Picket Guard Peak
Picket Guard Peak rises to 3,744 m in California. Mount Tyndall stands 4,275 m to the northeast, 9.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Upper Picket Creek Falls, a waterfall 1.3 miles away.
The story
Picket Guard Peak is a 12,302-foot-elevation (3,750-meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Tulare County, California, United States. It is situated in Sequoia National Park, two miles southwest of Kern Point, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) north of Mount Kaweah, and three miles east of the junction of Kaweah Peaks Ridge with Great Western Divide. Picket Guard Peak ranks as the 345th-highest summit in California, and topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 4,265 feet (1,300 meters) above Kern Canyon in approximately three miles.
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Wikidata Q49061038, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3744 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Kern Point: 2.1 mi
- Kaweah Queen: 2.5 mi
- Lawson Peak: 2.6 mi
- Koontz Pinnacle: 2.9 mi
- Pyramidal Pinnacle: 2.9 mi
- Tharp's Log: 15.0 mi
- Cleveland Tree: 15.3 mi
- Chimney Tree: 15.3 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 15.4 mi
- Congress Group: 15.4 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 5.2 mi
- Donald Downs Plaque: 9.7 mi
- Empire Mill Ruins: 10.7 mi
- Crabtree Cabin: 12.5 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 12.8 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 1.3 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 1.6 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 5.0 mi
- Chagoopa Falls: 8.1 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 8.5 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 10.6 mi
- Cold Spring: 11.6 mi
- Soda Spring: 11.8 mi
- Soda Spring: 16.4 mi
- Wall Spring: 16.7 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 20.2 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 20.3 mi
- Kado's Garden: 20.3 mi
- Japanese Garden: 20.4 mi
- Rose Garden: 20.4 mi
- Valhalla: 6.3 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 12.3 mi
- Window Cliffs: 13.8 mi
- Paul's Paradise: 19.4 mi
- Southern Blonde Rock: 19.8 mi
- Natural Arch: 15.9 mi
- Natural Bridge: 16.0 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 17.7 mi
- Lathe Arch: 19.4 mi
- Mobius Arch: 19.4 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 12.9 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 16.2 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 17.0 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 17.6 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 20.8 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 16.6 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 20.8 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 21.5 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 21.6 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 22.8 mi
- Merritt Park: 20.4 mi
- Independence Park: 21.6 mi
- Dehy Park: 21.8 mi
- Spainhower Park: 22.7 mi
- Diaz Lake Recreation Area: 23.2 mi
- Kearsarge: 18.1 mi
- San Carlos: 24.8 mi
- Paiute Mural: 20.4 mi
- Miss Alabama: 20.8 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 7.8 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 22.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Picket Guard Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tyndall | NE 54° | 4,275 m | 9.3 mi |
| Mount Barnard | ENE 67° | 4,266 m | 9.1 mi |
| Mount Stanford | NNE 26° | 4,260.2 m | 9.8 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | NNE 26° | 4,254.4 m | 9.7 mi |
| Mount Morgenson | E 84° | 4,244 m | 9.7 mi |
| Caltech Peak | NNE 30° | 4,216.5 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mount Kaweah | S 185° | 4,205 m | 3.5 mi |
| Red Kaweah | SW 216° | 4,185 m | 3.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:38 | 20:16 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 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 Sequoia National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 253752 — Picket Guard Peak, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358795611
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