Bald Rock Dome
Bald Rock Dome rises to 1,022 m in California. Red Mountain stands 1,935 m to the north-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Curtain Falls, a waterfall 0.7 miles away.
The story
Bald Rock is a granite summit located in Butte County, California, in the Plumas National Forest. Located close to Lake Oroville, the dome peak overlooks Sacramento Valley and coastal mountain ranges.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q4850354, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,022 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Bald Rock: 1.1 mi
- Big Bald Rock: 2.0 mi
- Shute Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Pompys Point: 4.1 mi
- Swain Hill: 4.6 mi
- Sycamore Creek Recreation Area: 7.6 mi
- Craig Recreation Area: 8.5 mi
- Foreman Creek Recreation Area: 9.3 mi
- Lake Oroville State Recreation Area: 10.0 mi
- Goat Ranch Recreation Area: 10.0 mi
- Curtain Falls: 0.7 mi
- Feather Falls: 2.1 mi
- Hollow Falls: 13.5 mi
- Little Hollow Falls: 13.5 mi
- Ravine Twin Falls: 13.6 mi
- Marble Cone: 12.9 mi
- Cape Horn: 13.8 mi
- Elephant Butte: 15.6 mi
- Clarenback Point: 19.3 mi
- East China Point: 19.3 mi
- bath house museum: 15.8 mi
- Pioneer History Museum: 16.0 mi
- Butte County Historical Society Museum: 16.1 mi
- Oroville Chinese Temple: 16.5 mi
- C F Lott Historic Home: 16.8 mi
- Brush: 5.8 mi
- Bidwell's Bar: 9.7 mi
- Bloomer: 9.8 mi
- Hamilton: 22.3 mi
- North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 14.5 mi
- Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 21.0 mi
- Bucks Lake Wilderness: 22.0 mi
- Sandy Point Day Use: 18.5 mi
- Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
- Convict Flat Picnic Site: 21.1 mi
- Beatson Corral: 14.6 mi
- World Trade Center artifact: 18.2 mi
- Hespol Memorial Spring: 16.3 mi
- Hog Spring: 23.7 mi
- Collins Lake Beach: 22.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Bald Rock Dome. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Mountain | NNE 25° | 1,935 m | 14.2 mi |
| Frenchman Hill | NNE 15° | 1,805 m | 14.3 mi |
| Grizzly Summit | N 8° | 1,778 m | 14.1 mi |
| Franklin Hill | NE 53° | 1,743 m | 13.2 mi |
| Camel Peak | ENE 68° | 1,737 m | 12.0 mi |
| Big Peak | ENE 64° | 1,686 m | 12.3 mi |
| Duffey Dome | N 360° | 1,684 m | 13.5 mi |
| Soapstone Hill | N 3° | 1,670 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:57 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:02 | 16:45 |
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 | 41 | 41 | 43 | 47 | 55 | 62 | 69 | 68 | 64 | 55 | 46 | 40 |
| Precip in | 14.7 | 13.7 | 12.8 | 6.4 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 4.1 | 8.6 | 16.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Strawberry Valley 2, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358806005
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- Chico · 28 mi
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