Lost Horse Mountain
Lost Horse Mountain rises to 1,609 m in California. Quail Mountain stands 1,772 m to the northwest, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Malapai Hill, a peak 2.8 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,609 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Malapai Hill: 2.8 mi
- Keys View: 3.0 mi
- Inspiration Peak: 3.4 mi
- Ryan Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Cap Rock: 4.0 mi
- Peyote Cracks - West: 6.1 mi
- Dihedral Rock - Southwest Face: 6.1 mi
- Dihedral Rock - Northeast Face: 6.1 mi
- Peyote Cracks - East: 6.1 mi
- Chongo Boulder: 6.2 mi
- Indio Hills Community Center: 9.0 mi
- Joshua Tree National Park: 12.6 mi
- Memory Garden: 13.2 mi
- South Dog Park: 13.2 mi
- Smoke Tree Pond: 13.4 mi
- Malapai Hill viewpoint: 3.4 mi
- Star Wars Rock viewpoint and climbing access: 3.4 mi
- Fry Boulders: 3.8 mi
- Hall of Horrors: 4.5 mi
- Elephant Rock: 5.9 mi
- Stubbe Spring: 6.0 mi
- Pine Spring: 8.6 mi
- Quail Springs: 9.9 mi
- Johnson Spring: 10.4 mi
- Covington Spring: 10.7 mi
- Keys Desert Queen Ranch: 7.8 mi
- JT&S Railroad Museum: 14.3 mi
- Old Schoolhouse Museum, Twentynine Palms Historical Society: 14.3 mi
- Cabazon Cultural Museum: 15.2 mi
- Coachella Valley History Museum: 15.7 mi
- ore stamp: 3.3 mi
- wind mill: 3.3 mi
- Gram Parsons: 4.0 mi
- Abandoned Rusty Car: 6.5 mi
- Ruins of a house: 6.5 mi
- Pushwalla Palms: 11.3 mi
- Indian Palms: 11.5 mi
- Indiam Palms: 11.7 mi
- Hidden Palms: 12.5 mi
- Mojave Desert Land Trust: 12.9 mi
- Meditation Garden: 11.4 mi
- University Park Community Gardens: 16.8 mi
- Wildflower Field: 18.9 mi
- Sunnylands Center and Gardens: 18.9 mi
- West Gardens: 19.0 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 6.6 mi
- Quail Springs Picknic area: 7.9 mi
- Delos Bench: 19.4 mi
- Cottonwood Picnic Area: 22.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.0 miles of Lost Horse Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quail Mountain | NW 309° | 1,772 m | 7.7 mi |
| Queen Mountain | NNE 15° | 1,718 m | 8.3 mi |
| Inspiration Peak | W 269° | 1,694 m | 3.4 mi |
| Eureka Peak | WNW 298° | 1,682 m | 13.9 mi |
| Ryan Mountain | N 2° | 1,663 m | 3.4 mi |
| Bernard Point | SE 146° | 1,655 m | 5.7 mi |
| Mt. Minerva Hoyt | NW 316° | 1,647 m | 7.4 mi |
| Keys View | WSW 256° | 1,581 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 | 06:33 | 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–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 53 | 56 | 62 | 68 | 76 | 85 | 91 | 90 | 83 | 71 | 59 | 51 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Twentynine Palms, 14 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1660957 — Lost Horse Mountain, Riverside County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358808282
Day trips start here
- Riverside County · 10 mi
- Joshua Tree National Park · 14 mi
- Twentynine Palms · 14 mi
- Indio · 16 mi
- Joshua Tree · 17 mi
- Coachella · 18 mi
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