Big Bald Rock
Big Bald Rock rises to 990 m in California. Red Mountain stands 1,935 m to the north-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Bald Rock, a peak 1.0 miles away.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q35726985, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 990 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Bald Rock: 1.0 mi
- Bald Rock Dome: 2.0 mi
- Wild Yankee Hill: 4.0 mi
- Island Bar Hill: 4.2 mi
- Union Hill: 4.4 mi
- Sycamore Creek Recreation Area: 5.9 mi
- Craig Recreation Area: 7.0 mi
- Foreman Creek Recreation Area: 7.3 mi
- Lake Oroville State Recreation Area: 8.1 mi
- Goat Ranch Recreation Area: 8.2 mi
- Curtain Falls: 2.5 mi
- Feather Falls: 3.8 mi
- Hollow Falls: 11.5 mi
- Little Hollow Falls: 11.6 mi
- Ravine Twin Falls: 11.6 mi
- bath house museum: 13.9 mi
- Pioneer History Museum: 14.2 mi
- Butte County Historical Society Museum: 14.2 mi
- Oroville Chinese Temple: 14.6 mi
- C F Lott Historic Home: 14.9 mi
- Cape Horn: 12.2 mi
- Marble Cone: 14.7 mi
- Elephant Butte: 16.0 mi
- Clarenback Point: 17.5 mi
- East China Point: 18.8 mi
- Brush: 4.8 mi
- Bloomer: 7.9 mi
- Bidwell's Bar: 7.9 mi
- Hamilton: 20.5 mi
- North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 12.5 mi
- Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 19.2 mi
- Bucks Lake Wilderness: 23.2 mi
- Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 18.8 mi
- Sandy Point Day Use: 19.8 mi
- Convict Flat Picnic Site: 22.5 mi
- Beatson Corral: 12.6 mi
- World Trade Center artifact: 16.3 mi
- Hespol Memorial Spring: 14.7 mi
- Hog Spring: 22.1 mi
- Collins Lake Beach: 21.5 mi
- Chico Seed Orchard: 23.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of Big Bald Rock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Mountain | NNE 31° | 1,935 m | 15.6 mi |
| Frenchman Hill | NNE 21° | 1,805 m | 15.5 mi |
| Grizzly Summit | NNE 15° | 1,778 m | 15.1 mi |
| Franklin Hill | NE 55° | 1,743 m | 15.1 mi |
| Camel Peak | ENE 68° | 1,737 m | 14.0 mi |
| Big Peak | ENE 65° | 1,686 m | 14.3 mi |
| Duffey Dome | N 7° | 1,684 m | 14.3 mi |
| Soapstone Hill | N 11° | 1,670 m | 13.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:57 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 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, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 256872 — Big Bald Rock, Butte County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358796842
Day trips start here
- Chico · 27 mi
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