Midway Mountain
Midway Mountain rises to 4,140 m in California. Mount Tyndall stands 4,275 m to the east, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Milestone Mountain, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
Midway Mountain is a remote 13,665-foot-elevation (4,165-meter) mountain summit located on the Great Western Divide of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California. It is set on the common boundary that Kings Canyon National Park shares with Sequoia National Park, and is situated 0.6 miles (0.97 km) southwest of Table Mountain, and 0.6 mile north of Milestone Mountain. Midway Mountain ranks as the 39th-highest summit in California, and the highest point on the central Great Western Divide. It would be the highest of the entire Great Western Divide if the Kaweah Peaks were excluded. Topographic relief is significant as the west aspect rises over 4,800 feet (1,500 meters) above Cloud Canyon in three miles, and the east aspect rises over 3,800 feet (1,200 meters) above the Kern River in three miles.
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Wikidata Q49050081, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4140 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Milestone Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Milestone Mesa: 1.1 mi
- Centennial Peak: 1.1 mi
- Table Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Thunder Mountain: 1.8 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 15.5 mi
- Tharp's Log: 15.5 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 15.5 mi
- Congress Group: 15.6 mi
- Chimney Tree: 15.7 mi
- Donald Downs Plaque: 7.0 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 8.6 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 8.8 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 9.0 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 9.8 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 5.1 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 5.2 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 6.0 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 8.9 mi
- Tokopah Falls: 11.9 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 12.5 mi
- Tub Springs: 14.8 mi
- Cold Spring: 15.1 mi
- Boron Springs: 15.4 mi
- Soda Spring: 15.7 mi
- Valhalla: 7.6 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 13.4 mi
- Window Cliffs: 18.3 mi
- Muro Blanco: 18.5 mi
- Paul's Paradise: 20.1 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 18.9 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 18.9 mi
- Japanese Garden: 19.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 19.0 mi
- Kado's Garden: 19.0 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 18.4 mi
- Lathe Arch: 19.9 mi
- Mobius Arch: 19.9 mi
- Heart Arch: 20.0 mi
- Natural Arch: 20.5 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 14.0 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 16.9 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 18.1 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 18.2 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 16.9 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 19.0 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 19.1 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 19.5 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 23.4 mi
- Merritt Park: 19.0 mi
- Independence Park: 19.1 mi
- Dehy Park: 19.2 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 23.3 mi
- Spainhower Park: 23.3 mi
- Kearsarge: 14.5 mi
- San Carlos: 22.7 mi
- Bend City: 23.0 mi
- Paiute Mural: 19.0 mi
- Miss Alabama: 21.6 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 19.4 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 24.9 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 12.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Midway Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tyndall | E 84° | 4,275 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mount Barnard | E 96° | 4,266 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mount Stanford | NE 49° | 4,260.2 m | 6.4 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | NE 50° | 4,254.4 m | 6.3 mi |
| Mount Keith | ENE 63° | 4,249 m | 8.7 mi |
| Junction Peak | ENE 63° | 4,224 m | 7.3 mi |
| Caltech Peak | ENE 58° | 4,216.5 m | 6.0 mi |
| Mount Kaweah | S 178° | 4,205 m | 8.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:38 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:02 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 14 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Sequoia National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 228633 — Midway Mountain, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358770742
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