Black Butte
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Black Butte rises to 1,938 m in California. Mount Shasta stands 4,322 m to the east-northeast, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Old fire lookout foundation, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
Black Butte (formerly Wintoon Butte, Cone Mountain, Sugar Loaf and Muir's Peak) is a cluster of overlapping dacite lava domes in a butte, a satellite cone of Mount Shasta. It is located directly adjacent to the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 at milepost 742 between the cities of Mount Shasta and Weed, California. The I-5 freeway crosses a 3,912 ft (1,192 m) pass, Black Butte Summit, at the western base of the lava domes. The lava domes were extruded at the foot of the cone of Shastina following the period of its major eruptions about 9,000–10,000 years ago.
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Wikidata Q4920457, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1938 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Spring Hill: 2.5 mi
- Quail Hill: 4.9 mi
- Casaval Ridge: 6.9 mi
- Shastina: 7.1 mi
- Shastina: 7.1 mi
- Faery Falls: 7.3 mi
- Whitney Falls: 8.6 mi
- Coquette Falls: 8.9 mi
- Mossbrae Falls: 9.6 mi
- Hedge Creek Falls: 9.8 mi
- Siskiyou Art Musuem: 11.5 mi
- Peaceful Warrior: 13.7 mi
- Greatest Generation: 13.7 mi
- Those Left Behind: 13.7 mi
- The Flute Player: 13.8 mi
- Old fire lookout foundation: 0.0 mi
- Monroe Memorial: 2.8 mi
- Everett Memorial: 5.4 mi
- Mount Eddy Lookout Tower Ruins: 7.5 mi
- Hot LZ Memorial Wall: 13.6 mi
- Big Springs: 2.8 mi
- Panther Springs: 7.8 mi
- Shasta View Spring: 9.2 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 9.3 mi
- White Ridge Spring: 11.8 mi
- Mount Shasta City Park: 2.9 mi
- Shastice Park: 4.0 mi
- Bel Air Park: 4.0 mi
- Charles Byrd Park: 5.3 mi
- Tauhindauli Park: 10.7 mi
- Cougar Park Picnic Area: 4.7 mi
- Ney Springs River Access: 6.9 mi
- Cantara Loop River Access: 7.3 mi
- Riverside Day Use Area: 15.1 mi
- Lower Falls Day Use Area: 18.9 mi
- Sisson Museum: 4.1 mi
- Weed Museum: 4.5 mi
- Siskiyou Arts Museum: 11.5 mi
- Heritage Junction Museum: 13.4 mi
- Red Banks: 8.0 mi
- Red Banks: 8.0 mi
- Castle Crags: 12.5 mi
- Cosmic Wall: 13.3 mi
- Weed Airport Rest Area: 9.5 mi
- Weed Airport Rest Area: 9.5 mi
- Grass Lake Rest Area: 21.3 mi
- Sisson Meadow: 4.0 mi
- Shasta Valley Wildlife Area: 24.4 mi
- Lake Siskiyou Beach: 6.2 mi
- Sulphur Springs: 8.4 mi
- 1727 Class M6: 10.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.7 miles of Black Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Shasta | ENE 70° | 4,321.8 m | 8.5 mi |
| Misery Hill | ENE 71° | 4,206.2 m | 8.2 mi |
| Thumb Rock | ENE 74° | 3,938.9 m | 8.1 mi |
| Shastina | ENE 65° | 3,758.2 m | 7.1 mi |
| Shastina | ENE 65° | 3,758.2 m | 7.1 mi |
| Shastarama Point | E 81° | 3,393.9 m | 8.1 mi |
| Casaval Ridge | ENE 77° | 3,187.9 m | 6.9 mi |
| Green Butte | E 88° | 2,802 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:45 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 20:05 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:59 | 16:44 |
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 | 36 | 38 | 42 | 47 | 54 | 61 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 51 | 41 | 35 |
| Precip in | 7.1 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 4.3 | 7.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Shasta, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 266457 — Black Butte, Siskiyou County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358799766
Day trips start here
- Mount Shasta · 4 mi
- Weed · 4 mi
- Dunsmuir · 12 mi
- McCloud · 13 mi
- Siskiyou County · 19 mi
- Callahan · 24 mi
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