Mount Price
Mount Price rises to 3,040 m in California. Stevens Peak stands 3,061 m to the southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Agassiz, a peak 0.5 miles away. Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive passes 14 miles off.
The story
Mount Price is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada at the southern end of the Crystal Range, and southwest of Lake Tahoe. The summit is located in the Desolation Wilderness and the El Dorado County, California.
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Wikidata Q6923042, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3040 m
How to reach it
- 14.2 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 24.1 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
- 28.8 mi off the Mount Rose Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Cave Rock · 18 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 18 mi
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Agassiz: 0.5 mi
- Little Pyramid: 1.6 mi
- Pyramid Peak: 1.6 mi
- Blue Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Jacks Peak: 2.1 mi
- Fallen Leaf Recreation Center: 5.7 mi
- Tahoe Paradise Park: 8.0 mi
- Lake Valley State Recreation Area: 8.6 mi
- Bonanza Community Park: 9.7 mi
- Thomas F Regan Memorial City Beach: 11.6 mi
- Glen Alpine Spring: 4.2 mi
- Granite Spring: 10.5 mi
- Chicken Hawk Spring: 14.5 mi
- Chicken Hawk Spring: 14.5 mi
- Jim Quinn Spring: 14.8 mi
- Glen Alpine Resort: 4.3 mi
- Fannette Island Tea House: 7.4 mi
- Elkus: 10.4 mi
- Stephen Downey: 12.1 mi
- Albert Givan: 14.4 mi
- Andrews Meadows: 7.9 mi
- Washoe Meadows State Park: 8.1 mi
- Linder Grove: 8.6 mi
- Johnson Meadow: 10.5 mi
- Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park: 12.5 mi
- Lovers Leap: 4.9 mi
- Cathedral Peak: 5.1 mi
- Tallac Point: 8.4 mi
- Sugar Bun: 9.6 mi
- Detox Wall: 10.1 mi
- Kiva Beach: 8.6 mi
- Pope Beach: 9.4 mi
- Lester Beach: 10.2 mi
- El Dorado Beach: 12.5 mi
- Lakeside Beach: 13.8 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 3.6 mi
- Modjeska Falls: 4.6 mi
- Cascade Falls: 6.3 mi
- Upper Eagle Falls: 6.8 mi
- Lower Eagle Falls: 7.0 mi
- Baldwin Home: 8.6 mi
- Lake Tahoe Historic Society Museum: 11.9 mi
- Genoa Courthouse Museum: 20.2 mi
- Gatekeeper's Museum: 21.0 mi
- Watson Cabin: 21.3 mi
- Eagle Falls Picnic Area: 6.9 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 12.2 mi
- Sandy Cove Picnic Area: 14.0 mi
- Cleveland Corral: 14.6 mi
- Shot Rock Vista Picnic Area: 16.6 mi
- Tallac Historic Site: 8.6 mi
- Balancing Rock: 9.4 mi
- Rubicon Point Light: 10.1 mi
- Round Hill Pines Beach Resort: 14.8 mi
- M. S. Dixie II Terminal: 15.6 mi
- St Theresa: 11.9 mi
- The Big Tree: 21.3 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 8.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.7 miles of Mount Price. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens Peak | SE 131° | 3,061 m | 13.7 mi |
| Pyramid Peak | SE 145° | 3,042.818 m | 1.6 mi |
| Dicks Peak | NNE 27° | 3,042 m | 2.8 mi |
| Agassiz | SSE 152° | 3,038 m | 0.5 mi |
| Trimmer Peak | E 88° | 3,016 m | 13.6 mi |
| Jacks Peak | NNE 31° | 3,002 m | 2.1 mi |
| Mount Tallac | NE 54° | 2,967 m | 5.0 mi |
| Little Round Top | SE 142° | 2,924 m | 10.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:01 | 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 | 31 | 31 | 36 | 40 | 48 | 55 | 62 | 60 | 54 | 46 | 37 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — S Lake Tahoe AP, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 265037 — Mount Price, El Dorado County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358799237
Day trips start here
- Bliss State Park · 9 mi
- Homewood · 15 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 17 mi
- Tahoe City · 21 mi
- Olympic Valley · 23 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 27 mi
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