Cliff · California
Limestone Point
Limestone Point is a cliff in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,687 m. Mount Fillmore stands 2,344 m to the south-southeast, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Volcano, a peak 0.1 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1687 m
How to reach it
Coordinates39.85628, -120.89329
Named places within 25 miles
Peaks
- Little Volcano: 0.1 mi
- Turn Table: 1.4 mi
- Crescent Hill: 2.3 mi
- Finger Board: 2.8 mi
- East Claremont: 2.8 mi
Parks: 15
- Central Plumas Recreation & Parks District: 5.6 mi
- Pioneer Park: 5.6 mi
- Dame Shirley: 6.3 mi
- Gansner Park: 6.9 mi
- Mount Hough State Game Refuge: 11.4 mi
Museums: 7
- Plumas County Museum: 6.2 mi
- Plumas County Museum: 6.2 mi
- Plumas-Eureka State Park Museum: 12.5 mi
- Frank C. Reilly Museum: 12.9 mi
- Downieville Museum: 20.7 mi
Picnic sites: 7
- Jackson Creek Picnic Ground: 11.3 mi
- Sandy Point Day Use: 15.9 mi
- Tin Cup Diggins Picnic Area: 20.8 mi
- Sand Pond Picnic Site: 21.9 mi
- Convict Flat Picnic Site: 23.2 mi
Springs: 6
- Cinder Spring: 21.4 mi
- Rocky Point Spring: 22.9 mi
- Section 15 Spring: 22.9 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 22.9 mi
- Switchback spring: 23.7 mi
Historic sites: 5
- Mammoth Mill: 12.0 mi
- Downie Chapter 1249: 20.7 mi
- Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout: 22.4 mi
- Vehicle: 23.3 mi
- Sierra County Chinese Laborer Memorial: 24.3 mi
Waterfalls: 5
- Indian Falls: 14.6 mi
- Fern Falls: 15.6 mi
- Frazier Falls: 16.9 mi
- Loves Falls: 24.4 mi
- Hackmans Falls: 25.0 mi
Cliffs: 4
- Rocky Point: 4.1 mi
- Marble Cone: 13.8 mi
- Ruby Bluff: 23.9 mi
- Elephant Butte: 24.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
- Massack Rest Area: 5.6 mi
Nature reserves: 1
- Bucks Lake Wilderness: 17.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.4 miles of Limestone Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Fillmore | SSE 166° | 2,344 m | 9.0 mi |
| Tower Rock | NNE 33° | 2,342 m | 11.4 mi |
| Grizzly Peak | NNE 24° | 2,325 m | 12.1 mi |
| Pilot Peak | SSE 165° | 2,271 m | 5.2 mi |
| Mount Washington | SE 134° | 2,236 m | 13.2 mi |
| Taylor Rock | NNE 22° | 2,220 m | 10.7 mi |
| Blue Nose Mountain | SE 142° | 2,217 m | 7.1 mi |
| Gibraltar | SSE 148° | 2,210 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:55 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:00 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 38 | 43 | 47 | 55 | 62 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 51 | 40 | 34 |
| Precip in | 7.6 | 7.6 | 6.7 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 4.1 | 7.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Quincy, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358798506
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