Magic Mountain
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Magic Mountain rises to 1,477 m in California. Pacifico Mountain stands 2,165 m to the east, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is The Pinnacle, a peak 2.7 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 20 miles off.
The story
Magic Mountain is a mountain in the western San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, at the eastern edge of the Santa Clarita Valley. It can be seen to the east of Canyon Country, to the southeast of Soledad Canyon, and to the south of Agua Dulce. It is in both the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Angeles National Forest. A U.S. Wilderness area of the same name was established in 2009 on its north slopes. The mountain is also the namesake of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Santa Clarita. In the mid-20th century, the mountain hosted integrated fire control facilities related to Project Nike as part of the Los Angeles Nike Missile Ring, bearing the name LA-98-C, with the missile launch station located at the base of the mountain in Soledad Canyon next to the Lang Southern Pacific Station. After the station's closure, the infrastructure on the peak was later reused as a rocket fuel laboratory by the Marquardt Corporation for a number of space exploration projects, including the Apollo program.
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Wikidata Q49047414, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,477 m
How to reach it
- 19.6 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- The Pinnacle: 2.7 mi
- Mendenhall Peak: 2.8 mi
- Kagel Mountain: 4.9 mi
- Mount McKinley: 4.9 mi
- Limerock Peak: 5.0 mi
- Abandoned Oil Rigs: 6.3 mi
- Convento: 10.9 mi
- Burbank Christmas Tree: 12.6 mi
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- Truck Jump into Creek: 13.7 mi
- Enchanted Railroad: 14.4 mi
- Vasquez Rocks Natural Area and Nature Center: 7.1 mi
- Placerita Canyon Nature Center: 7.9 mi
- Discovery Cube Science Center: 8.6 mi
- Nethercutt Museum: 9.4 mi
- Bolton Hall: 9.5 mi
- El Cariso Mountain Garden: 6.7 mi
- Hummingbird Garden: 7.9 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 8.0 mi
- Sunland Community Garden: 8.7 mi
- Howard Finn Community Garden: 9.0 mi
- Cypress Park: 4.8 mi
- Begonias Lane Park: 5.2 mi
- Stonecrest Park: 5.2 mi
- Lopez Canyon Park: 5.7 mi
- Oak Spring Canyon Park: 5.8 mi
- Dos Picos: 7.0 mi
- Communitree: 7.5 mi
- Canyon Dreamscape: 7.7 mi
- Construction UCLA: 8.0 mi
- Elephant Bush: 9.1 mi
- American Graphite Mine: 4.7 mi
- Car wreck: 6.6 mi
- Oak of the Golden Dream: 8.1 mi
- Griffith Ranch Historical Monument: 8.1 mi
- Lake View Terrace Triangle: 8.6 mi
- Quail Spring: 3.0 mi
- Indian Springs: 3.5 mi
- Barrel Spring: 3.6 mi
- Yerba Buena Spring: 4.6 mi
- Fascination Spring: 6.5 mi
- North Fork Saddle: 4.4 mi
- Wildwood Picnic: 8.1 mi
- Stonyvale Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
- Wagon Tracks: 11.3 mi
- Tumbleweeds: 11.4 mi
- Santa Clarita City Open Space: 5.3 mi
- East Walker Ranch Open Space: 5.7 mi
- Stevenson Family Open Space: 5.8 mi
- Placerita Canyon State Park: 7.6 mi
- Fond Nature Preserve: 7.7 mi
- Trail Canyon Falls: 6.2 mi
- Whitney Canyon Waterfalls: 8.4 mi
- Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 13.3 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls: 13.3 mi
- Lower Switzer Falls: 13.5 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 13.3 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 14.0 mi
- Mentryville: 16.1 mi
- Spa Palace: 23.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.3 miles of Magic Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacifico Mountain | E 91° | 2,165 m | 16.8 mi |
| Granite Mountain | E 94° | 1,998 m | 14.7 mi |
| Mount Gleason | E 94° | 1,990 m | 8.7 mi |
| Roundtop | E 99° | 1,908 m | 15.0 mi |
| Strawberry Peak | ESE 121° | 1,879 m | 13.9 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | SE 127° | 1,878 m | 16.5 mi |
| Messenger Peak | E 93° | 1,833 m | 7.5 mi |
| Mount Disappointment | SE 127° | 1,819 m | 16.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:32 | 20:10 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 06:57 | 16:09 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 56 | 57 | 59 | 62 | 66 | 70 | 76 | 77 | 75 | 68 | 61 | 55 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burbank Glendale Pasadena AP, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358808298
Day trips start here
- Santa Clarita · 10 mi
- Santa Clarita Valley · 11 mi
- Angeles National Forest · 12 mi
- San Fernando Valley · 13 mi
- Valencia · 13 mi
- Burbank · 14 mi
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