Nelder Grove Historical Area
Nelder Grove Historical Area is a nature reserve in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,615 m. Gale Peak stands 3,258 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Ed, a attraction 0.2 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 25 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- United States Forest Service
How to reach it
- 24.7 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 26 mi
- View on Tenaya Lake · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Speckerman Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Sivels Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Fresno Dome: 3.4 mi
- Greys Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Goat Meadow Hill: 4.7 mi
- Corlieu Falls: 2.1 mi
- Red Rock Falls: 2.6 mi
- Angel Falls: 6.3 mi
- Lower Chilnualna Falls: 8.8 mi
- Camino Falls: 9.4 mi
- Thornberry Museum: 3.5 mi
- Mariposa Grove Museum: 5.9 mi
- Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park: 7.4 mi
- Yosemite History Center: 8.4 mi
- Sierra-Mono Indian Museum: 14.6 mi
- Oakhurst Community Park: 7.7 mi
- Wassama Roundhouse State Historic Park: 8.2 mi
- Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park: 8.3 mi
- North Fork Recreation Area Memorial Park: 14.2 mi
- Indian Lakes Park: 15.7 mi
- Cold Spring: 9.0 mi
- Arnold Spring: 15.4 mi
- Specimen Springs: 17.5 mi
- Barrel Spring: 17.9 mi
- Big Spring: 18.3 mi
- Gold Rush BBQ: 4.0 mi
- The Falls Picnic Site: 6.9 mi
- Lakeside Day Use Area: 8.5 mi
- Pine Point Day Use: 8.9 mi
- Rocky Point Picnic Ground: 9.1 mi
- Big Ed: 0.2 mi
- Bull Buck Tree: 0.6 mi
- Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Historical Railroad: 3.5 mi
- Grizzly Giant: 5.2 mi
- Mariposa Welcome Plaza: 5.8 mi
- South Fork Bluffs: 12.3 mi
- The Fissures: 19.6 mi
- Profile Cliff: 19.7 mi
- Panorama Cliff: 20.1 mi
- Rockslides: 20.8 mi
- Whites Cabin: 12.9 mi
- Mt Buckingham School (historic): 14.8 mi
- Exact Center of California: 19.7 mi
- September 11, 2001 Memorial: 21.0 mi
- Foster Curry Cabin: 21.3 mi
- Whisky Snowmobile Area: 14.4 mi
- Kinsman Flat Wildlife Area: 20.0 mi
- San Joaquin Experimental Range: 23.6 mi
- Oakhurst Mural: 7.7 mi
- Arch Rock: 17.2 mi
- Agua Fria: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.0 miles of Nelder Grove Historical Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gale Peak | NE 49° | 3,258 m | 14.6 mi |
| Sing Peak | NE 52° | 3,201 m | 14.0 mi |
| Madera Peak | ENE 57° | 3,197 m | 14.0 mi |
| Redtop | NE 51° | 3,039 m | 13.0 mi |
| Moraine Mountain | NNE 33° | 2,979 m | 13.4 mi |
| Mount Bruce | NNE 24° | 2,964 m | 12.7 mi |
| Buena Vista Peak | NNE 19° | 2,956 m | 12.1 mi |
| Iron Mountain | NE 56° | 2,794 m | 6.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:36 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:44 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:22 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 16:04 | 16:45 |
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 | 36 | 36 | 39 | 43 | 50 | 59 | 65 | 65 | 60 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 7.6 | 6.7 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 5.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SO Entrance Yosemite NP, 6 mi away.
- Snowplant42 obs
- giant sequoia36 obs
- Pacific Dogwood19 obs
- western azalea17 obs
- Natural Black Morel13 obs
- Spring King Bolete12 obs
- Western Rattlesnake Plantain11 obs
- Solomon's plume11 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/489437298
Day trips start here
- Sierra Nevada · 21 mi
- Yosemite National Park · 21 mi
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