Huntington Lake Game Refuge
Huntington Lake Game Refuge is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 2,120 m. Mount Shinn stands 3,336 m to the east, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Dowville Picnic Site, a picnic site 0.3 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2120 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sunset Point: 1.2 mi
- Kerckhoff Dome: 1.5 mi
- Black Point: 1.8 mi
- Jump Off Point: 3.2 mi
- Tamarack Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Dowville Picnic Site: 0.3 mi
- Eagle Point Day Use Area: 7.8 mi
- Mile High Vista Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Dinkey Fisherman Picnic Site: 12.1 mi
- Mono Creek Picnic Site: 15.5 mi
- Line Creek Falls: 2.2 mi
- Rancheria Falls: 5.2 mi
- Stevenson Creek Falls: 8.2 mi
- Whisky Falls: 12.3 mi
- Camino Falls: 16.7 mi
- John S. Eastwood Park: 4.1 mi
- Fishing Club: 8.5 mi
- Shaver Lake Community Park: 10.3 mi
- North Fork Recreation Area Memorial Park: 14.9 mi
- Courtright Intrusive Contact Zone Geological Area: 17.9 mi
- Little Eden: 13.1 mi
- Reed Pools: 13.3 mi
- Old Pedro: 13.3 mi
- Iodone Springs: 13.4 mi
- Cole Spring: 17.3 mi
- Grand Bluff: 11.3 mi
- South Fork Bluffs: 14.2 mi
- Big Sandy Bluff: 17.0 mi
- San Joaquin Butte: 20.7 mi
- Vermilion Cliffs: 20.9 mi
- 786 Squadron Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Qualls Camp: 10.7 mi
- Whites Cabin: 12.4 mi
- Exact Center of California: 13.0 mi
- China Camp: 13.6 mi
- Mono Hot Springs Resort: 13.4 mi
- Willow Creek Trail: 20.2 mi
- John Muir Rock: 22.2 mi
- Bull Buck Tree: 23.7 mi
- Big Ed: 23.9 mi
- Kinsman Flat Wildlife Area: 7.3 mi
- Whisky Snowmobile Area: 10.7 mi
- Big Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 23.8 mi
- Nelder Grove Historical Area: 24.1 mi
- Museum of the Sierra: 8.9 mi
- Sierra-Mono Indian Museum: 15.2 mi
- Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park: 23.7 mi
- Iva Bell Hot Springs: 23.7 mi
- Iva Bell Hot Springs: 23.7 mi
- Iva Bell Hot Springs: 23.8 mi
- Arch Rock: 14.9 mi
- Oakhurst Mural: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.0 miles of Huntington Lake Game Refuge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Shinn | E 94° | 3,336 m | 17.0 mi |
| Mount Givens | ENE 71° | 3,245 m | 10.0 mi |
| Mount Ian Campbell | E 79° | 3,238 m | 11.6 mi |
| Three Sisters | SE 124° | 3,215 m | 11.1 mi |
| Brown Peak | SE 128° | 3,145 m | 11.9 mi |
| Kings Castle | ENE 76° | 3,144 m | 12.3 mi |
| Kaiser Peak | NNE 28° | 3,142 m | 4.9 mi |
| Dogtooth Peak | ESE 117° | 3,126 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:35 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:42 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:21 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:08 | 16:03 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 62 | 56 | 47 | 40 | 35 |
| Precip in | 8.5 | 7.8 | 6.8 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 3.9 | 6.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Huntington Lake, under a mile away.
- Snowplant27 obs
- pink-flowered stickseed26 obs
- spreading dogbane22 obs
- bush chinquapin19 obs
- thimbleberry17 obs
- wax currant17 obs
- woodland pinedrops16 obs
- Sierra Gooseberry16 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358798234
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