Mount Maddox
Mount Maddox rises to 2,946 m in California. Big Bird Peak stands 3,536 m to the southeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Mitchell Peak, a peak 1.8 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q49053488, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,946 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mitchell Peak: 1.8 mi
- Shell Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Lookout Peak: 3.6 mi
- Kettle Peak: 3.8 mi
- Ball Dome: 3.9 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 6.5 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 10.1 mi
- Crystal Cave: 10.5 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 10.6 mi
- McKinley Tree: 10.7 mi
- Big Springs: 10.2 mi
- Hidden Spring: 10.7 mi
- Wall Spring: 12.1 mi
- Slide Spring: 12.4 mi
- Granite Spring: 12.8 mi
- Grizzly Falls: 5.3 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 7.9 mi
- Tokopah Falls: 8.6 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 12.0 mi
- Marble Falls: 12.3 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 3.5 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 4.0 mi
- Stephen Mather memorial plaque: 12.1 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 12.5 mi
- Old Ranger Station: 12.6 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 5.2 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 6.2 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 8.0 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 10.7 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 12.3 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 6.9 mi
- Valhalla: 14.0 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 14.7 mi
- Muro Blanco: 17.7 mi
- Great Cliffs: 21.5 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 8.8 mi
- Teakettle Experiment Area: 22.9 mi
- Cobble Knoll Recreation Area: 23.8 mi
- Slick Rock Recreation Area: 24.2 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 9.5 mi
- Jumping Rock: 9.9 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 11.4 mi
- Three Rivers Historical Museum: 21.1 mi
- Homer Ranch Preserve: 23.6 mi
- Kearsarge: 24.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.1 miles of Mount Maddox. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bird Peak | SE 135° | 3,536 m | 11.2 mi |
| Kennedy Mountain | NNE 23° | 3,474 m | 11.3 mi |
| Winter Alta | SSE 150° | 3,453 m | 10.3 mi |
| Alta Peak | SSE 154° | 3,437 m | 10.5 mi |
| Palmer Mountain | E 82° | 3,430 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Silliman | SSE 154° | 3,397 m | 6.4 mi |
| Hogback Peak | N 11° | 3,376 m | 10.5 mi |
| Mount Harrington | N 4° | 3,360 m | 9.9 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 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:03 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1659033 — Mount Maddox, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358806806
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