Middle Palisade
Middle Palisade rises to 4,278 m in California. North Palisade stands 4,343 m to the west-northwest, 3.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Disappointment Peak, a peak 0.2 miles away.
The story
Middle Palisade is a 14,018-foot (4,273-meter) peak in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range in the U.S. state of California. It is a fourteener, and lies on the Sierra Crest as part of the Palisades group, a group of prominent Sierra Nevada mountain summits that includes multiple other fourteeners, approximately 12 miles (19 km) southwest of the town of Big Pine. Middle Palisade is the twelfth highest peak in California. Middle Palisade's eastern flank hosts the Middle Palisade Glacier, lying above the South Fork of Big Pine Creek. To Middle Palisade's west lie the Palisade Lakes, Palisade Creek, and the John Muir Trail as it ascends south towards Mather Pass. Several routes involving exposed scrambling class 3 and/or easy technical rock climbing (class 4) exist on the various flanks of Middle Palisade. Some routes involve travel on the Middle Palisade Glacier. The easiest route involves scrambling (class 3) up a chute on the east face of the peak.
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Wikidata Q4292810, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4278.2 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Disappointment Peak: 0.2 mi
- Balcony Peak: 0.3 mi
- Norman Clyde Peak: 0.4 mi
- The Thumb: 1.3 mi
- Palisade Crest: 1.3 mi
- Grouse Spring: 5.0 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 8.7 mi
- Fish Springs: 11.7 mi
- Scotty Spring: 12.2 mi
- Big Seeley Spring: 13.9 mi
- First Falls: 4.1 mi
- Second Falls: 4.4 mi
- Triple Falls: 7.6 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 17.4 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 17.4 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 11.9 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 12.2 mi
- Starlite Playground and Park: 18.0 mi
- Izaak Walton Park: 20.1 mi
- Bulpitt Park: 20.2 mi
- Windy Cliff: 7.0 mi
- Great Cliffs: 8.1 mi
- Muro Blanco: 11.5 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 14.8 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 23.6 mi
- Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center: 20.4 mi
- American Mule Museum: 20.9 mi
- Laws Railroad Museum: 23.6 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 23.7 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 23.7 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 8.7 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 9.2 mi
- Piñyon Picnic Area Nature Trail: 23.1 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 23.9 mi
- Rock Monster: 8.7 mi
- John Muir Rock: 22.0 mi
- Saline Valley Road OHV Trailhead: 23.4 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 15.3 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 20.9 mi
- Kearsarge: 19.7 mi
- Bishop Community Garden: 20.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Middle Palisade. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Palisade | WNW 303° | 4,343 m | 3.0 mi |
| Starlight Peak | NW 304° | 4,323.7 m | 3.1 mi |
| Mount Sill | NW 313° | 4,316 m | 2.6 mi |
| Polemonium Peak | WNW 304° | 4,298.2 m | 2.8 mi |
| Split Mountain | SE 143° | 4,269 m | 4.3 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | NW 305° | 4,268 m | 3.2 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | SSE 151° | 4,258.6 m | 0.2 mi |
| Barrett Peak | WNW 304° | 4,258 m | 2.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:01 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 43 | 49 | 55 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bishop AP, 22 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358803105
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