Mount Lowe
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Mount Lowe rises to 1,699 m in California. Twin Peaks stands 2,365 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Ye Alpine Tavern, a historic site 0.4 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 6.4 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Mount Lowe is a mountain on the southern fold of the San Gabriel Mountains. Originally named Oak Mountain, it was renamed for Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, who is credited for being the first person to set foot on and plant the American flag at its peak, and who built the Mount Lowe Railway to its foot in 1896. The record of the naming was made official by Andrew McNally, the famous Chicago map printer and summertime resident of Altadena, who promised to print "Mount Lowe" on all his maps. Mt. Lowe was established as an alternate route for the Mount Lowe Railway when attempts to procure rights of way to the more prominent Mount Wilson had failed. A number of trails stem from it due to the Mount Lowe Tavern which was built at Crystal Springs below the summit and operated from 1895 to 1936. One of the historic trails was the "Mount Lowe Eight" which was a mule ride attraction of the hotel that made a figure eight shaped route starting at the Tavern, ascending the summit of Mt. Lowe, returning to the Tavern, and crisscrossing to a trail that headed down Castle Canyon. From there the trail passed down to the Echo Mountain resort and ascended on the return to the Tavern. Mount Lowe was the upper terminus of the Alpine Division of the Mount Lowe Railway originally incorporated by Professor Lowe as the Pasadena and Mt. Wilson Railroad Co. Mt. Lowe is approachable from Echo Mountain or Chaney trail via a fire road which was graded over the old railway right-of-way.
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Wikidata Q6921904, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,699 m
How to reach it
- 6.4 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ye Alpine Tavern: 0.4 mi
- Mt Lowe Observatory Ruins: 1.5 mi
- Resevoir: 1.6 mi
- Echo Mountain House: 1.6 mi
- Mount Lowe Railway Historical Marker: 1.6 mi
- Charles S. Farnsworth Park: 2.7 mi
- Mount Lowe Park: 2.7 mi
- Robert M McCurdy Nature Center: 3.8 mi
- Charles White Park: 4.0 mi
- Washington Park: 4.7 mi
- Mount Wilson Observatory Museum: 2.7 mi
- JPL Building 186 (Theodore von Kármán Museum and Auditorium): 4.6 mi
- Lizzies Trail Inn: 5.4 mi
- Richardson House: 5.4 mi
- Kidspace Children's Museum: 6.2 mi
- Mount Markham: 0.5 mi
- San Gabriel Peak: 0.9 mi
- Mount Disappointment: 1.0 mi
- Muir Peak: 1.1 mi
- Occidental Peak: 1.3 mi
- Altadena Community Garden: 3.7 mi
- Marcy's Vegetable Garden: 4.1 mi
- Marcy's Garden: 4.1 mi
- Bev's Vegetable Garden: 4.1 mi
- Bev's Native Garden: 4.1 mi
- Unincorporated Mural: 3.8 mi
- Williamson Gallery: 6.3 mi
- Student Gallery: 6.3 mi
- Pan: 7.1 mi
- Lion Dogs: 7.1 mi
- Walsh Home (Beverly Hills 90210): 2.9 mi
- Dilan's Home (Beverly Hills 90210): 2.9 mi
- Wisteria Vine, Worlds Largest Blossoming Plant: 5.0 mi
- Sierra Madre Memorial Cannon: 5.6 mi
- Boone Sculpture Garden: 6.0 mi
- Rubio Canyon: 2.2 mi
- The Cobb Estate: 2.3 mi
- LA County Fire Open Space: 2.5 mi
- Casa Del Caballero: 2.5 mi
- Andrea Wilson Triangle: 3.0 mi
- Red Box Picnic Area: 1.9 mi
- Switzer Picnic Area: 3.3 mi
- Paul Little: 4.3 mi
- Hidden Springs: 6.1 mi
- Arcadia Wilderness Park: 6.2 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 6.4 mi
- Silk Tassel Spring: 6.4 mi
- Doe Spring: 7.7 mi
- Baughman Spring: 8.6 mi
- Deer Spring: 10.9 mi
- Leontine Falls: 1.6 mi
- Thalehaha Falls: 1.7 mi
- Roaring Rift Falls: 1.7 mi
- Suspended Boulder Falls: 1.7 mi
- Grand Chasm Falls: 1.7 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 3.3 mi
- Spa Palace: 15.3 mi
- Llano Del Rio: 24.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Lowe. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Peaks | ENE 60° | 2,365 m | 11.8 mi |
| Pacifico Mountain | NNE 21° | 2,165 m | 11.2 mi |
| Granite Mountain | NNE 12° | 1,998 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Gleason | NNW 338° | 1,990 m | 10.8 mi |
| Roundtop | NNE 14° | 1,908 m | 8.6 mi |
| Mount Hillyer | NNE 32° | 1,881 m | 9.6 mi |
| Strawberry Peak | NNW 347° | 1,879 m | 3.7 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | NNE 27° | 1,878 m | 0.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:09 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 46 | 49 | 52 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 75 | 70 | 62 | 53 | 46 |
| Precip in | 7.7 | 8.3 | 5.1 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MT Wilson CBS, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 245242 — Mount Lowe, Los Angeles County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358788235
Day trips start here
- La Cañada Flintridge · 5 mi
- Pasadena · 5 mi
- Angeles National Forest · 7 mi
- Arcadia · 8 mi
- Monrovia · 8 mi
- San Marino · 8 mi
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