Nopah Peak
Nopah Peak rises to 1,943 m in California. Kingston Peak stands 2,235 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Twelvemile Spring, a spring 4.0 miles away. Kyle Canyon Road (State Route 157) passes 29 miles off. 88 named places lie within 25 miles, 19 of them named summits.
The story
Nopah Peak is the highest named mountain in the Nopah Range, a mountain range in Inyo County, California, in the Mojave Desert just west of the state border with Nevada. The peak has an elevation of 6,365 feet (1,940 metres) and a topographic prominence of 628 ft (191 m). It boasts steep escarpments to both east and west, rising more than 3,000 ft (914 m) in approximately 0.75 miles from the desert floor of Chicago Valley to the west and a drop-off almost as steep to the east. While Nopah Peak is the highest named peak in the Nopah Range, the true high point of the range is a point approximately 9 ft (3 m) higher and less than 1 mile south of Nopah Peak. This Nopah Range high point often sees more peak-bagger traffic and attention than Nopah Peak itself, because of its prominence: at 3,565 ft (1,087 m), it is the 27th most-prominent summit in California, and thus included on the Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section (DPS), a list of noteworthy desert peaks. Nopah Peak and most of the Nopah Range lie within the Nopah Range Wilderness, administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). They also form part of the Basin and Range Province, along with neighboring mountains and ranges, such as the Resting Spring Range to the northwest on the other side of Chicago Valley, and the Kingston Range to the southeast.
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Wikidata Q49057194, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1943 m
How to reach it
- 29.0 mi off the Kyle Canyon Road (State Route 157)
88 named places within 25 miles
- Twelvemile Spring: 4.0 mi
- Chappo Spring: 7.6 mi
- Resting Spring: 10.5 mi
- Shoshone Spring: 10.9 mi
- Tecopa Hot Springs: 12.8 mi
- Coast to Coast Radio Station: 8.4 mi
- Coast to Coast Radio Station: 8.4 mi
- Coast to Coast Radio Station: 8.4 mi
- Coast to Coast Radio Station: 8.4 mi
- Coast to Coast Radio Station: 8.4 mi
- Tecopa Hills: 13.3 mi
- High Peak: 16.4 mi
- Tecopa Peak: 16.6 mi
- Brown Peak: 18.1 mi
- Sheephead Mountain: 19.4 mi
- Kellogg Park (In Construction): 10.4 mi
- Shoshone Park: 10.8 mi
- Tecopa Park & Campground: 13.0 mi
- Calvada Eye: 13.5 mi
- Discovery Park: 13.6 mi
- Queho’s grave marker: 12.8 mi
- Cathedral Canyon: 13.0 mi
- Art Bell Memorial Bench: 13.5 mi
- noonday camp - camp millsite: 14.4 mi
- Mabel Mill Site: 15.0 mi
- Shoshone Museum: 10.8 mi
- Pahrump Valley Museum: 14.6 mi
- A Modest Musieum: 16.2 mi
- Tecopa Natural Hot Springs: 12.4 mi
- Manse: 13.9 mi
- The Palisades: 17.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Nopah Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston Peak | SSE 155° | 2,235 m | 22.2 mi |
| Shadow Mountain | NNW 330° | 1,543 m | 19.5 mi |
| Brown Peak | WNW 292° | 1,505 m | 18.1 mi |
| Epaulet Peak | W 263° | 1,455 m | 24.8 mi |
| Epaulet Peak | W 263° | 1,452.7 m | 24.8 mi |
| Ibex Peak | WSW 243° | 1,447 m | 20.9 mi |
| Pupfish Peak | NNW 347° | 1,327.41 m | 24.7 mi |
| Sheephead Mountain | WSW 250° | 1,305 m | 19.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:23 | 18:56 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 19:27 | 20:05 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:09 | 18:43 |
| December solstice | 06:52 | 15:55 | 16:34 |
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 | 43 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 78 | 85 | 83 | 75 | 63 | 50 | 42 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pahrump 4 NW, 17 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/11360427076
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