Angora Peak
Angora Peak rises to 2,618 m in California. Freel Peak stands 3,305 m to the east, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Rock, a peak 0.2 miles away. Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive passes 9.5 miles off.
The story
Angora Peak is a summit in the Sierra Nevada south of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California. The summit marks a point on the eastern boundary of the Desolation Wilderness and is in the Eldorado National Forest. The peak is located south of Fallen Leaf Lake and northwest of the Angora Lakes.
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Wikidata Q4763852, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2618 m
How to reach it
- 9.5 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 19.7 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
- 27.0 mi off the Mount Rose Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Cave Rock · 14 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 15 mi
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 25 mi
- Scenic lookout · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Indian Rock: 0.2 mi
- Echo Peak: 0.7 mi
- Flagpole Peak: 1.7 mi
- Keiths Dome: 1.9 mi
- Talking Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Fallen Leaf Recreation Center: 0.9 mi
- Tahoe Paradise Park: 2.6 mi
- Lake Valley State Recreation Area: 3.1 mi
- Bonanza Community Park: 4.7 mi
- Thomas F Regan Memorial City Beach: 7.1 mi
- Glen Alpine Spring: 1.4 mi
- Folsom Spring: 10.4 mi
- Granite Spring: 15.5 mi
- Tragedy Spring: 16.2 mi
- Soda Spring: 16.9 mi
- Kiva Beach: 5.2 mi
- Pope Beach: 5.4 mi
- El Dorado Beach: 7.9 mi
- Lakeside Beach: 9.2 mi
- Lester Beach: 9.3 mi
- Glen Alpine Resort: 1.4 mi
- Fannette Island Tea House: 6.2 mi
- Kit Carson Historical Monument: 12.7 mi
- Snowshoe Thompson Historical Monument: 12.7 mi
- Elkus: 15.8 mi
- Washoe Meadows State Park: 2.7 mi
- Andrews Meadows: 3.4 mi
- Linder Grove: 4.5 mi
- Johnson Meadow: 5.5 mi
- Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park: 12.6 mi
- Cathedral Peak: 1.5 mi
- Tallac Point: 5.2 mi
- Distillery Wall: 5.7 mi
- Detox Wall: 5.7 mi
- Lovers Leap: 5.8 mi
- Modjeska Falls: 1.2 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 3.7 mi
- Cascade Falls: 4.9 mi
- Upper Eagle Falls: 6.2 mi
- Lower Eagle Falls: 6.2 mi
- Tallac Historic Site: 5.1 mi
- Balancing Rock: 8.7 mi
- Rubicon Point Light: 9.0 mi
- Round Hill Pines Beach Resort: 10.7 mi
- M. S. Dixie II Terminal: 11.7 mi
- Baldwin Home: 5.2 mi
- Lake Tahoe Historic Society Museum: 7.2 mi
- Genoa Courthouse Museum: 15.5 mi
- Carson Valley Museum and Cultural Center: 18.1 mi
- Alpine County Museum: 19.7 mi
- Eagle Falls Picnic Area: 6.3 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 11.9 mi
- Sandy Cove Picnic Area: 14.3 mi
- Shot Rock Vista Picnic Area: 18.0 mi
- Cleveland Corral: 19.8 mi
- St Theresa: 7.2 mi
- The Big Tree: 21.3 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 5.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of Angora Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freel Peak | E 94° | 3,305 m | 9.3 mi |
| Jobs Sister | E 92° | 3,299 m | 10.2 mi |
| Jobs Peak | E 93° | 3,233 m | 11.4 mi |
| Monument Peak | ENE 68° | 3,068 m | 10.2 mi |
| Red Lake Peak | SSE 157° | 3,067 m | 11.7 mi |
| Stevens Peak | SSE 152° | 3,061 m | 10.4 mi |
| Pyramid Peak | WSW 251° | 3,042.818 m | 4.8 mi |
| Dicks Peak | WNW 299° | 3,042 m | 4.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
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 | 31 | 31 | 36 | 40 | 48 | 55 | 62 | 60 | 54 | 46 | 37 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — S Lake Tahoe AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 256261 — Angora Peak, El Dorado County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358796625
Day trips start here
- Bliss State Park · 8 mi
- Homewood · 16 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 16 mi
- Tahoe City · 21 mi
- Olympic Valley · 24 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 26 mi
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