Rock Monument
Rock Monument is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 187 m. Big Mountain stands 1,395 m to the east-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown, a attraction 0.2 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 187 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Rancheria Creek Park: 1.2 mi
- Main Street Park: 2.7 mi
- Minnie Provis Park: 4.5 mi
- Miners Bend Park: 4.7 mi
- Italian Society Park: 5.4 mi
- Sugarloaf Peak: 1.5 mi
- Bunker Hill: 2.3 mi
- Rocky Point: 2.4 mi
- Quartz Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Bisbee Peak: 3.9 mi
- Keystone Mine: 2.4 mi
- Massa Tunnel: 6.8 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 1: 6.8 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 2: 6.9 mi
- Flume Tressel Piers: 6.9 mi
- Amador Whitney Museum: 2.3 mi
- Monteverde Store Museum: 4.4 mi
- Knight Foundry: 4.5 mi
- Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 6.5 mi
- Chew Kee Store: 6.7 mi
- The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 0.2 mi
- Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 2.2 mi
- Sutter Gold Mine: 3.2 mi
- Kennedy Gold Mine: 6.5 mi
- Black Chasm Cavern: 12.4 mi
- Spanish Spring: 4.6 mi
- Marble Springs: 16.6 mi
- Canzatti Spring: 17.7 mi
- Liddicoat Spring: 18.5 mi
- Sugar Spring: 24.2 mi
- Michigan Bar: 11.0 mi
- Middle Bar: 11.5 mi
- Logtown: 13.2 mi
- Mormon Island: 23.0 mi
- Salmon Falls: 24.4 mi
- A Picnic Area: 14.9 mi
- B Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- C Picnic Area: 15.1 mi
- Picnic Area: 20.1 mi
- Mokelumne Beach: 20.3 mi
- Horse Shoe Hill Shore: 23.5 mi
- Moot Rock Beach: 23.6 mi
- Laurel Beach: 23.7 mi
- Pecker Falls: 18.4 mi
- Leete Falls: 23.9 mi
- Rock Creek: 24.8 mi
- Sherwood Demonstration Garden: 19.6 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 20.2 mi
- Pheonix Community Garden: 24.6 mi
- Mormon Island Wetlands Natural Preserve: 22.5 mi
- Natomas Station Wildlife Area: 22.6 mi
- Lake Natoma Bluffs: 24.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.6 miles of Rock Monument. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mountain | ENE 64° | 1,395 m | 21.1 mi |
| Bald Mountain | E 94° | 1,247 m | 22.3 mi |
| Sunday Ridge | NE 49° | 1,233 m | 22.4 mi |
| Mount Crossman | E 85° | 1,184 m | 17.5 mi |
| Little Butte | NE 47° | 1,142 m | 22.5 mi |
| Round Mountain | ENE 63° | 1,063 m | 14.5 mi |
| Little Mountain | ENE 58° | 1,029 m | 19.8 mi |
| Cement Hill | ENE 58° | 1,018 m | 15.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:52 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 16:05 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 50 | 52 | 56 | 63 | 71 | 78 | 77 | 73 | 65 | 54 | 47 |
| Precip in | 6.1 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutter Hill CDF, 5 mi away.
- blue oak5 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk3 obs
- Ithuriel's Spear3 obs
- ione manzanita3 obs
- Pacific chorus frog2 obs
- Western Fence Lizard2 obs
- Gray Fox2 obs
- Western Honey Bee2 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/358827180
Day trips start here
- Placerville · 20 mi
- El Dorado Hills · 21 mi
- Folsom · 24 mi
- Coloma · 25 mi
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