Kid Mountain
Kid Mountain rises to 3,563 m in California. North Palisade stands 4,343 m to the west, 4.7 miles off. The nearest named place is First Falls, a waterfall 1.9 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q49041480, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,563 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- The Thumb: 2.2 mi
- Mount Alice: 2.5 mi
- Birch Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Middle Palisade: 3.0 mi
- Norman Clyde Peak: 3.1 mi
- Grouse Spring: 3.0 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 5.7 mi
- Fish Springs: 9.4 mi
- Wilkerson Springs: 11.8 mi
- Uhlmeyer Spring: 12.0 mi
- First Falls: 1.9 mi
- Second Falls: 2.7 mi
- Triple Falls: 10.6 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 19.5 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 19.6 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 8.9 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 9.2 mi
- Starlite Playground and Park: 16.6 mi
- Izaak Walton Park: 18.0 mi
- Bulpitt Park: 18.0 mi
- Windy Cliff: 10.0 mi
- Great Cliffs: 11.0 mi
- Muro Blanco: 14.2 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 17.8 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 21.6 mi
- Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center: 18.1 mi
- American Mule Museum: 18.5 mi
- Laws Railroad Museum: 21.1 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 24.1 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 24.2 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 8.9 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
- Piñyon Picnic Area Nature Trail: 20.1 mi
- Schulman Grove Picnic Area: 24.0 mi
- Rock Monster: 10.4 mi
- John Muir Rock: 23.2 mi
- Methuselah: 24.1 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 15.0 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 21.4 mi
- Bishop Community Garden: 18.4 mi
- Kearsarge: 20.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.3 miles of Kid Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Palisade | W 265° | 4,343 m | 4.7 mi |
| Starlight Peak | W 265° | 4,324 m | 4.7 mi |
| Mount Sill | W 265° | 4,316 m | 4.1 mi |
| Polemonium Peak | W 264° | 4,298 m | 4.6 mi |
| Middle Palisade | SW 226° | 4,278 m | 3.0 mi |
| Split Mountain | S 176° | 4,269 m | 5.5 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | W 268° | 4,268 m | 4.8 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | SW 223° | 4,259 m | 3.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:00 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 43 | 49 | 55 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bishop AP, 19 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358768703
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