Crooks Mountain
Crooks Mountain rises to 1,020 m in California. White Chief Mountain stands 2,637 m to the east-northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Peak, a peak 2.3 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 25 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q35736508, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,020 m
How to reach it
- 25.5 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Indian Peak: 2.3 mi
- Twin Sisters: 3.0 mi
- Miami Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Indian Hill: 3.6 mi
- Butler Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park: 2.5 mi
- Wassama Roundhouse State Historic Park: 2.8 mi
- Oakhurst Community Park: 7.4 mi
- Indian Lakes Park: 12.7 mi
- Mariposa Park: 12.7 mi
- Cold Spring: 6.6 mi
- Specimen Springs: 7.2 mi
- Big Spring: 9.8 mi
- Rogers Spring: 11.1 mi
- Daulton Spring: 14.4 mi
- Red Rock Falls: 8.4 mi
- Corlieu Falls: 8.6 mi
- Angel Falls: 11.5 mi
- Lower Chilnualna Falls: 14.2 mi
- Chilnualna Fall: 15.3 mi
- Gold Rush BBQ: 9.9 mi
- The Falls Picnic Site: 11.6 mi
- Lakeside Day Use Area: 13.4 mi
- Pine Point Day Use: 13.8 mi
- Rocky Point Picnic Ground: 13.8 mi
- Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park: 8.1 mi
- Thornberry Museum: 8.7 mi
- California State Mining and Mineral Museum: 11.3 mi
- Coarsegold Historic Museum: 12.1 mi
- Yosemite History Center: 12.8 mi
- Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Historical Railroad: 8.8 mi
- Big Ed: 10.9 mi
- Bull Buck Tree: 11.2 mi
- Willow Creek Trail: 11.5 mi
- Mariposa Welcome Plaza: 11.8 mi
- South Fork Bluffs: 17.7 mi
- Rockslides: 24.6 mi
- Fireplace Bluffs: 24.7 mi
- The Fissures: 24.8 mi
- Profile Cliff: 24.9 mi
- Mt Buckingham School (historic): 10.1 mi
- September 11, 2001 Memorial: 12.7 mi
- Whites Cabin: 19.2 mi
- Exact Center of California: 23.1 mi
- Fremont’s Fort: 24.1 mi
- Nelder Grove Historical Area: 10.7 mi
- San Joaquin Experimental Range: 18.7 mi
- Whisky Snowmobile Area: 21.0 mi
- Big Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 25.0 mi
- Agua Fria: 15.4 mi
- Mount Ophir: 18.5 mi
- Oakhurst Mural: 7.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Crooks Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| White Chief Mountain | ENE 60° | 2,637 m | 15.1 mi |
| Fresno Dome | ENE 68° | 2,298 m | 14.0 mi |
| Speckerman Mountain | ENE 64° | 2,181 m | 11.8 mi |
| Greys Mountain | E 83° | 2,158 m | 13.8 mi |
| Devil Peak | N 10° | 2,114 m | 10.5 mi |
| Chowchilla Mountain | N 5° | 2,105 m | 12.5 mi |
| Wawona Dome | NE 36° | 2,105 m | 15.1 mi |
| Wawona Point | NE 44° | 2,076 m | 13.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:37 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:45 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 16:05 | 16:45 |
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 | 36 | 39 | 43 | 50 | 59 | 65 | 65 | 60 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 7.6 | 6.7 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 5.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SO Entrance Yosemite NP, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358795499
Day trips start here
- Sierra Nevada · 27 mi
- Yosemite National Park · 27 mi
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