Kern Point
Kern Point rises to 3,891 m in California. Mount Whitney stands 4,420 m to the east, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Lower Picket Creek Falls, a waterfall 1.4 miles away.
The story
Kern Point is a 12,763-foot-elevation (3,890-meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Tulare County, California. It is situated in Sequoia National Park, two miles northeast of Picket Guard Peak, and seven miles east of Mount Whitney. Kern Point ranks as the 220th-highest summit in California, and topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over 4,700 feet (1,400 meters) above Kern River in two miles. Kern Point is the southernmost peak on Kern Ridge, and precipitation runoff from this mountain drains to the Kern River. The river was named by John C. Frémont for Edward Kern, the artist and topographer of Frémont's third expedition in 1845. The Kern Point toponym was officially adopted in 1928 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
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Wikidata Q49041310, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3891 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Picket Guard Peak: 2.1 mi
- Milestone Mesa: 2.8 mi
- Centennial Peak: 3.3 mi
- Milestone Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Midway Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Tharp's Log: 16.7 mi
- Cleveland Tree: 17.0 mi
- Chimney Tree: 17.0 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 17.0 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 17.1 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 7.3 mi
- Donald Downs Plaque: 7.7 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 11.1 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 12.3 mi
- Empire Mill Ruins: 12.7 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 1.4 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 1.7 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 6.6 mi
- Chagoopa Falls: 8.9 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 10.1 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 9.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 13.7 mi
- Soda Spring: 13.8 mi
- Tub Springs: 16.1 mi
- Boron Springs: 16.3 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 18.1 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 18.2 mi
- Kado's Garden: 18.3 mi
- Japanese Garden: 18.3 mi
- Rose Garden: 18.3 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 16.0 mi
- Natural Arch: 16.8 mi
- Natural Bridge: 16.9 mi
- Lathe Arch: 17.7 mi
- Mobius Arch: 17.7 mi
- Valhalla: 8.1 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 10.7 mi
- Window Cliffs: 14.6 mi
- Paul's Paradise: 17.7 mi
- Southern Blonde Rock: 18.2 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 11.3 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 17.9 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 18.9 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 19.0 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 21.9 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 18.4 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 18.7 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 19.4 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 19.5 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 21.1 mi
- Merritt Park: 18.3 mi
- Independence Park: 19.5 mi
- Dehy Park: 19.7 mi
- Spainhower Park: 21.0 mi
- Diaz Lake Recreation Area: 21.7 mi
- Kearsarge: 16.2 mi
- San Carlos: 22.7 mi
- Bend City: 23.2 mi
- Paiute Mural: 18.3 mi
- Miss Alabama: 19.2 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 8.5 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 20.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.6 miles of Kern Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Whitney | E 98° | 4,419.6 m | 8.5 mi |
| Mount Williamson | ENE 61° | 4,383 m | 8.4 mi |
| Keeler Needle | E 100° | 4,361.2 m | 8.6 mi |
| Mount Russell | E 93° | 4,296 m | 8.5 mi |
| Mount Tyndall | NE 55° | 4,275 m | 7.2 mi |
| Mount Barnard | ENE 72° | 4,266 m | 7.1 mi |
| Mount Stanford | NNE 20° | 4,260.2 m | 7.9 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | NNE 20° | 4,254.4 m | 7.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:38 | 20:16 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:02 | 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 | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 16 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Sequoia National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 254847 — Kern Point, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358796127
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