Mount Brewer
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Mount Brewer rises to 4,136 m in California. Mount Tyndall stands 4,275 m to the east-southeast, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is North Guard, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
Mount Brewer is on the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada in California. It is located in Kings Canyon National Park, The peak was named for William Henry Brewer who worked on the first California Geological Survey and was the first Chair of Agriculture at Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School. He was chief of the field party that explored the central High Sierra in 1864.
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Wikidata Q6919846, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4136 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- North Guard: 0.6 mi
- South Guard: 1.0 mi
- Mount Sheldon: 1.4 mi
- Mount Farquhar: 1.6 mi
- Sky Pilot Peak: 1.6 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 17.2 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 17.4 mi
- Congress Group: 17.5 mi
- McKinley Tree: 17.6 mi
- Tharp's Log: 17.6 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 4.3 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 5.5 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 5.5 mi
- Donald Downs Plaque: 6.4 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 8.1 mi
- Tub Springs: 12.0 mi
- Boron Springs: 13.1 mi
- McGann Springs: 14.6 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 15.1 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 16.3 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 7.7 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 7.8 mi
- Mist Falls: 8.1 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 9.1 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 9.4 mi
- Valhalla: 11.0 mi
- Muro Blanco: 14.0 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 15.4 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 18.8 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 19.7 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 18.0 mi
- Japanese Garden: 18.1 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 18.2 mi
- Rose Garden: 18.2 mi
- Arai Pond: 18.2 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 19.7 mi
- Lathe Arch: 21.0 mi
- Mobius Arch: 21.0 mi
- Heart Arch: 21.1 mi
- Palette Arch: 22.2 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 15.9 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 17.9 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 18.1 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 19.4 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 16.8 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 17.0 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 18.7 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 18.8 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 24.4 mi
- Dehy Park: 17.0 mi
- Independence Park: 17.1 mi
- Merritt Park: 18.2 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 23.0 mi
- Spainhower Park: 24.3 mi
- Kearsarge: 11.3 mi
- San Carlos: 21.0 mi
- Bend City: 21.1 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 16.7 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 21.3 mi
- Paiute Mural: 18.2 mi
- Miss Alabama: 22.8 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 23.7 mi
- Jumping Rock: 24.1 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 16.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Mount Brewer. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tyndall | ESE 114° | 4,275 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mount Stanford | E 94° | 4,260.2 m | 5.0 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | E 95° | 4,254.4 m | 5.0 mi |
| Mount Keith | E 94° | 4,249 m | 7.9 mi |
| Junction Peak | E 100° | 4,224 m | 6.7 mi |
| Caltech Peak | ESE 104° | 4,216.5 m | 5.4 mi |
| Table Mountain | S 169° | 4,151 m | 3.4 mi |
| Mount Ericsson | E 101° | 4,150.7 m | 4.0 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 | 07:04 | 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, 16 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358762421
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