North Mountain
North Mountain rises to 2,630 m in California. Mount Brewer stands 4,136 m to the southeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Roaring River Falls, a waterfall 1.7 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q49057390, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,630 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Hutchings: 2.5 mi
- Grand Sentinel: 3.0 mi
- Sentinel Dome: 3.3 mi
- Avalanche Peak: 3.8 mi
- Stag Dome: 4.0 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 14.8 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 16.8 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 17.3 mi
- Congress Group: 17.4 mi
- McKinley Tree: 17.4 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 1.7 mi
- Mist Falls: 4.6 mi
- Grizzly Falls: 6.3 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 9.6 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 9.6 mi
- Tub Springs: 18.3 mi
- Big Springs: 18.5 mi
- Hidden Spring: 18.9 mi
- McGann Springs: 18.9 mi
- Wall Spring: 19.1 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 5.3 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 5.8 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 6.1 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 6.8 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 7.4 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 6.3 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 14.6 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 17.7 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 19.2 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 9.2 mi
- Muro Blanco: 9.4 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 10.4 mi
- Windy Cliff: 14.3 mi
- Great Cliffs: 14.6 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 16.9 mi
- Dehy Park: 23.7 mi
- Independence Park: 24.0 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 18.4 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 23.6 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 23.7 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 15.0 mi
- Jumping Rock: 15.4 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 22.3 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 23.7 mi
- Kearsarge: 16.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.7 miles of North Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Brewer | SE 130° | 4,136 m | 10.5 mi |
| North Guard | SE 128° | 4,058 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Gardiner | E 89° | 3,935 m | 9.5 mi |
| Mount Clarence King | E 79° | 3,932 m | 10.4 mi |
| Mount Farquhar | SE 126° | 3,926 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mount Cotter | E 85° | 3,879 m | 10.5 mi |
| Mount Sheldon | SE 137° | 3,858 m | 10.3 mi |
| State Peak | NNE 28° | 3,840 m | 9.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:02 | 16:42 |
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, 15 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 264230 — North Mountain, Fresno County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358798946
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