Needle Point
Needle Point rises to 2,129 m in California. Sierra Buttes stands 2,617 m to the southeast, 9.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Rattlesnake Peak, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
Mountain in California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49056566, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,129 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Rattlesnake Peak: 0.6 mi
- Tennessee Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Bunker Hill: 2.2 mi
- Cloud Splitter: 2.2 mi
- Gibraltar: 2.6 mi
- Lake Basin Recreation Area: 7.1 mi
- Sierra City Community Center: 11.5 mi
- Sierra City Community Park: 11.6 mi
- Kentucky Mine Historic Park: 11.7 mi
- Middle Fork Feather Wild and Scenic River: 12.5 mi
- Ruby Bluff: 11.7 mi
- Limestone Point: 13.4 mi
- Bell Point: 14.2 mi
- Independence Point: 14.7 mi
- Rocky Point: 15.0 mi
- Tin Cup Diggins Picnic Area: 8.3 mi
- Sand Pond Picnic Site: 10.1 mi
- Loganville Scenic Highway Center Picnic Site: 10.5 mi
- Jackson Creek Picnic Ground: 13.3 mi
- Convict Flat Picnic Site: 13.5 mi
- Mammoth Mill: 7.3 mi
- Downie Chapter 1249: 8.2 mi
- Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout: 9.7 mi
- Sierra County Chinese Laborer Memorial: 11.7 mi
- North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company, California Registered Historical Landmark No. 852: 22.1 mi
- Plumas-Eureka State Park Museum: 7.6 mi
- Downieville Museum: 8.2 mi
- Frank C. Reilly Museum: 10.0 mi
- Kentucky Mine Historic Park and Museum: 11.7 mi
- Western Pacific Railroad Museum: 19.1 mi
- Switchback spring: 11.4 mi
- Upper Derbec Spring: 20.0 mi
- Derbec Spring: 20.2 mi
- Willow Spring: 20.3 mi
- Holden Spring: 21.3 mi
- Fern Falls: 7.3 mi
- Frazier Falls: 8.4 mi
- Loves Falls: 12.1 mi
- Hackmans Falls: 12.1 mi
- Jamison: 9.1 mi
- North Bloomfield: 22.0 mi
- Massack Rest Area: 17.1 mi
- L.T.Davis Rest Area: 22.7 mi
- Missouri Bar: 23.4 mi
- Webber Lake: 24.1 mi
- Marble Hot Springs: 23.8 mi
- Campbell Hot Springs: 24.7 mi
- Coppins Meadow: 23.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.3 miles of Needle Point. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Buttes | SE 126° | 2,617 m | 9.8 mi |
| Haskell Peak | E 94° | 2,453 m | 13.0 mi |
| Mount Elwell | ENE 69° | 2,361 m | 6.0 mi |
| Mount Fillmore | NW 321° | 2,344 m | 4.8 mi |
| Pilot Peak | NNW 332° | 2,271 m | 8.3 mi |
| Deadman Peak | ESE 108° | 2,261 m | 13.5 mi |
| Mount Washington | NE 53° | 2,236 m | 5.5 mi |
| Blue Nose Mountain | N 353° | 2,217 m | 6.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:55 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 16:00 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 42 | 45 | 50 | 57 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 65 | 55 | 44 | 38 |
| Precip in | 11.3 | 10.7 | 10.0 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 6.8 | 11.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Downieville, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 264021 — Needle Point, Sierra County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358798925
Day trips start here
- Sierra County · 17 mi
- Loyalton · 29 mi
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