Mount Harrington
Mount Harrington rises to 3,360 m in California. State Peak stands 3,840 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Tenderfoot Peak, a peak 1.2 miles away.
The story
Mount Harrington is an 11,009-foot-elevation (3,356-meter) mountain summit located in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated on Monarch Divide which is west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the Monarch Wilderness, on the shared boundary of Sequoia National Forest with Sierra National Forest. The first ascent of the summit was made July 27, 1951, by David Hammack and Anton Nelson.
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Wikidata Q49052929, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,360 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Tenderfoot Peak: 1.2 mi
- Bushmaster: 1.2 mi
- Hogback Peak: 1.3 mi
- The Python: 1.4 mi
- Silver Maiden: 1.4 mi
- Chicago Stump: 14.7 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 15.2 mi
- General Grant Tree: 15.6 mi
- Gamlin Cabin: 15.6 mi
- Centennial Stump: 15.6 mi
- Silver Spray Falls: 4.2 mi
- Blue Canyon Falls: 4.4 mi
- Grizzly Falls: 4.6 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 8.7 mi
- Mist Falls: 10.9 mi
- Wiesman Spring: 15.6 mi
- Lousy Spring: 17.3 mi
- Big Springs: 17.8 mi
- Cold Springs: 18.2 mi
- Trough Spring: 19.3 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 4.7 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 15.0 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
- Helms Picnic Area: 16.6 mi
- Short Hair Creek Picnic Area: 16.9 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 7.2 mi
- Blue Canyon Cabin: 7.6 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 9.2 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 11.9 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 12.8 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 5.4 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 6.3 mi
- Muro Blanco: 12.0 mi
- Great Cliffs: 12.5 mi
- Windy Cliff: 13.2 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 15.4 mi
- Teakettle Experiment Area: 18.0 mi
- Courtright Intrusive Contact Zone Geological Area: 19.2 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 10.9 mi
- Jumping Rock: 11.2 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 21.2 mi
- Kearsarge: 23.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.6 miles of Mount Harrington. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Peak | ENE 68° | 3,840 m | 11.2 mi |
| Finger Peak | N 1° | 3,780 m | 11.1 mi |
| Dougherty Peak | ENE 71° | 3,733 m | 10.9 mi |
| Goat Mountain | E 90° | 3,719 m | 8.8 mi |
| Munger Peak | E 88° | 3,680 m | 8.5 mi |
| Black Crown | NNE 13° | 3,650 m | 10.7 mi |
| Tunemah Peak | NNE 16° | 3,627 m | 9.0 mi |
| Blue Canyon Peak | N 7° | 3,615 m | 11.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:40 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:02 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 36 | 38 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 66 | 65 | 60 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 8.0 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 6.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grant Grove, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 261105 — Mount Harrington, Fresno County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358798070
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