Brown Butte
Brown Butte rises to 885 m in California. Cache Peak stands 2,035 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is De Stazo Hill, a peak 2.5 miles away. 120 named places lie within 25 miles, 39 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q35729491, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 885 m
How to reach it
120 named places within 25 miles
- De Stazo Hill: 2.5 mi
- Lookout Hill: 3.6 mi
- Sanborn Hill: 4.1 mi
- Standard Hill: 8.1 mi
- Desert Butte: 8.7 mi
- Corvais Community Park: 7.1 mi
- Onizuka Park: 7.8 mi
- Mojave East Park: 8.7 mi
- Balsitis Park: 10.2 mi
- Mojave West Park: 10.2 mi
- Eagle Spring: 15.7 mi
- Lieva Springs: 17.0 mi
- Bean Spring: 17.5 mi
- Tolly Spring: 17.7 mi
- Sweetwater Spring: 18.3 mi
- Air Force Flight Test Center Museum: 8.1 mi
- Century Circle: 8.3 mi
- Rio Tinto Borax Mine Visitor Center: 19.8 mi
- Antelope Valley Rural Museum: 20.0 mi
- Museum of Art and History: 20.8 mi
- B-52: 8.5 mi
- Test Facility Race Car Paddock Area: 15.0 mi
- The Musical Road of California: 19.8 mi
- F-4 Phantom II: 20.7 mi
- Former Lancaster Grammar School Auditorium: 20.9 mi
- Desert Tortoise Preserve: 14.3 mi
- Desert Tortoise Habitat Area: 16.5 mi
- Prime Desert Woodland Preserve: 23.7 mi
- Butte Valley Wildflower Sanctuary: 24.3 mi
- Desert Tortoise Natural Area: 24.4 mi
- Saddleback Butte picnic area: 23.7 mi
- Donley: 24.2 mi
- Tamarisk Grove: 24.9 mi
- Red Rooster Picnic Site: 25.0 mi
- X1 Loading Pit: 10.6 mi
- Aerospace Walk of Honor: 20.7 mi
- Josephine Stephens Bishop: 21.9 mi
- One Desert Sky: 20.1 mi
- Astral Challenger: 22.9 mi
- Boron Rest Area: 17.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Brown Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cache Peak | NW 323° | 2,035 m | 20.4 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | NW 313° | 1,893 m | 23.6 mi |
| Middle Knob | NW 319° | 1,891 m | 16.1 mi |
| Red Mountain | NW 310° | 1,743 m | 17.7 mi |
| Pajuela Peak | WNW 302° | 1,728 m | 17.5 mi |
| Limestone Mountain | W 275° | 1,634 m | 18.9 mi |
| Cross Mountain | NNW 344° | 1,586 m | 21.1 mi |
| Chuckwalla Mountain | N 350° | 1,533 m | 20.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:33 | 20:10 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:17 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 06:57 | 16:06 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 67 | 77 | 83 | 82 | 75 | 64 | 52 | 44 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mojave, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358781146
Day trips start here
- Palmdale · 28 mi
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