Mount Ingalls
Mount Ingalls rises to 2,542 m in California. Dixie Mountain stands 2,537 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Cinder Spring, a spring 4.5 miles away.
The story
Mount Ingalls is a mountain located in the Northern Sierra Nevada in California. The peak rises to an elevation of 8,376 feet (2,553 m), and is the highest point in Plumas County and Plumas National Forest. Most of the precipitation that falls on the mountain is snow due to the high elevation.
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Wikidata Q6921417, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2542 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Babcock Peak: 7.0 mi
- Mount Mahogany: 7.1 mi
- Argentine Rock: 7.7 mi
- Tower Rock: 7.9 mi
- Threemile Rock: 8.0 mi
- State Game Refuge One-V: 8.7 mi
- Delleker Park: 14.5 mi
- Kids Creek Forest: 14.6 mi
- Mount Hough State Game Refuge: 14.8 mi
- Clock Park: 15.4 mi
- Cinder Spring: 4.5 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 6.0 mi
- Section 15 Spring: 6.1 mi
- Rocky Point Spring: 6.2 mi
- Oso Kum Spring: 7.8 mi
- Western Pacific Railroad Museum: 15.4 mi
- Plumas-Eureka State Park Museum: 16.8 mi
- Plumas County Museum: 17.4 mi
- Plumas County Museum: 17.4 mi
- Massack Rest Area: 12.0 mi
- L.T.Davis Rest Area: 16.3 mi
- Honey Lake Rest Area: 20.1 mi
- Indian Falls: 18.3 mi
- Fern Falls: 19.5 mi
- Frazier Falls: 19.9 mi
- Limestone Point: 17.0 mi
- Rocky Point: 20.8 mi
- Marble Hot Springs: 21.8 mi
- Marble Hot Springs: 21.8 mi
- Jackson Creek Picnic Ground: 10.5 mi
- Jamison: 15.3 mi
- Mammoth Mill: 16.8 mi
- Bald Mountain Recreation Area: 24.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Mount Ingalls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie Mountain | ESE 102° | 2,537 m | 18.5 mi |
| Kettle Benchmark | NNW 335° | 2,390 m | 11.6 mi |
| Kettle Rock | NNW 333° | 2,377 m | 11.4 mi |
| Tower Rock | W 271° | 2,342 m | 7.9 mi |
| Smith Peak | SSE 149° | 2,330 m | 10.1 mi |
| Grizzly Peak | W 280° | 2,325 m | 9.3 mi |
| Eisenheimer Peak | NNW 337° | 2,287 m | 13.3 mi |
| Crocker Mountain | SE 126° | 2,269 m | 11.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:39 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:55 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:58 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 34 | 38 | 43 | 51 | 59 | 66 | 64 | 58 | 48 | 38 | 31 |
| Precip in | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Portola, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1658822 — Mount Ingalls, Plumas County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358806629
Day trips start here
- Sierra County · 29 mi
- Loyalton · 30 mi
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