West Point State Historic Landmark
West Point State Historic Landmark is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 839 m. Peddler Hill stands 2,175 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Sandy Gulch Field Baseball Park, a park 1.3 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 839 m
How to reach it
- 13.8 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Liberty Vista Point · 21 mi
- Hell's Kitchen Vista Point · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sandy Gulch Field Baseball Park: 1.3 mi
- Sandy Gulch State Historic Landmark: 1.4 mi
- Soldiers Memorial Park: 6.3 mi
- Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park: 6.4 mi
- Pine Grove Park: 7.1 mi
- Mount Crossman: 4.5 mi
- Bald Mountain: 4.8 mi
- Fort Mountain: 4.9 mi
- Mount Zion: 6.7 mi
- Devils Nose: 7.3 mi
- Canzatti Spring: 2.9 mi
- Sugar Spring: 7.6 mi
- Liddicoat Spring: 9.5 mi
- Marble Springs: 10.6 mi
- San Antonio Spring: 13.9 mi
- Chaw'se Regional Indian Museum: 6.4 mi
- Amador County Model Railroad Museum: 6.5 mi
- Sierra Nevada Logging Museum: 13.6 mi
- Amador County Museum: 13.7 mi
- Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 13.8 mi
- Black Chasm Cavern: 5.8 mi
- California Caverns: 13.7 mi
- Kennedy Gold Mine: 13.9 mi
- Leoni House: 14.6 mi
- Campfire Center: 14.6 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 3: 13.6 mi
- Flume Tressel Piers: 13.7 mi
- Massa Tunnel: 13.7 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 2: 13.7 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 1: 13.7 mi
- Middle Bar: 14.0 mi
- Logtown: 23.8 mi
- McKays Point: 16.6 mi
- Calaveras Dome: 17.4 mi
- Oak Leaf: 16.8 mi
- Shot Rock Vista Picnic Area: 23.7 mi
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park: 17.0 mi
- Calaveras South Grove Natural Preserve: 18.8 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 16.4 mi
- Natural Bridge: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.5 miles of West Point State Historic Landmark. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peddler Hill | NE 49° | 2,175 m | 18.9 mi |
| Shovel Grave | ENE 72° | 2,036 m | 18.7 mi |
| Blue Mountain | ESE 114° | 1,835 m | 9.7 mi |
| Armstrong Hill | NE 38° | 1,735 m | 12.5 mi |
| Repeater Hill | ESE 121° | 1,672 m | 19.5 mi |
| Buck Mountain | ESE 102° | 1,566 m | 8.6 mi |
| Devils Nose | NE 53° | 1,445 m | 7.3 mi |
| Big Mountain | N 6° | 1,395 m | 12.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:04 | 16:46 |
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 | 38 | 38 | 40 | 45 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 67 | 62 | 53 | 43 | 37 |
| Precip in | 10.6 | 9.8 | 8.5 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.9 | 5.2 | 9.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Calaveras BIG Trees, 15 mi away.
- great mullein6 obs
- Pacific madrone5 obs
- Douglas-fir4 obs
- California black oak4 obs
- Pacific poison oak4 obs
- California buckeye4 obs
- Toyon4 obs
- cardinal catchfly4 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/358832920
Day trips start here
- Placerville · 27 mi
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