Milestone Mountain
Milestone Mountain rises to 4,149 m in California. Mount Tyndall stands 4,275 m to the east, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Centennial Peak, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
Milestone Mountain is a thirteener on the Great Western Divide, a subrange of the Sierra Nevada. The summit marks a point on the boundary between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. It is 0.6 miles (0.97 km) south of Midway Mountain and 3.8 miles (6.1 km) northeast of Triple Divide Peak. It takes its name from the shape of the obelisk on its peak, and has been called this since at least 1873.
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Wikidata Q6851612, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4149 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Centennial Peak: 0.6 mi
- Midway Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Milestone Mesa: 0.7 mi
- Table Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Thunder Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Tharp's Log: 15.2 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 15.3 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 15.3 mi
- Congress Group: 15.4 mi
- Chimney Tree: 15.5 mi
- Donald Downs Plaque: 7.4 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 8.4 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 9.2 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 9.4 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 10.4 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 4.6 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 4.7 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 5.6 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 8.6 mi
- Lower Buck Creek Falls: 11.6 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 12.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 14.6 mi
- Soda Spring: 15.1 mi
- Tub Springs: 15.3 mi
- Boron Springs: 15.9 mi
- Valhalla: 7.2 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 13.3 mi
- Window Cliffs: 17.7 mi
- Muro Blanco: 19.1 mi
- Paul's Paradise: 20.0 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 19.1 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 19.1 mi
- Japanese Garden: 19.2 mi
- Kado's Garden: 19.2 mi
- Rose Garden: 19.2 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 18.4 mi
- Natural Arch: 19.9 mi
- Lathe Arch: 19.9 mi
- Mobius Arch: 19.9 mi
- Natural Bridge: 20.0 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 13.9 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 16.2 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 16.8 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 17.8 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 18.5 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 16.7 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 19.4 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 19.5 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 19.7 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 23.4 mi
- Merritt Park: 19.2 mi
- Independence Park: 19.5 mi
- Dehy Park: 19.6 mi
- Spainhower Park: 23.3 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 23.3 mi
- Kearsarge: 15.0 mi
- San Carlos: 23.0 mi
- Bend City: 23.4 mi
- Paiute Mural: 19.2 mi
- Miss Alabama: 21.6 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 11.6 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 19.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Milestone Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tyndall | E 80° | 4,275 m | 8.3 mi |
| Mount Barnard | E 93° | 4,266 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mount Stanford | NE 46° | 4,260.2 m | 6.9 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | NE 46° | 4,254.4 m | 6.8 mi |
| Mount Keith | ENE 60° | 4,249 m | 9.0 mi |
| Junction Peak | ENE 59° | 4,224 m | 7.6 mi |
| Caltech Peak | NE 54° | 4,216.5 m | 6.4 mi |
| Mount Kaweah | S 178° | 4,205 m | 7.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 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 228655 — Milestone Mountain, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/443533921
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