Keys View
More photographs at the Wikimedia Commons category.
Keys View rises to 1,581 m in California. Quail Mountain stands 1,772 m to the north-northwest, 6.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Inspiration Peak, a peak 0.8 miles away.
The story
Mountain in California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49041387, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,581 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Inspiration Peak: 0.8 mi
- Lost Horse Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Cap Rock: 4.6 mi
- Fan Hill: 5.0 mi
- Ryan Mountain: 5.1 mi
- Indio Hills Community Center: 6.4 mi
- Memory Garden: 10.2 mi
- South Dog Park: 10.2 mi
- Smoke Tree Pond: 10.4 mi
- Coachella Valley Fringe-Toed Lizard Preserve: 11.7 mi
- Dihedral Rock - Southwest Face: 6.5 mi
- Dihedral Rock - Northeast Face: 6.5 mi
- Dairy Queen - Left: 6.6 mi
- Dairy Queen Right: 6.6 mi
- Playhouse Rock: 6.6 mi
- Fry Boulders: 4.6 mi
- Hall of Horrors: 5.6 mi
- Malapai Hill viewpoint: 6.3 mi
- Star Wars Rock viewpoint and climbing access: 6.4 mi
- Quail Springs Rock Exhibit Area: 7.9 mi
- Keys Desert Queen Ranch: 8.3 mi
- JT&S Railroad Museum: 13.1 mi
- Cabazon Cultural Museum: 14.1 mi
- Coachella Valley History Museum: 14.3 mi
- Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert: 16.1 mi
- Meditation Garden: 13.7 mi
- University Park Community Gardens: 14.2 mi
- Wildflower Field: 16.1 mi
- Sunnylands Center and Gardens: 16.2 mi
- West Gardens: 16.3 mi
- Indian Palms: 8.8 mi
- Pushwalla Palms: 8.8 mi
- Indiam Palms: 9.0 mi
- Hidden Palms: 9.9 mi
- Mojave Desert Land Trust: 12.0 mi
- Stubbe Spring: 3.8 mi
- Quail Springs: 8.7 mi
- Covington Spring: 8.8 mi
- Pine Spring: 10.9 mi
- Johnson Spring: 11.1 mi
- ore stamp: 4.6 mi
- wind mill: 4.6 mi
- Gram Parsons: 4.6 mi
- Ruins of a house: 7.7 mi
- Abandoned Rusty Car: 7.7 mi
- Quail Springs Picknic area: 7.9 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 9.4 mi
- Delos Bench: 16.6 mi
- Bent Palm Picnic Area: 23.7 mi
- Cottonwood Picnic Area: 24.8 mi
- Dry Falls: 23.0 mi
- Tahquitz Falls: 23.1 mi
- West Fork Falls: 24.1 mi
- Seven Sisters Waterfall: 24.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.3 miles of Keys View. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quail Mountain | NNW 331° | 1,772 m | 6.4 mi |
| Queen Mountain | NNE 30° | 1,718 m | 10.1 mi |
| Inspiration Peak | NW 324° | 1,694 m | 0.8 mi |
| Eureka Peak | NW 308° | 1,682 m | 11.9 mi |
| Ryan Mountain | NE 36° | 1,663 m | 5.1 mi |
| Bernard Point | ESE 123° | 1,655 m | 7.3 mi |
| Mt. Minerva Hoyt | NNW 339° | 1,647 m | 6.4 mi |
| Lost Horse Mountain | ENE 76° | 1,609 m | 3.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:23 | 20:00 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:10 | 18:43 |
| December solstice | 06:47 | 16:02 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Apr.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 59 | 62 | 69 | 75 | 81 | 89 | 94 | 94 | 89 | 78 | 66 | 57 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indio Fire STN, 15 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Joshua Tree National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Jul and Aug; busiest: Mar.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358795836
Day trips start here
- Riverside County · 10 mi
- Indio · 14 mi
- Joshua Tree · 16 mi
- Twentynine Palms · 16 mi
- Coachella · 17 mi
- Indian Wells · 17 mi
Take the scenic way to Keys View.
Byway plans around your taste, mapped places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.