Aspen Butte
Aspen Butte rises to 2,503 m in Oregon. Mount McLoughlin stands 2,895 m to the northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Carmine, a peak 1.3 miles away. Volcanic Legacy passes 5.8 miles off.
The story
Aspen Butte is a steep-sided shield volcano in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon. It is located 15 miles (24 km) south of Pelican Butte and 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Mount McLoughlin. It rises over 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above the nearby shore of Upper Klamath Lake. Ice Age glaciers carved three large cirques into the north and northeast flanks of the mountain removing most of the original summit area including any evidence of a crater. The summit is now the high point along the curving ridge which bounds the southern edge of the cirques above steep cliffs. Aspen Butte is the highest of four overlapping shield volcanoes within the Mountain Lakes Wilderness all of which have been carved to varying degrees by glaciers. The other volcanoes are 7,979-foot (2,432 m) Mount Harriman, 7,785-foot (2,373 m) Crater Mountain and 7,741-foot (2,359 m) Greylock Mountain. Another peak, 7,882-foot (2,402 m) Mount Carmine, which lies just over 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north of Aspen Butte, is actually not a separate volcano but the highest remnant of the north flank of the Aspen Butte volcano separated from it by two glacial cirques. Little Aspen Butte, a 7,235-foot (2,205 m) satellite cone, rises on the southern flanks of the main volcano separated from it by a 6,556-foot (1,998 m) pass.
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Wikidata Q728411, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2503 m
How to reach it
- 5.8 mi off the Volcanic Legacy, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Carmine: 1.3 mi
- Little Aspen Butte: 2.3 mi
- Whiteface Peak: 2.8 mi
- Buck Peak: 3.1 mi
- Crater Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Denny Creek Historic Monument: 6.1 mi
- Howard Bay Park: 7.3 mi
- Eagle Ridge County Park: 9.3 mi
- Klamath River Recreation Site: 12.7 mi
- Topsy Recreation Site: 12.8 mi
- Spence Mountain Recreation Area: 7.5 mi
- Brown mtn trail no 1005 Trailhead: 12.3 mi
- Caboose SP 4755: 19.1 mi
- Rio Grande Caboose: 19.2 mi
- Mopac Caboose: 19.5 mi
- John C Boyle Dam: 13.5 mi
- Lakeside Manner: 15.9 mi
- Oregon Tech Sign: 16.0 mi
- OIT Solar Lighting Project: 16.1 mi
- Dunlop Ranch Cabin: 16.8 mi
- Rock Slide: 8.2 mi
- Modoc Rim: 14.5 mi
- Modoc Rim: 15.0 mi
- Algoma Incline: 15.2 mi
- Ya Whee Plateau Rim: 21.7 mi
- Big Springs: 12.3 mi
- Jenny Creek Spring: 15.2 mi
- Christi's Spring: 15.7 mi
- Jack Spring: 17.7 mi
- Latgawa Soda Springs: 18.5 mi
- The Favell Museum: 16.5 mi
- Baldwin Hotel Museum: 16.6 mi
- Klamath County Museum: 17.1 mi
- Children’s Museum of Klamath Falls: 17.7 mi
- Train Mountain Railroad Museum - Central Station: 19.6 mi
- Rainbow Bay Day Use Area: 7.5 mi
- Castle Quad: 16.1 mi
- Castle Quad: 16.1 mi
- Osprey: 24.9 mi
- Native Plant Garden: 15.7 mi
- Arboretum: 16.1 mi
- Monarch Waystation: 16.8 mi
- Klamath Welcome Center: 18.7 mi
- Pinehurst: 19.7 mi
- Sharon Fen Preserve: 22.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Aspen Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount McLoughlin | NW 308° | 2,895 m | 14.7 mi |
| Pelican Butte | NNW 348° | 2,440 m | 14.0 mi |
| Mount Harriman | N 357° | 2,401 m | 4.0 mi |
| Mount Carmine | N 11° | 2,396 m | 1.3 mi |
| Crater Mountain | WNW 287° | 2,363 m | 3.2 mi |
| Greylock Mountain | NW 316° | 2,348 m | 3.9 mi |
| Whiteface Peak | NW 307° | 2,338 m | 2.8 mi |
| Máalsi Tip | NW 305° | 2,318 m | 15.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:44 | 19:21 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:07 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 15:54 | 16:40 |
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 | 30 | 32 | 35 | 40 | 48 | 54 | 63 | 62 | 56 | 46 | 35 | 29 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Howard Prairie DAM, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1137324 — Aspen Butte, Klamath County, Oregon.
OpenStreetMap element node/357306509
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