Ball Dome
Ball Dome rises to 2,866 m in California. Mount Sheldon stands 3,858 m to the east, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Twin Peaks, a peak 1.3 miles away.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q35725689, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,866 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Twin Peaks: 1.3 mi
- Kettle Peak: 1.7 mi
- Mount Silliman: 2.7 mi
- Mitchell Peak: 3.5 mi
- Mount Maddox: 3.9 mi
- Wall Spring: 9.7 mi
- Slide Spring: 10.2 mi
- Hidden Spring: 10.3 mi
- Granite Spring: 10.4 mi
- Big Fern Springs: 10.7 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 7.3 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 7.5 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 8.0 mi
- McKinley Tree: 8.0 mi
- Congress Group: 8.0 mi
- Tokopah Falls: 5.0 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 8.1 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 8.2 mi
- Grizzly Falls: 8.6 mi
- Lower Buck Creek Falls: 9.4 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 1.8 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 4.2 mi
- Stephen Mather memorial plaque: 9.5 mi
- Old Ranger Station: 10.8 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 11.7 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 6.5 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 11.8 mi
- Valhalla: 10.1 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 10.7 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 17.4 mi
- Muro Blanco: 18.6 mi
- Windy Cliff: 23.5 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 10.8 mi
- Cobble Knoll Recreation Area: 22.2 mi
- Slick Rock Recreation Area: 22.7 mi
- Lake Kaweah Recreation Area: 24.4 mi
- Horse Creek Recreation Area: 24.6 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 9.0 mi
- Three Rivers Historical Museum: 19.5 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 13.1 mi
- Jumping Rock: 13.5 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 21.8 mi
- Kearsarge: 22.8 mi
- Homer Ranch Preserve: 23.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.7 miles of Ball Dome. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Sheldon | E 86° | 3,858 m | 11.1 mi |
| Triple Divide Peak | ESE 123° | 3,839 m | 11.5 mi |
| Glacier Ridge | ESE 119° | 3,767 m | 9.2 mi |
| Lion Rock | SE 128° | 3,767 m | 11.4 mi |
| Copper Mine Peak | SE 125° | 3,763 m | 10.2 mi |
| Mount Stewart | SE 133° | 3,708 m | 11.4 mi |
| Horn Peak | SE 129° | 3,584 m | 8.6 mi |
| Whaleback | ESE 111° | 3,573 m | 10.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:03 | 16:43 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 6 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 256481 — Ball Dome, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358796741
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