Echo Peak
Echo Peak rises to 2,698 m in California. Freel Peak stands 3,305 m to the east, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Rock, a peak 0.6 miles away. Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive passes 10 miles off.
The story
Echo Peak is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada range to the west of Lake Tahoe on the border of the Desolation Wilderness in El Dorado County, California.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q5332740, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,698 m
How to reach it
- 10.0 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 19.3 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
- 27.7 mi off the Mount Rose Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Cave Rock · 15 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 16 mi
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 26 mi
- Hell's Kitchen Vista Point · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Indian Rock: 0.6 mi
- Angora Peak: 0.7 mi
- Flagpole Peak: 1.1 mi
- Talking Mountain: 1.7 mi
- Keiths Dome: 1.8 mi
- Fallen Leaf Recreation Center: 1.6 mi
- Tahoe Paradise Park: 2.5 mi
- Lake Valley State Recreation Area: 3.3 mi
- Bonanza Community Park: 5.1 mi
- Bijou Community Park: 7.6 mi
- Glen Alpine Spring: 1.8 mi
- Folsom Spring: 11.0 mi
- Granite Spring: 15.3 mi
- Tragedy Spring: 15.5 mi
- Soda Spring: 16.4 mi
- Kiva Beach: 6.0 mi
- Pope Beach: 6.1 mi
- El Dorado Beach: 8.5 mi
- Lakeside Beach: 9.7 mi
- Lester Beach: 10.0 mi
- Cathedral Peak: 2.2 mi
- Lovers Leap: 5.2 mi
- Distillery Wall: 5.2 mi
- Detox Wall: 5.2 mi
- Tallac Point: 5.9 mi
- Andrews Meadows: 2.8 mi
- Washoe Meadows State Park: 2.9 mi
- Linder Grove: 3.9 mi
- Johnson Meadow: 6.0 mi
- Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park: 13.3 mi
- Modjeska Falls: 1.7 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 3.3 mi
- Cascade Falls: 5.6 mi
- Upper Eagle Falls: 6.9 mi
- Lower Eagle Falls: 6.9 mi
- Glen Alpine Resort: 1.8 mi
- Fannette Island Tea House: 6.9 mi
- Kit Carson Historical Monument: 12.0 mi
- Snowshoe Thompson Historical Monument: 12.0 mi
- Elkus: 15.7 mi
- Baldwin Home: 5.9 mi
- Lake Tahoe Historic Society Museum: 7.8 mi
- Genoa Courthouse Museum: 16.0 mi
- Carson Valley Museum and Cultural Center: 18.3 mi
- Alpine County Museum: 19.2 mi
- Tallac Historic Site: 5.9 mi
- Balancing Rock: 9.4 mi
- Rubicon Point Light: 9.7 mi
- Round Hill Pines Beach Resort: 11.3 mi
- M. S. Dixie II Terminal: 12.4 mi
- Eagle Falls Picnic Area: 7.0 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 12.7 mi
- Sandy Cove Picnic Area: 13.6 mi
- Shot Rock Vista Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
- Cleveland Corral: 19.6 mi
- St Theresa: 7.7 mi
- The Big Tree: 22.0 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 5.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.1 miles of Echo Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freel Peak | E 89° | 3,305 m | 9.3 mi |
| Jobs Sister | E 88° | 3,299 m | 10.2 mi |
| Jobs Peak | E 89° | 3,233 m | 11.4 mi |
| Monument Peak | ENE 64° | 3,068 m | 10.5 mi |
| Red Lake Peak | SSE 155° | 3,067 m | 11.0 mi |
| Stevens Peak | SSE 150° | 3,061 m | 9.8 mi |
| Pyramid Peak | W 260° | 3,043 m | 4.6 mi |
| Dicks Peak | NW 306° | 3,042 m | 5.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
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, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358797683
Day trips start here
- Bliss State Park · 9 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 16 mi
- Homewood · 17 mi
- Tahoe City · 22 mi
- Olympic Valley · 25 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 27 mi
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