; the Half Moon Bay Airport, the historic Moss Beach Distillery; and the Seal Cove Inn, a destination lodging property.

Pillar Pt / El Granda

Type: Meteorological station
Location: California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.5° or 37° 30′ north

Longitude

-122.5° or 122° 30′ west

Elevation

131 feet (40 metres)

ICAO airport code

K53Q

Open location code

849VGG22+22

GeoNames ID

6297583

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