Mount Keith
Mount Keith rises to 4,249 m in California. Mount Whitney stands 4,420 m to the south-southeast, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Junction Peak, a peak 1.4 miles away.
The story
Mount Keith is a mountain on the crest of California's Sierra Nevada, between Mount Bradley to the north, and Junction Peak to the southwest. Its north and west facing slopes feed the Kings River watershed by way of Bubbs Creek, and its east and south slopes feed the Owens River via Shepherd Creek. By the same dividing line, Keith stands on the boundary of Kings Canyon National Park to the northwest, and the John Muir Wilderness to the southeast. It is a thirteener, a mountain which has a height over 13000 feet. The peak was named for artist and Sierra Club member, William Keith, by Helen Gompertz (later Helen LeConte) in July 1896. The first ascending party consisted of Cornelius Beach Bradley, Jennie and Robert Price, and Joseph Shinn. Scrambling over boulders and scree from the upper lakes of Center Basin, they made the summit by the Northwest Face route on July 6, 1898.
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Wikidata Q6921618, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4249 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Junction Peak: 1.4 mi
- Center Peak: 1.8 mi
- Polychrome Peak: 2.0 mi
- Mount Bradley: 2.0 mi
- Caltech Peak: 2.7 mi
- Boron Springs: 7.2 mi
- Tub Springs: 7.3 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 10.2 mi
- McGann Springs: 10.9 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 13.0 mi
- Cyclops Skull Arch: 12.5 mi
- Boot Arch: 12.6 mi
- Chicken Ranch: 12.7 mi
- Man of Steel (movie site): 12.9 mi
- Iron Man (movie site): 13.2 mi
- Donald Downs Plaque: 1.7 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 5.0 mi
- Manzanar Cemetery Monument: 10.2 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 10.7 mi
- Camouflage Net Factory: 10.9 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 10.2 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 10.3 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 10.4 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 10.6 mi
- Mist Falls: 13.8 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 9.4 mi
- Paul's Paradise: 13.8 mi
- Southern Blonde Rock: 15.0 mi
- Chocolate Block: 15.1 mi
- Tootsie Pop Tower: 15.1 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 10.3 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 10.4 mi
- Japanese Garden: 10.4 mi
- Rose Garden: 10.5 mi
- Kado's Garden: 10.5 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 12.4 mi
- Lathe Arch: 13.5 mi
- Mobius Arch: 13.5 mi
- Heart Arch: 13.5 mi
- Hitching Post Arch: 14.7 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 10.4 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 10.5 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 11.0 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 16.8 mi
- Museum of Western Film History: 17.1 mi
- Merritt Park: 10.4 mi
- Independence Park: 10.5 mi
- Dehy Park: 10.7 mi
- Spainhower Park: 16.7 mi
- Diaz Lake Recreation Area: 18.6 mi
- Kearsarge: 7.7 mi
- San Carlos: 14.0 mi
- Bend City: 14.4 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 9.7 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 23.3 mi
- Paiute Mural: 10.5 mi
- Miss Alabama: 15.3 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 11.3 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 18.0 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 15.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.2 miles of Mount Keith. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Whitney | SSE 161° | 4,419.6 m | 8.9 mi |
| Mount Williamson | SSE 150° | 4,383 m | 3.5 mi |
| Keeler Needle | SSE 162° | 4,361.2 m | 9.1 mi |
| Crooks Peak | SSE 161° | 4,341.7 m | 9.2 mi |
| Mount Russell | SSE 159° | 4,296 m | 8.1 mi |
| Mount Tyndall | S 174° | 4,275 m | 3.1 mi |
| Mount Barnard | SSE 166° | 4,266 m | 5.1 mi |
| Mount Stanford | W 275° | 4,260.2 m | 2.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:31 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:38 | 20:16 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:01 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 10 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 262096 — Mount Keith, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358798387
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