Blue Mountain
Blue Mountain rises to 2,674 m in California. Pyramid Peak stands 3,043 m to the east, 2.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Agassiz, a peak 1.6 miles away. Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive passes 16 miles off.
The story
Blue Mountain is a mountain in the Crystal Range, a subrange of the Sierra Nevada. It is west of Lake Tahoe on the western boundary of the Desolation Wilderness in El Dorado County, California.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q4929491, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,674 m
How to reach it
- 15.8 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 24.8 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Cave Rock · 19 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 20 mi
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Agassiz: 1.6 mi
- Mount Price: 1.6 mi
- Pyramid Peak: 2.2 mi
- Little Pyramid: 2.6 mi
- Jacks Peak: 3.7 mi
- Fallen Leaf Recreation Center: 7.2 mi
- Tahoe Paradise Park: 9.2 mi
- Lake Valley State Recreation Area: 9.9 mi
- Bonanza Community Park: 11.3 mi
- Thomas F Regan Memorial City Beach: 13.2 mi
- Glen Alpine Spring: 5.7 mi
- Granite Spring: 8.9 mi
- Chicken Hawk Spring: 13.1 mi
- Jim Quinn Spring: 13.5 mi
- Tragedy Spring: 14.7 mi
- Lovers Leap: 4.8 mi
- Cathedral Peak: 6.7 mi
- Sugar Bun: 8.0 mi
- Tallac Point: 10.0 mi
- Detox Wall: 10.9 mi
- Andrews Meadows: 8.9 mi
- Linder Grove: 9.4 mi
- Washoe Meadows State Park: 9.5 mi
- Johnson Meadow: 12.1 mi
- Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park: 13.8 mi
- Glen Alpine Resort: 5.8 mi
- Elkus: 9.0 mi
- Fannette Island Tea House: 9.0 mi
- Iron Mountain Ski Resort: 15.1 mi
- Kit Carson Historical Monument: 15.4 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 4.2 mi
- Modjeska Falls: 6.1 mi
- Bassi Falls: 7.8 mi
- Cascade Falls: 7.9 mi
- Upper Eagle Falls: 8.3 mi
- Baldwin Home: 10.3 mi
- Lake Tahoe Historic Society Museum: 13.5 mi
- Genoa Courthouse Museum: 21.8 mi
- Gatekeeper's Museum: 22.2 mi
- Watson Cabin: 22.5 mi
- Kiva Beach: 10.2 mi
- Pope Beach: 11.0 mi
- Lester Beach: 11.7 mi
- El Dorado Beach: 14.1 mi
- Lakeside Beach: 15.4 mi
- Eagle Falls Picnic Area: 8.5 mi
- Cleveland Corral: 13.1 mi
- Sandy Cove Picnic Area: 13.3 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 13.6 mi
- Shot Rock Vista Picnic Area: 15.5 mi
- Tallac Historic Site: 10.3 mi
- Balancing Rock: 10.9 mi
- Rubicon Point Light: 11.6 mi
- Round Hill Pines Beach Resort: 16.4 mi
- M. S. Dixie II Terminal: 17.3 mi
- St Theresa: 13.5 mi
- The Big Tree: 22.5 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 10.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Blue Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pyramid Peak | E 96° | 3,043 m | 2.2 mi |
| Dicks Peak | NE 35° | 3,042 m | 4.4 mi |
| Mount Price | NE 49° | 3,040 m | 1.6 mi |
| Agassiz | ENE 66° | 3,038 m | 1.6 mi |
| Jacks Peak | NE 39° | 3,002 m | 3.7 mi |
| Mount Tallac | NE 53° | 2,967 m | 6.6 mi |
| Little Round Top | SE 133° | 2,924 m | 10.8 mi |
| Janine's Peak | NE 42° | 2,920 m | 5.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:01 | 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 | 31 | 31 | 36 | 40 | 48 | 55 | 62 | 60 | 54 | 46 | 37 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — S Lake Tahoe AP, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358796971
Day trips start here
- Bliss State Park · 11 mi
- Homewood · 17 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 19 mi
- Tahoe City · 23 mi
- Olympic Valley · 24 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 29 mi
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