Gooding Butte
Gooding Butte rises to 1,171 m in Idaho. Davis Mountain stands 2,070 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Devil's washbowl waterfall, a waterfall 6.0 miles away. Thousand Springs Scenic Byway passes 8.0 miles off. 61 named places lie within 25 miles, 22 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in Idaho, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49032281, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,171 m
How to reach it
- 8.0 mi off the Thousand Springs Scenic Byway
- 17.5 mi off the Sawtooth Scenic Byway
- 26.5 mi off the Oregon Trail Back Country Byway
Overlooks nearby
- viewpoint 1 · 6 mi
- viewpoint 2 · 7 mi
- point 3 · 7 mi
- point 6 · 7 mi
61 named places within 25 miles
- Malad Gorge State Park: 6.3 mi
- Billingsley Creek Wildlife Management Area: 8.7 mi
- Hagerman City Park: 9.7 mi
- Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument Visitors Center: 9.8 mi
- McGinnis Park: 9.9 mi
- McKinney Butte: 8.3 mi
- Turkey Head Butte: 10.7 mi
- Pioneer Butte: 16.2 mi
- Notch Butte: 17.0 mi
- Gopher Knoll: 18.0 mi
- Devil's washbowl waterfall: 6.0 mi
- Salmon Falls: 12.5 mi
- Devils Washboard Falls: 16.9 mi
- Auger Falls: 22.5 mi
- Hagerman National monument and thousand springs state park visitor center: 9.0 mi
- Jerome County Historical Museum: 17.5 mi
- Shoshone Bird Museum of Natural History: 20.4 mi
- Richard Arthur Olsen Museum of Natural History: 20.4 mi
- Historic Oregon Trail 1840-1860: 14.4 mi
- Jerome County Fairgrounds: 17.1 mi
- Lincoln County Fairgrounds: 17.7 mi
- Bliss Rest Area, I-84 Eastbound: 16.3 mi
- Bliss Rest Area, I-84 Westbound: 16.3 mi
- Ritter Island: 12.5 mi
- Eagle Bluff: 19.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Gooding Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davis Mountain | NNW 339° | 2,070 m | 22.4 mi |
| The Knob | NNW 329° | 2,002 m | 24.7 mi |
| Twin Peaks | NNW 345° | 1,969 m | 21.7 mi |
| Fir Grove Mountain | N 355° | 1,889 m | 20.0 mi |
| Johnson Hill | N 11° | 1,730 m | 23.6 mi |
| Wrangle Hill | NNW 347° | 1,721 m | 19.3 mi |
| Flat Top Butte | NNE 14° | 1,689 m | 18.2 mi |
| Lookout Point | N 354° | 1,621 m | 24.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:14 | 19:51 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 20:39 | 21:22 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:01 | 19:38 |
| December solstice | 08:08 | 16:22 | 17:08 |
Local time (America/Boise).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 35 | 43 | 49 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 72 | 63 | 50 | 38 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.3 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hagerman 2 SW, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 396572 — Gooding Butte, Gooding County, Idaho.
OpenStreetMap element node/358661917
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