Big Bird Peak
Big Bird Peak rises to 3,536 m in California. Mount Kaweah stands 4,205 m to the southeast, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Horn Peak, a peak 1.3 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q119862118, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,536 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Horn Peak: 1.3 mi
- Glacier Ridge: 2.5 mi
- Winter Alta: 2.9 mi
- Copper Mine Peak: 3.0 mi
- Cherubin Dome: 3.1 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 8.5 mi
- Tharp's Log: 8.5 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 8.5 mi
- Congress Group: 8.6 mi
- McKinley Tree: 8.7 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 2.4 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 3.1 mi
- Tokopah Falls: 5.0 mi
- Lower Buck Creek Falls: 5.4 mi
- Panther Creek Falls: 8.2 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 7.5 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 7.6 mi
- Stephen Mather memorial plaque: 9.6 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 10.1 mi
- Empire Mill Ruins: 10.6 mi
- Wall Spring: 10.3 mi
- Big Fern Springs: 10.7 mi
- Granite Spring: 10.7 mi
- Slide Spring: 10.8 mi
- Cold Spring: 11.2 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 9.4 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 10.1 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 11.3 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 13.2 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Valhalla: 3.0 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 18.0 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 19.6 mi
- Window Cliffs: 19.8 mi
- Muro Blanco: 21.0 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 17.2 mi
- Cobble Knoll Recreation Area: 22.5 mi
- Slick Rock Recreation Area: 23.1 mi
- Horse Creek Recreation Area: 24.8 mi
- Natural Arch: 21.6 mi
- Natural Bridge: 21.7 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 24.9 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 9.9 mi
- Three Rivers Historical Museum: 20.0 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 20.5 mi
- Jumping Rock: 20.8 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 14.4 mi
- Kearsarge: 20.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Big Bird Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Kaweah | SE 131° | 4,205 m | 9.2 mi |
| Red Kaweah | SE 133° | 4,185 m | 7.4 mi |
| Michael's Pinnacle | SE 133° | 4,170 m | 7.5 mi |
| Second Kaweah | SE 132° | 4,166 m | 8.2 mi |
| Table Mountain | ENE 65° | 4,151 m | 7.9 mi |
| Milestone Mountain | ENE 77° | 4,149 m | 6.8 mi |
| Koontz Pinnacle | SE 131° | 4,145 m | 7.0 mi |
| Black Kaweah | SE 133° | 4,140 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:39 | 20:17 |
| 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, 7 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/11178967378
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