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Tracking the Intruders Bronze Monument

Tracking the Intruders Bronze Monument from directly overhead

Tracking the Intruders Bronze Monument is a historic site in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 1,273 m. Sacajawea Peak stands 3,000 m to the south-southwest, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Rolling Thunder and Toma Bronze Monument, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Hells Canyon runs past it.

What the record says

Inscription
by J. Shirly Bothum

How to reach it

Coordinates45.35569, -117.23006

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Joseph Knob: 4.5 mi
  • Hurricane Point: 4.9 mi
  • Point Joseph: 5.0 mi
  • Chief Joseph Mountain: 5.1 mi
  • Dug Peak: 5.5 mi
Springs: 13
  • Miner Spring: 8.7 mi
  • Cold Spring: 9.0 mi
  • Huckleberry Spring: 13.7 mi
  • Standley Spring: 16.9 mi
  • Bearwallow Spring: 18.5 mi
Parks: 7
  • Wallowa Lake County Park Public Beach: 1.6 mi
  • Wallowa Lake State Park: 5.0 mi
  • Enterprise City Park: 5.3 mi
  • Warde Park: 5.4 mi
  • Chief Joseph Monument: 5.6 mi
Waterfalls: 6
  • BC Creek Falls: 6.0 mi
  • Wallowa Falls: 6.1 mi
  • Slick Rock Creek Falls: 6.9 mi
  • Hunter Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Ice Falls: 8.8 mi
Museums: 3
  • Wallowology Natural History Discovery Center: 0.1 mi
  • Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center: 0.2 mi
  • Wallowa County Museum: 0.4 mi
Attractions: 3
  • Railrider Cycling Joseph Branch: 0.3 mi
  • Riverside Day Use Area: 5.2 mi
  • Little Alps Day Use Area: 6.1 mi
Cliffs: 3
Artworks: 2
  • All Around Cowboy: 0.2 mi
  • Eagle: 5.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Pole Bridge Picknick Area: 9.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Tracking the Intruders Bronze Monument. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sacajawea PeakSSW3,000 m8.2 mi
Hurwal DivideSSW2,980 m6.9 mi
Sacajawea-Matterhorn RidgeSSW2,979 m8.8 mi
MatterhornSSW2,975 m9.5 mi
Aneroid MountainSSE2,959 m10.9 mi
Twin PeaksWSW2,950 m6.6 mi
Point JosephSSW2,933 m5.0 mi
Petes PointS2,932 m11.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2319:02
June solstice05:0219:5620:41
September equinox06:3718:0918:48
December solstice07:2615:2016:09

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272936415056646557453426
Precip in1.31.11.41.92.61.90.90.71.11.41.41.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Joseph, under a mile away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/5922526292

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