Mount Eddy
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Mount Eddy rises to 2,751 m in California. Mount Shasta stands 4,322 m to the east-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Eddy Lookout Tower Ruins, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
Mount Eddy is the highest peak of the Trinity Mountains, a mountain range of the Klamath Mountains System, located in Siskiyou County, and Trinity County in northern California. The mountain is in the Mount Eddy RNA, a Research Natural Area on the Shasta–Trinity National Forest, a unit of the United States Forest Service. The mountain is composed of mesozoic ultramafic rock, predominantly serpentinized peridotite.
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Wikidata Q4529821, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,751 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- China Mountain: 6.4 mi
- South China Mountain: 6.4 mi
- Cory Peak: 6.5 mi
- Black Butte: 7.5 mi
- Spring Hill: 8.0 mi
- Siskiyou Art Musuem: 13.1 mi
- Peaceful Warrior: 20.1 mi
- Greatest Generation: 20.1 mi
- Those Left Behind: 20.2 mi
- The Flute Player: 20.2 mi
- Faery Falls: 8.5 mi
- Burstarse Falls: 11.0 mi
- Mossbrae Falls: 12.3 mi
- Hedge Creek Falls: 12.3 mi
- Root Creek Falls: 13.0 mi
- Mount Eddy Lookout Tower Ruins: 0.0 mi
- Old fire lookout foundation: 7.5 mi
- Monroe Memorial: 7.8 mi
- Everett Memorial: 11.8 mi
- Battle Rock: 14.4 mi
- Mount Shasta City Park: 8.0 mi
- Bel Air Park: 8.1 mi
- Shastice Park: 9.3 mi
- Charles Byrd Park: 9.5 mi
- Castle Crags State Park: 12.2 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 1.7 mi
- Shasta View Spring: 2.0 mi
- White Ridge Spring: 5.3 mi
- Picayune Spring: 7.5 mi
- Big Springs: 7.9 mi
- Cougar Park Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
- Ney Springs River Access: 9.1 mi
- Cantara Loop River Access: 9.7 mi
- Riverside Day Use Area: 14.8 mi
- Pollard Flat Picnic Area: 22.6 mi
- Sisson Museum: 7.8 mi
- Weed Museum: 8.8 mi
- Siskiyou Arts Museum: 13.2 mi
- Heritage Junction Museum: 18.2 mi
- Etna Museum: 23.5 mi
- Castle Crags: 11.7 mi
- Cosmic Wall: 12.6 mi
- Red Banks: 15.5 mi
- Lake Siskiyou Beach: 7.7 mi
- Sisson Meadow: 8.8 mi
- Weed Airport Rest Area: 11.0 mi
- Sulphur Springs: 15.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.8 miles of Mount Eddy. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Shasta | ENE 67° | 4,322 m | 16.0 mi |
| Misery Hill | ENE 68° | 4,206 m | 15.8 mi |
| Thumb Rock | ENE 70° | 3,939 m | 15.6 mi |
| Shastina | ENE 65° | 3,758 m | 14.6 mi |
| Shastarama Point | ENE 73° | 3,394 m | 15.5 mi |
| Casaval Ridge | ENE 71° | 3,188 m | 14.3 mi |
| Green Butte | ENE 76° | 2,802 m | 14.6 mi |
| China Mountain | NW 309° | 2,606 m | 6.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:46 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 20:06 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:00 | 16:44 |
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 | 36 | 38 | 42 | 47 | 54 | 61 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 51 | 41 | 35 |
| Precip in | 7.1 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 4.3 | 7.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Shasta, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 259794 — Mount Eddy, Siskiyou County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358797684
Day trips start here
- Mount Shasta · 9 mi
- Weed · 9 mi
- Dunsmuir · 13 mi
- Callahan · 17 mi
- McCloud · 18 mi
- Siskiyou County · 19 mi
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