Holmes Point
Holmes Point is a cliff in Wyoming, at a recorded elevation of 2,358 m. Eagle Peak stands 3,460 m to the southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Steamboat Point Picnic Area, a picnic site 0.3 miles away. Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway passes 15 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2358 m
How to reach it
- 14.8 mi off the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Steamboat Springs: 0.5 mi
- Sizzling Basin: 9.0 mi
- Mud Caldron: 9.1 mi
- Dragon's Mouth Spring: 9.2 mi
- Turbulent Pool: 9.3 mi
- Lake Butte: 2.3 mi
- Sulphur Hills: 4.3 mi
- Stonetop Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Mount Chittenden: 6.1 mi
- Elephant Back Mountain: 7.5 mi
- Steamboat Point Picnic Area: 0.3 mi
- Sedge Bay Picnic Area: 1.5 mi
- Fishing Bridge Picnic Area: 4.5 mi
- Lake Village Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
- Gull Point Picnic Area: 6.1 mi
- Churning Caldron: 9.0 mi
- Sour Lake: 9.0 mi
- Grizzly Fumarole: 9.1 mi
- King Geyser: 15.9 mi
- Lakeside Spring: 15.9 mi
- LeHardys Rapids: 6.5 mi
- Natural Bridge: 8.0 mi
- Mud Volcano Area: 9.1 mi
- King Geyser viewing point: 15.9 mi
- West Thumb Geyser Basin: 16.0 mi
- Steamboat Point: 0.5 mi
- Storm Point: 2.1 mi
- Elk Point: 4.5 mi
- Gull Point: 6.0 mi
- Sand Point: 6.6 mi
- Silver Cord Cascade: 15.1 mi
- Upper Yellowstone Falls: 15.8 mi
- Lower Yellowstone Falls: 15.9 mi
- Crystal Falls: 16.0 mi
- Virginia Cascades: 21.2 mi
- Frank Island Bay North: 8.5 mi
- Frank Island Bay South: 8.9 mi
- De Lacy Park: 21.5 mi
- Basin Creek: 24.5 mi
- Basin Creek: 24.9 mi
- Norris Geyser Basin Museum: 24.0 mi
- Museum of the National Park Ranger: 24.1 mi
- Yellowstone National Park: 11.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.2 miles of Holmes Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle Peak | SE 139° | 3,460 m | 20.0 mi |
| Table Mountain | SE 145° | 3,365 m | 20.4 mi |
| Mount Humphreys | SE 140° | 3,358.5 m | 18.0 mi |
| Mount Schurz | SE 141° | 3,356 m | 17.4 mi |
| Pollux Peak | ENE 63° | 3,348 m | 20.1 mi |
| Notch Mountain | ENE 70° | 3,332 m | 18.8 mi |
| Atkins Peak | SE 135° | 3,331 m | 15.8 mi |
| Plenty Coups Peak | SE 132° | 3,330 m | 15.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 18:55 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 20:26 | 21:10 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:42 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:55 | 15:56 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jul–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 13 | 15 | 23 | 30 | 40 | 49 | 57 | 56 | 48 | 36 | 24 | 15 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lake Yellowstone, 5 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Nov and Mar; busiest: Jul.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356501747
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- Yellowstone National Park · 14 mi
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