Rio Tinto Borax Mine Visitor Center
Rio Tinto Borax Mine Visitor Center is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 749 m. Red Mountain stands 1,580 m to the north-northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Boron Rest Area, a rest area 2.4 miles away. 60 named places lie within 25 miles, 24 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Rio Tinto Borax Mine
How to reach it
60 named places within 25 miles
- Saddleback Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Mound: 4.5 mi
- Haystack Butte: 12.1 mi
- Castle Butte: 12.2 mi
- Galileo Hill: 13.2 mi
- Pioneer Park: 3.0 mi
- Boron Park: 3.1 mi
- North Edwards Park: 7.9 mi
- H Park: 11.4 mi
- Borax Bill Park: 12.9 mi
- Desert Tortoise Habitat Area: 16.1 mi
- Desert Tortoise Preserve: 16.9 mi
- Desert Tortoise Preserve: 17.6 mi
- Desert Tortoise Natural Area: 21.2 mi
- Fremont Valley Ecological Reserve: 21.3 mi
- Boron Aerospace Museum: 2.9 mi
- Twenty Mule Team Museum: 3.0 mi
- Air Force Flight Test Center Museum: 15.5 mi
- Century Circle: 20.4 mi
- The Rand Desert Museum: 23.4 mi
- Fremont: 12.8 mi
- X1 Loading Pit: 14.2 mi
- Husky Monument: 24.5 mi
- Boron Rest Area: 2.4 mi
- Boron Rest Area: 2.4 mi
- B-52: 11.4 mi
- Atolia: 20.2 mi
- Bird Spring: 23.9 mi
- Saddleback Butte picnic area: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rio Tinto Borax Mine Visitor Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Mountain | NNE 15° | 1,580 m | 22.8 mi |
| Government Peak | N 2° | 1,419 m | 22.2 mi |
| Fremont Peak | NE 49° | 1,362 m | 17.4 mi |
| Sidney Peak | N 358° | 1,309 m | 20.4 mi |
| Silver Peak | SSE 158° | 1,220 m | 21.7 mi |
| Red Buttes | SSE 150° | 1,037 m | 16.7 mi |
| Haystack Butte | SSE 161° | 1,030 m | 12.1 mi |
| Adobe Mountain | S 178° | 1,018 m | 22.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:29 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:31 | 20:09 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:16 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 16:04 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 49 | 54 | 61 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 84 | 77 | 66 | 54 | 46 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Randsburg, 24 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/4364229578
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