Mitchell Monument
Mitchell Monument is a park in Oregon, at a recorded elevation of 1,655 m. Gearhart Mountain stands 2,551 m to the north, 4.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Mitchell Recreation Area, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Oregon Outback passes 22 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1655 m
How to reach it
- 21.7 mi off the Oregon Outback, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Haystack Rock: 2.7 mi
- Palisade Rocks: 3.4 mi
- The Dome: 3.4 mi
- Lookout Rock: 3.7 mi
- Round Butte: 4.4 mi
- Salt Spring: 0.1 mi
- Whisky Spring: 1.7 mi
- Mitten Spring: 2.4 mi
- Lookout Spring: 3.8 mi
- Boulder Spring: 4.5 mi
- Mitchell Recreation Area: 0.0 mi
- Paddock Camp: 6.5 mi
- Foster Field: 15.5 mi
- Booth State Park: 22.0 mi
- Cottonwood Reservoir County Park: 22.0 mi
- Dead Horse Rim: 7.8 mi
- Coleman Rim: 10.2 mi
- Gerber Rim: 16.6 mi
- Cub Cliff: 18.1 mi
- Barnes Rim: 18.1 mi
- Japanese Balloon Bomb Memorial: 0.0 mi
- Merritt Creek Trestle: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Mitchell Monument. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gearhart Mountain | N 349° | 2,551 m | 4.5 mi |
| 8295 | N 359° | 2,528 m | 5.3 mi |
| Peak 8272 | N 352° | 2,521 m | 4.8 mi |
| 8134 | NNE 25° | 2,476 m | 8.8 mi |
| Dead Horse Rim 8064 | NNE 26° | 2,458 m | 9.1 mi |
| Cougar Peak | SE 126° | 2,413.711 m | 14.6 mi |
| Grizzly Peak | SE 137° | 2,367.686 m | 16.7 mi |
| Slide Mountain | NNE 22° | 2,366 m | 18.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:39 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:27 | 20:02 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 15:49 | 16:34 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 35 | 39 | 43 | 52 | 59 | 68 | 65 | 58 | 47 | 37 | 31 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 2.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — BLY 4 SE, 21 mi away.
- Washington lily3 obs
- Redstem Springbeauty2 obs
- Pacific chorus frog1 obs
- spreading dogbane1 obs
- Western Ponderosa Pine1 obs
- woodland pinedrops1 obs
- California incense-cedar1 obs
- quaking aspen1 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/357284738
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