Mother Lode Fairgrounds
Mother Lode Fairgrounds is a park in California, at a modelled elevation of 515 m. Duckwall Mountain stands 1,775 m to the east, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Woods Creek Rotary Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off.
How to reach it
- 17.5 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Bald Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Union Hill: 2.9 mi
- Kennebec Hill: 3.5 mi
- Bell Hill: 3.9 mi
- Quartz Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Woods Creek Rotary Park: 0.3 mi
- Foster's Prospectors Park: 0.4 mi
- Coffils Park: 0.6 mi
- Coffill Park: 0.6 mi
- Courthouse Square: 0.6 mi
- Gold Spring: 5.0 mi
- Vine Spring: 5.8 mi
- Lord Spring: 6.1 mi
- Alder Spring: 10.7 mi
- Ruby Hill Spring: 12.6 mi
- Tuolumne County Museum: 0.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial Military Museum: 0.7 mi
- Jamestown Museum: 2.5 mi
- Columbia Museum: 4.0 mi
- Tuolumne City Memorial Museum: 8.5 mi
- Springfield Armory/School/Store: 3.3 mi
- Grumman TS-2A Tracker: 3.9 mi
- Mark Twain Bret Harte Trail - Chinese Camp: 7.7 mi
- Vallecito Western Mine: 10.0 mi
- Mark Twain Monument: 10.7 mi
- Jamestown Branch Jail: 2.5 mi
- Moaning Caverns Adventure Park: 7.6 mi
- Heisler #2 Steam Engine: 8.4 mi
- Murphys Pokey: 11.8 mi
- Mercer Caverns: 12.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Lupine Day Use Area: 6.5 mi
- Heron Point Day Use: 6.9 mi
- Moccasin Point: 10.7 mi
- Remote Camp: 17.0 mi
- The Grotto: 5.4 mi
- Jailhouse Rock: 10.4 mi
- Negro Jack Point: 12.0 mi
- McKays Point: 19.1 mi
- Lovers Leap: 20.2 mi
- French Flat: 4.5 mi
- Carson Hill: 7.3 mi
- Chinese Camp: 7.8 mi
- Horseshoe Bend: 22.5 mi
- National Recreation Area: 5.9 mi
- Red Hills: 9.0 mi
- Calaveras South Grove Natural Preserve: 20.3 mi
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park: 20.9 mi
- Dunn Court Beach: 13.4 mi
- Pine Mountain Lake Marina Beach: 13.6 mi
- Lake Lodge Beach: 14.0 mi
- Dedication Garden: 17.0 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 21.0 mi
- Jawbone Falls: 22.9 mi
- Diana Falls: 24.9 mi
- Natural Bridge: 7.1 mi
- Scoutmaster Grotto: 22.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.3 miles of Mother Lode Fairgrounds. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duckwall Mountain | E 92° | 1,775 m | 14.7 mi |
| Marble Mountain | ENE 77° | 1,665 m | 14.6 mi |
| Mount Lewis | ENE 72° | 1,661 m | 13.0 mi |
| Elizabeth Peak | NE 52° | 1,486 m | 9.7 mi |
| Mount Provo | ENE 77° | 1,479 m | 10.3 mi |
| Mount Knight | NNE 32° | 1,458 m | 15.5 mi |
| Murphy Peak | E 88° | 1,365 m | 12.5 mi |
| Doud Hill | N 10° | 1,264 m | 16.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:49 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:25 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:05 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 46 | 50 | 53 | 61 | 68 | 75 | 74 | 69 | 60 | 50 | 44 |
| Precip in | 6.3 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 5.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sonora, under a mile away.
- Toyon35 obs
- western jack-o'-lantern31 obs
- California Scrub-Jay30 obs
- White Globe Lily29 obs
- California Gall Wasp17 obs
- Wild Turkey16 obs
- greater periwinkle15 obs
- Whiteleaf Manzanita15 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 way/269604553
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