Mount Burnham
Mount Burnham rises to 2,740 m in California. Mount San Antonio stands 3,068 m to the east-southeast, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Baden-Powell, a peak 1.0 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 26 miles off.
The story
Mount Burnham is one of the highest peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains. It is in the Sheep Mountain Wilderness. It is named for Frederick Russell Burnham the famous American military scout who taught Scoutcraft (then known as woodcraft) to Robert Baden-Powell and became one of the inspirations for the founding of the Boy Scouts. Mount Burnham was officially recognized by the USGS at a dedication ceremony in 1951. It was original known as (West Twin) "North Baldy Mountain". The peak is within Los Angeles County, about 16 miles (26 km) north of Glendora, and 66 miles (106 km) from Los Angeles. In 1956, Mount Burnham was added to the list of Signature Summits by the Hundred Peaks Section of the Sierra Club.
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Wikidata Q2855330, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2740 m
How to reach it
- 25.5 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Baden-Powell: 1.0 mi
- Throop Peak: 1.2 mi
- Mount Lewis: 1.7 mi
- Mount Hawkins: 1.8 mi
- Neight Thousand: 2.2 mi
- Vincent's Cabin: 2.2 mi
- Stanley-Miller Miner's cabin: 5.1 mi
- In the Pines: 5.4 mi
- David Burrows: 5.4 mi
- 1983 Winter Transit Memorial: 8.3 mi
- Pine Hollow Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
- Devils Punchbowl County Park: 5.1 mi
- Vista Day Use Area: 6.4 mi
- Buckhorn Day Use Area: 7.9 mi
- Hollis M. Stewart Children’s Park: 8.3 mi
- Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts: 16.6 mi
- Coastal Sage Scrub: 17.1 mi
- Baja California: 17.1 mi
- Western Junipers: 17.1 mi
- Blue Fan Palms: 17.1 mi
- A: 15.4 mi
- William G. Kerckhoff 1856-1929: 15.7 mi
- Intersections II: 17.3 mi
- Pomegranate Trees: 17.6 mi
- Millard Sheets Art Center: 18.0 mi
- Lamel Spring: 1.5 mi
- Icy Springs: 1.6 mi
- Lily Spring: 1.9 mi
- White Fir Spring: 2.4 mi
- Little Jimmy Spring: 2.9 mi
- Grassy Hollow Picnic Area: 3.6 mi
- Jackson Lake: 3.8 mi
- Mescal Picnic Area: 4.1 mi
- Arch Picnic Area: 5.2 mi
- Eagles Roost Day Use Area: 5.5 mi
- Wrightwood History Museum: 8.4 mi
- Mt. Baldy Museum & Dorothy Wisely History Center: 10.9 mi
- Glendora Historical Society: 15.9 mi
- Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology: 16.5 mi
- Sam Maloof House: 16.6 mi
- Theodore Payne Wildlife Sanctuary: 12.2 mi
- Big Dalton Canyon Wilderness Park: 14.3 mi
- Claremont Hills Wilderness Park: 15.0 mi
- Monrovia Open Space: 15.9 mi
- Sycamore Canyon Park: 16.0 mi
- Devil's Punchbowl: 5.6 mi
- Bridge to Nowhere: 5.6 mi
- Sandrocks: 6.0 mi
- Tongva Village: 17.4 mi
- Route 66: 18.9 mi
- Dorr Canyon Falls: 1.5 mi
- Cooper Canyon Falls: 6.9 mi
- San Antonio Falls: 10.3 mi
- Wolfskill Falls: 12.8 mi
- Canyon Falls: 14.3 mi
- Llano Del Rio: 10.5 mi
- Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 11.1 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 22.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.7 miles of Mount Burnham. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount San Antonio | ESE 122° | 3,068 m | 9.1 mi |
| West Baldy | SE 124° | 3,044 m | 8.8 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ESE 112° | 2,942 m | 8.4 mi |
| Dawson Peak | ESE 115° | 2,917 m | 9.1 mi |
| Mount Harwood | ESE 121° | 2,907 m | 9.8 mi |
| Mount Baden-Powell | E 93° | 2,860 m | 1.0 mi |
| Throop Peak | WSW 239° | 2,779 m | 1.2 mi |
| Telegraph Peak | ESE 123° | 2,713 m | 12.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:30 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:16 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 06:54 | 16:07 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 36 | 42 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 51 | 42 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wrightwood, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 255383 — Mount Burnham, Los Angeles County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358796363
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