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El Nido California Map

Explore El Nido, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of El Nido, California

How to Use This El Nido, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for El Nido, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to El Nido.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	El Nido
State	California (CA)
County	Merced County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	37.132376
Longitude	-120.498551
Population	331
Density	38.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	90278, 95317
Area Code	310, 424, 408, 669
County Seat	Merced
School District	El Nido Elementary School District

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About El Nido, California

El Nido is a locality in Merced County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 331. The population density is 38.8 people per km². El Nido is located at 37.1324°N, 120.4986°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 90278, 95317.

El Nido occupies a quiet, sun-bleached expanse of the Central Valley floor, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that seems to hold the heat of the afternoon long after the sun begins its descent. It lies 11.6 miles south of Merced, CA (from Merced, CA: bearing 183°T), and is situated 8.3 miles northeast of Santa Rita Park. The earth here is a deep, fertile loam, structured by the slow, seasonal pulse of the Chowchilla River, which traces a winding path through the surrounding fields. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Sierra Nevada provides a jagged backdrop to a landscape defined by the quiet industry of agriculture and the expansive, open air. During the cooler months, the proximity of the Merced National Wildlife Refuge draws a migration of waterfowl that fills the stillness with the sudden, rhythmic rush of wings, while the quiet waters of El Nido Reservoir remain a steady, reflective presence in the low-lying terrain.

History in El Nido is written in the furrows of the fields and the persistent, pragmatic labor of those who have long worked this soil. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, with orchards and rows of crops dictating the pace of life far more than the clocks on the wall. There is a particular clarity to the light here, a golden, heavy quality that settles over the farmhouses and dusty crossroads, softening the edges of the machinery and the barns. For those who live here, the identity of El Nido is found in the simple, repetitive cycles of the land, where the changing colors of the foliage and the shifting intensity of the heat provide the only markers of time. Life moves with an understated deliberate quality, anchored by the vast, quiet plains that reach out toward the horizon in every direction.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Merced National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.8 mi, 285° W · 7,642 acres
Grasslands Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 6.6 mi, 304° NW · 30k acres
Lens 360 (Arts Centre) — 11.8 mi, 004° N
San Luis National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.6 mi, 282° W · 36k acres
Los Banos Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.7 mi, 250° W
North Grasslands Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.1 mi, 243° SW
Big Rufus (Public Artwork) — 16.3 mi, 014° N
Carol Tomlinson-Keasey Memorial Quad (Monument) — 16.7 mi, 014° N
Great Valley Grasslands State Park (State Park) — 21.0 mi, 292° W
Volta Wildlife Area (National Conservation Area) — 22.4 mi, 272° W · 6,633 acres
Volta State Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 23.2 mi, 269° W
San Luis Reservoir State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 25.2 mi, 249° W
Double T Acres Ag Museum (Museum) — 26.0 mi, 303° NW
Abby Needham Plaque (Monument) — 26.9 mi, 117° SE
Turlock Community Theater (Theatre) — 31.3 mi, 324° NW
Pat Portwood (Monument) — 31.4 mi, 324° NW
Stan State Art Space (Gallery) — 31.6 mi, 323° NW
Christmas Tree Lane (Attraction) — 32.3 mi, 325° NW
University Art Gallery (Gallery) — 33.5 mi, 324° NW
Vista Point (Viewpoint) — 35.3 mi, 289° W
Panoche Hills (Nature Reserve) — 35.3 mi, 215° SW
Sierra Artists Gallery (Gallery) — 38.1 mi, 050° NE
Forestiere Underground Gardens (Attraction) — 40.8 mi, 123° SE
Sierra National Forest (National Forest) — 42.0 mi, 048° NE · 1.3M acres
The Northern Mariposa Country History Center (Museum) — 43.2 mi, 022° N
Stanislaus National Forest (National Forest) — 43.3 mi, 026° NE · 901k acres
McHenry Museum (Museum) — 44.5 mi, 322° NW
Brenden Modesto 18 (Cinema) — 44.7 mi, 322° NW
Yosemite Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 53.3 mi, 056° NE · 704k acres
Yosemite National Park (National Park) — 54.8 mi, 040° NE · 743k acres

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