Founders Tree
Founders Tree is an attraction in California, at a modelled elevation of 48 m. Signal Peak stands 1,786 m to the east, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Dyerville Giant, a attraction 0.2 miles away.
Large California Redwood. Base trunk diameter 3.9m. Dedicated to the founders of the "Save-the-Redwoods League"
What the record says
- Height
- 105 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Baldy: 3.5 mi
- Grasshopper Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Clark Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Brushy Mountain: 6.4 mi
- Kerr Peak: 6.8 mi
- Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park: 9.2 mi
- Fireman's Park: 13.0 mi
- Honeydew Creek Day Use Area: 13.0 mi
- Eel River Rio Dell Fishing Access: 13.4 mi
- Memorial Park: 13.9 mi
- Laura Perrott Mahan, James P. Mahan: 0.4 mi
- Rockefeller Redwood Forest: 1.2 mi
- Eternal tree house: 3.7 mi
- Stephen Tyng Mather: 4.2 mi
- Childrens Forest Plaque: 6.1 mi
- Dyerville Giant: 0.2 mi
- Giant Trees: 0.6 mi
- Flat Iron Tree: 3.6 mi
- The Immortal Tree: 5.1 mi
- Shrine Drive Thru Tree: 6.3 mi
- Dyerville Overlook: 0.3 mi
- Blue Slide Day Use Area: 3.3 mi
- Big Trees Day Use Area: 3.6 mi
- Garden Club of America Grove Day Use Area: 4.4 mi
- Williams Grove Day Use Area: 5.6 mi
- Duckett Bluff: 0.6 mi
- Thompson Bluff: 3.0 mi
- Scotia Bluffs: 14.3 mi
- Kaluna Cliff: 21.9 mi
- Impassable at high tide - Lost Coast Trail: 22.4 mi
- Carl "A" Anderson Redwoods Natural Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Humboldt Redwoods State Park: 2.7 mi
- Bull Creek State Wilderness: 3.0 mi
- Bull Creek State Wilderness: 4.0 mi
- John B. Dewitt Redwoods State Natural Reserve: 16.1 mi
- Miller Spring: 17.5 mi
- Bonus Spring: 17.5 mi
- Telegraph Spring: 18.6 mi
- Alder Spring: 19.4 mi
- Pepperwood Spring: 21.2 mi
- Dyerville River Bar: 0.2 mi
- Black Sands Beach: 22.4 mi
- Mattole Beach: 23.2 mi
- Giant Wooden Cross: 20.8 mi
- Bureau of Land Management Lands: 22.7 mi
- Mario Machi: 24.0 mi
- Scotia Fisheries Museum: 12.7 mi
- Ferndale Museum: 23.7 mi
- Pepperwood Falls: 8.5 mi
- Cape Mendocino Light: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.8 miles of Founders Tree. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Peak | E 94° | 1,786 m | 19.5 mi |
| Tierney Peak | ENE 73° | 1,568 m | 19.8 mi |
| Buck Mountain | ENE 70° | 1,567 m | 18.7 mi |
| Red Mountain | E 84° | 1,462 m | 18.3 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ESE 105° | 1,443 m | 19.7 mi |
| Showers Mountain | NE 37° | 1,347 m | 19.7 mi |
| Charles Mountain | E 88° | 1,329 m | 16.4 mi |
| King Peak | SW 218° | 1,246 m | 17.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:52 | 19:28 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 20:09 | 20:50 |
| September equinox | 07:04 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:10 | 16:53 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 46 | 48 | 51 | 56 | 60 | 63 | 63 | 61 | 54 | 47 | 43 |
| Precip in | 8.6 | 8.9 | 6.6 | 4.9 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 6.4 | 10.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grizzly Creek SP, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/1795255391
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