Kid Peak
Kid Peak rises to 3,492 m in California. Mount Pinchot stands 4,114 m to the east-northeast, 9.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Goat Mountain, a peak 1.4 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q49041484, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,492 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Goat Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Munger Peak: 1.6 mi
- Dougherty Peak: 3.0 mi
- State Peak: 3.7 mi
- Mount Hutchings: 4.1 mi
- Rock Monster: 16.7 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 21.5 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 23.3 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 23.7 mi
- Congress Group: 23.8 mi
- Mist Falls: 4.4 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 6.6 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 6.6 mi
- Triple Falls: 7.4 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 7.7 mi
- Scotty Spring: 13.2 mi
- McGann Springs: 14.3 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 14.6 mi
- Harry Birch Springs: 14.7 mi
- Tub Springs: 14.9 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 3.2 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 4.6 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 6.5 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 6.9 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 8.0 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 23.9 mi
- Japanese Garden: 24.0 mi
- Arai Pond: 24.1 mi
- Bk 22 Mess Hall Garden: 24.3 mi
- Kado's Garden: 24.3 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 20.2 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 21.1 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 21.2 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 22.3 mi
- Muro Blanco: 2.7 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 7.9 mi
- Windy Cliff: 8.8 mi
- Great Cliffs: 9.8 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 15.5 mi
- Dehy Park: 19.9 mi
- Independence Park: 20.4 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 23.2 mi
- Merritt Park: 24.0 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 24.7 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 19.9 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 20.0 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 24.6 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 24.9 mi
- Kearsarge: 13.4 mi
- Bend City: 23.6 mi
- San Carlos: 24.1 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 17.9 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 18.0 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 20.3 mi
- Jumping Rock: 20.7 mi
- Paiute Mural: 24.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.0 miles of Kid Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pinchot | ENE 59° | 4,114 m | 9.4 mi |
| Black Mountain | ESE 116° | 4,045 m | 10.7 mi |
| Striped Mountain | NE 53° | 4,022 m | 10.1 mi |
| Mount Wynne | ENE 63° | 4,018 m | 9.2 mi |
| Acrodectes Peak | E 97° | 4,005 m | 9.8 mi |
| Diamond Peak | ESE 112° | 4,004 m | 9.6 mi |
| Mount Baxter | E 96° | 4,004 m | 10.5 mi |
| Vennacher Needle | NNE 27° | 3,956 m | 9.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:02 | 16:42 |
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 | 44 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 20 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 262166 — Kid Peak, Fresno County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358798409
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