Mount Baxter
Mount Baxter rises to 4,004 m in California. Split Mountain stands 4,269 m to the north-northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Acrodectes Peak, a peak 0.7 miles away.
The story
Mount Baxter is a peak along the crest of the Sierra Nevada in California. Mount Baxter is on the boundary between Kings Canyon National Park and the John Muir Wilderness just north of Baxter Pass and to the northeast of the Rae Lakes, a popular backpacking destination along the John Muir Trail. Mount Baxter is named for John Baxter, who was a rancher in the Owens Valley. The mountain provides habitat for the endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and was closed to entry in the recent past.
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Wikidata Q6919648, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4004 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Acrodectes Peak: 0.7 mi
- Indian Rock: 1.3 mi
- Diamond Peak: 2.9 mi
- Lookout Point: 3.1 mi
- Colosseum Mountain: 3.2 mi
- McGann Springs: 3.8 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 4.4 mi
- Harry Birch Springs: 5.3 mi
- Tub Springs: 5.4 mi
- Scotty Spring: 5.6 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 4.0 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 7.8 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 8.0 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 10.9 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 11.0 mi
- Chicken Ranch: 19.7 mi
- Boot Arch: 20.3 mi
- Cyclops Skull Arch: 20.3 mi
- Man of Steel (movie site): 20.4 mi
- Iron Man (movie site): 20.8 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 6.0 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 6.1 mi
- Mist Falls: 10.9 mi
- Triple Falls: 13.7 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 15.4 mi
- Muro Blanco: 9.4 mi
- Windy Cliff: 15.0 mi
- Great Cliffs: 16.8 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 18.0 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 20.0 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 14.4 mi
- Japanese Garden: 14.5 mi
- Rose Garden: 14.5 mi
- Arai Pond: 14.5 mi
- Bk 22 Mess Hall Garden: 14.7 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 21.2 mi
- Mobius Arch: 21.6 mi
- Lathe Arch: 21.6 mi
- Heart Arch: 21.6 mi
- Hitching Post Arch: 22.8 mi
- Dehy Park: 9.6 mi
- Independence Park: 10.2 mi
- Merritt Park: 14.5 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 21.6 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 21.9 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 9.7 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 9.8 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 15.0 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 24.1 mi
- Museum of Western Film History: 24.5 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 20.2 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 21.5 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 24.1 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 24.7 mi
- Kearsarge: 4.1 mi
- Bend City: 13.1 mi
- San Carlos: 13.7 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 7.5 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 9.0 mi
- Paiute Mural: 14.6 mi
- Miss Alabama: 23.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Mount Baxter. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Split Mountain | NNW 343° | 4,269 m | 11.5 mi |
| Mount Stanford | S 190° | 4,260.2 m | 11.0 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | S 190° | 4,254.4 m | 11.2 mi |
| Mount Keith | S 175° | 4,249 m | 11.2 mi |
| Mount Ericsson | SSW 194° | 4,150.7 m | 11.7 mi |
| University Peak | S 180° | 4,138 m | 7.8 mi |
| Mount Pinchot | NNW 338° | 4,113.6 m | 6.4 mi |
| Cardinal Mountain | NNW 344° | 4,076 m | 9.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:31 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:38 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:01 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 256603 — Mount Baxter, Inyo County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/7931604254
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