Fons Butte
Fons Butte rises to 1,660 m in California. Mount Shasta stands 4,322 m to the west, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Sugar Pine Butte, a peak 2.5 miles away.
The story
Mountain in California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49029896, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,660 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugar Pine Butte: 2.5 mi
- Trout Creek Butte: 3.5 mi
- Dry Creek Peak: 3.7 mi
- Ash Creek Butte: 3.7 mi
- Rainbow Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Ash Creek Falls: 7.5 mi
- Mud Creek Falls: 8.7 mi
- Coquette Falls: 11.7 mi
- Middle Falls: 11.7 mi
- Upper Falls: 11.9 mi
- Peaceful Warrior: 15.2 mi
- Those Left Behind: 15.3 mi
- Greatest Generation: 15.3 mi
- POW - MIA: 15.4 mi
- Korean War Memorial: 15.4 mi
- Hoo Hoo Park: 12.8 mi
- Deer Mountain Snowmobile Park: 13.0 mi
- Shastice Park: 17.0 mi
- Mount Shasta City Park: 18.2 mi
- Tauhindauli Park: 19.7 mi
- Upper Falls Day Use Area: 12.0 mi
- Lower Falls Day Use Area: 12.4 mi
- Lakin Dam: 12.5 mi
- Bigalow Bridge Day Use Area: 12.8 mi
- Cantara Loop River Access: 19.1 mi
- Everett Memorial: 14.4 mi
- Hot LZ Memorial Wall: 15.2 mi
- Living Memorial Sculpture Garden: 15.2 mi
- Monroe Memorial: 18.3 mi
- Old fire lookout foundation: 18.6 mi
- Panther Springs: 11.2 mi
- Deer Springs: 17.0 mi
- Big Springs: 18.2 mi
- Dad Lofton Spring: 18.6 mi
- Fern Spring: 23.8 mi
- Heritage Junction Museum: 13.3 mi
- Sisson Museum: 18.8 mi
- Siskiyou Arts Museum: 20.0 mi
- Weed Museum: 20.2 mi
- Red Banks: 10.7 mi
- Castle Crags: 24.0 mi
- Cosmic Wall: 24.1 mi
- Grass Lake Rest Area: 18.3 mi
- Weed Airport Rest Area: 24.3 mi
- Sulphur Springs: 10.4 mi
- Sisson Meadow: 17.6 mi
- Freudian System Cave: 17.7 mi
- Lake Siskiyou Beach: 20.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.7 miles of Fons Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Shasta | W 269° | 4,322 m | 10.4 mi |
| Misery Hill | W 267° | 4,206 m | 10.5 mi |
| Thumb Rock | W 265° | 3,939 m | 10.6 mi |
| Shastina | W 269° | 3,758 m | 11.9 mi |
| Shastarama Point | W 260° | 3,394 m | 10.5 mi |
| Casaval Ridge | W 262° | 3,188 m | 11.8 mi |
| Green Butte | WSW 255° | 2,802 m | 11.4 mi |
| The Whaleback | NW 317° | 2,601 m | 11.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:44 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 20:04 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 15:58 | 16:42 |
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 | 41 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 70 | 68 | 62 | 52 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 5.6 | 10.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mccloud, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 260230 — Fons Butte, Siskiyou County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358797822
Day trips start here
- McCloud · 13 mi
- Mount Shasta · 18 mi
- Dunsmuir · 20 mi
- Weed · 20 mi
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