Big Bend Mountain
Big Bend Mountain rises to 777 m in California. Grizzly Summit stands 1,778 m to the northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Brush, a ghost town 2.2 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q35727023, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 777 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Wild Yankee Hill: 2.7 mi
- Swayne Hill: 2.9 mi
- Bloomer Hill: 3.3 mi
- Hump Hill: 3.3 mi
- Patton Peak: 3.9 mi
- Goat Ranch Recreation Area: 4.0 mi
- Crain Memorial Park: 6.0 mi
- Bloomer Primitive Recreation Area: 6.0 mi
- Lime Saddle Memorial Park: 6.2 mi
- Foreman Creek Recreation Area: 7.7 mi
- Curtain Falls: 8.0 mi
- Phantom Falls: 8.5 mi
- Little Phantom Falls: 8.6 mi
- Ravine Twin Falls: 8.7 mi
- Ravine Falls: 8.7 mi
- Depot Museum: 10.1 mi
- bath house museum: 13.5 mi
- Pioneer History Museum: 13.7 mi
- Butte County Historical Society Museum: 13.9 mi
- Oroville Chinese Temple: 14.1 mi
- Beatson Corral: 9.9 mi
- World Trade Center artifact: 11.4 mi
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF Kristina Chesterman 1992-2013: 19.2 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 19.6 mi
- Phagna Norapamok Memorial: 20.9 mi
- Downtown Kaleidoscope: 21.1 mi
- Monoliths: 21.2 mi
- Wildcat Sculpture: 21.2 mi
- Three Sisters: 21.3 mi
- Ring Roll: 21.3 mi
- Cape Horn: 6.0 mi
- Clarenback Point: 12.4 mi
- East China Point: 13.1 mi
- Elephant Butte: 13.2 mi
- Marble Cone: 17.6 mi
- Hespol Memorial Spring: 8.6 mi
- Hog Spring: 15.9 mi
- Root Spring: 23.9 mi
- Colyear Springs: 23.9 mi
- Negro Spring: 24.1 mi
- Brush: 2.2 mi
- Bloomer: 5.5 mi
- Bidwell's Bar: 9.7 mi
- Hamilton: 19.6 mi
- Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 12.7 mi
- Five Mile: 18.8 mi
- Sandy Point Day Use: 19.9 mi
- Philbrook Picnic Area: 22.8 mi
- North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 9.8 mi
- Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 18.7 mi
- Bucks Lake Wilderness: 22.6 mi
- Chico Seed Orchard: 17.9 mi
- Mary Lemcke Camellia Garden: 21.2 mi
- George Petersen Rose Garden: 21.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.4 miles of Big Bend Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grizzly Summit | NE 40° | 1,778 m | 14.4 mi |
| Duffey Dome | NE 34° | 1,684 m | 12.8 mi |
| Soapstone Hill | NE 40° | 1,670 m | 12.2 mi |
| Glazer Point | ENE 61° | 1,645 m | 12.8 mi |
| Grizzly Dome | NNE 24° | 1,501 m | 13.3 mi |
| Bear Ranch Hill | NNE 23° | 1,455 m | 11.1 mi |
| Little Marble Cone | ENE 73° | 1,421 m | 12.4 mi |
| Whiskey Hill | E 84° | 1,418 m | 13.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:57 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:03 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 49 | 53 | 57 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 74 | 64 | 53 | 47 |
| Precip in | 10.2 | 10.1 | 8.3 | 4.6 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 5.5 | 11.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Paradise, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1658050 — Big Bend Mountain, Butte County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358806098
Day trips start here
- Chico · 21 mi
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