Lightning Peak
Lightning Peak rises to 2,592 m in Idaho. Big Baldy stands 2,951 m to the south-southwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Thunder Mountain, a peak 0.3 miles away.
The story
Mountain in Valley County, Idaho, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49044188, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,592 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Thunder Mountain: 0.3 mi
- Dewey Hill: 1.1 mi
- Black Pole: 3.3 mi
- Red Ridge: 4.3 mi
- Rainbow Peak: 5.0 mi
- Cox Point: 5.2 mi
- Quartz Ridge: 16.0 mi
- McFadden Point: 17.5 mi
- Aparejo Point: 19.5 mi
- Sunflower Hot Springs: 16.4 mi
- Cox Hot Springs: 17.4 mi
- Hospital Hot Spring: 18.2 mi
- Loon Creek Hot Spring: 18.8 mi
- Kwiskwis Hot Spring: 9.1 mi
- Warm Spring: 20.7 mi
- Rainbow Spring: 24.3 mi
- The Outpost: 17.9 mi
- Yellow Pine Elementary School: 18.0 mi
- Veil Falls: 23.3 mi
- Golden Creek Falls: 23.9 mi
- Idaho Primitive Area: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Lightning Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Baldy | SSW 201° | 2,951 m | 12.2 mi |
| Red Peak Benchmark | SW 215° | 2,917 m | 6.7 mi |
| Mormon Mountain | ENE 68° | 2,902 m | 13.0 mi |
| Red Peak | SSW 207° | 2,886 m | 6.6 mi |
| Shellrock Peak | E 86° | 2,855 m | 9.4 mi |
| Two Point Peak | ENE 75° | 2,855 m | 11.4 mi |
| Rainbow Peak | WNW 282° | 2,842 m | 5.0 mi |
| Red Ridge | SSW 198° | 2,841 m | 4.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:44 | 19:14 | 19:53 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 20:46 | 21:31 |
| September equinox | 07:28 | 19:01 | 19:40 |
| December solstice | 08:16 | 16:14 | 17:03 |
Local time (America/Boise).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 29 | 37 | 44 | 52 | 60 | 67 | 66 | 58 | 46 | 33 | 24 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Middle Fork Lodge, 17 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 384644 — Lightning Peak, Valley County, Idaho.
OpenStreetMap element node/358656960
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