Kettle Dome
Kettle Dome rises to 2,881 m in California. Mount Goddard stands 4,126 m to the north-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Tehipite Dome, a peak 2.0 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q118644807, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,881 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Tehipite Dome: 2.0 mi
- Fascination Turret: 3.0 mi
- Gendarme Turret: 3.0 mi
- Frustration Turret: 3.1 mi
- El Corporale Turret: 3.3 mi
- Blue Canyon Falls: 2.3 mi
- Silver Spray Falls: 2.3 mi
- Grizzly Falls: 10.2 mi
- Garlic Falls: 10.9 mi
- Rancheria Creek Falls: 11.7 mi
- Cold Springs: 12.3 mi
- Wiesman Spring: 13.1 mi
- Lousy Spring: 14.7 mi
- Trough Spring: 19.8 mi
- Fox Spring: 20.3 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Helms Picnic Area: 11.3 mi
- Short Hair Creek Picnic Area: 11.6 mi
- Wee-mee-kute Picnic Site: 14.7 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
- Rock Monster: 14.7 mi
- Chicago Stump: 15.2 mi
- Gamlin Cabin: 17.1 mi
- General Grant Tree: 17.1 mi
- Centennial Stump: 17.2 mi
- Blue Canyon Cabin: 3.0 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 10.6 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 15.2 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 17.8 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 17.9 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 6.1 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 9.7 mi
- Great Cliffs: 11.3 mi
- Windy Cliff: 12.8 mi
- Muro Blanco: 14.8 mi
- Courtright Intrusive Contact Zone Geological Area: 13.4 mi
- Teakettle Experiment Area: 13.9 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 18.8 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 12.7 mi
- Jumping Rock: 12.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.9 miles of Kettle Dome. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Goddard | NNE 19° | 4,126 m | 11.4 mi |
| Mount McDuffie | NE 42° | 4,047 m | 11.7 mi |
| Charybdis | NE 34° | 3,988 m | 11.6 mi |
| Mount Hansen | NNE 31° | 3,955 m | 10.2 mi |
| Scylla | NNE 30° | 3,940 m | 10.6 mi |
| Wheel Mountain | NE 51° | 3,883 m | 11.0 mi |
| The Three Sirens | NNE 31° | 3,854 m | 10.8 mi |
| Mount Reinstein | NNE 16° | 3,842 m | 9.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:40 | 20:19 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:02 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 65 | 73 | 81 | 81 | 76 | 66 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 5.6 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Balch PWR House, 17 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/7929571551
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