Lookout Point
Lookout Point rises to 3,105 m in California. Split Mountain stands 4,269 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Sawmill Point, a peak 1.8 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q49046758, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,105 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sawmill Point: 1.8 mi
- Indian Rock: 1.9 mi
- Colosseum Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Mount Baxter: 3.1 mi
- Acrodectes Peak: 3.7 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 1.9 mi
- Harry Birch Springs: 2.2 mi
- McGann Springs: 3.0 mi
- Scotty Spring: 3.1 mi
- Little Blackrock Spring: 5.8 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 6.3 mi
- Aberdeen Station: 9.3 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 10.5 mi
- Prospect: 10.6 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 10.9 mi
- Chicken Ranch: 20.0 mi
- Boot Arch: 20.7 mi
- Man of Steel (movie site): 20.8 mi
- Cyclops Skull Arch: 20.8 mi
- Iron Man (movie site): 21.1 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 9.0 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 9.1 mi
- Mist Falls: 13.7 mi
- Triple Falls: 14.5 mi
- First Falls: 17.5 mi
- Muro Blanco: 11.2 mi
- Windy Cliff: 15.6 mi
- Great Cliffs: 17.5 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 19.8 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 21.4 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 14.3 mi
- Japanese Garden: 14.4 mi
- Arai Pond: 14.4 mi
- Bk 22 Mess Hall Garden: 14.6 mi
- Kado's Garden: 14.7 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 22.0 mi
- Mobius Arch: 22.0 mi
- Lathe Arch: 22.0 mi
- Heart Arch: 22.1 mi
- Hitching Post Arch: 23.2 mi
- Dehy Park: 8.8 mi
- Independence Park: 9.5 mi
- Merritt Park: 14.4 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 19.2 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 19.5 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 9.0 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 9.0 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 14.8 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 24.3 mi
- Museum of Western Film History: 24.7 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 21.6 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 23.5 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 24.0 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 24.1 mi
- Kearsarge: 5.6 mi
- Bend City: 11.7 mi
- San Carlos: 12.4 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 5.9 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 6.3 mi
- Paiute Mural: 14.5 mi
- Miss Alabama: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Lookout Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Split Mountain | NNW 328° | 4,269 m | 10.5 mi |
| Mount Keith | S 185° | 4,249 m | 13.3 mi |
| University Peak | SSW 193° | 4,138 m | 10.2 mi |
| Birch Mountain | NNW 336° | 4,134 m | 13.0 mi |
| Mount Bolton Brown | NNW 328° | 4,124 m | 12.6 mi |
| Mount Pinchot | NW 310° | 4,114 m | 6.0 mi |
| Mount Prater | NNW 328° | 4,107 m | 11.8 mi |
| Cardinal Mountain | NW 326° | 4,076 m | 9.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:38 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:01 | 16:41 |
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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358798640
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