Piper Peak
Piper Peak rises to 2,465 m in California. North Palisade stands 4,343 m to the west-southwest, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Pine Spring, a spring 1.1 miles away.
The story
Mountain in California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49062367, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,465 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugarloaf: 3.2 mi
- Round Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Kid Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Mount Alice: 5.1 mi
- Crater Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 1.1 mi
- Grouse Spring: 3.7 mi
- Wilkerson Springs: 8.1 mi
- Fish Springs: 8.2 mi
- Uhlmeyer Spring: 8.3 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 5.2 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 5.4 mi
- Starlite Playground and Park: 14.2 mi
- Izaak Walton Park: 14.3 mi
- Bulpitt Park: 14.3 mi
- First Falls: 3.9 mi
- Second Falls: 4.2 mi
- Triple Falls: 15.3 mi
- Upper Evolution Creek Falls: 22.4 mi
- Lower Evolution Creek Falls: 22.5 mi
- Windy Cliff: 14.6 mi
- Great Cliffs: 15.4 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 18.0 mi
- Muro Blanco: 18.8 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 22.3 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 9.6 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 9.9 mi
- Piñyon Picnic Area Nature Trail: 15.6 mi
- Schulman Grove Picnic Area: 19.3 mi
- Rock Monster: 13.2 mi
- Methuselah: 19.4 mi
- John Muir Rock: 24.5 mi
- Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center: 14.1 mi
- American Mule Museum: 14.4 mi
- Laws Railroad Museum: 16.6 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 16.8 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 23.9 mi
- Bishop Community Garden: 14.3 mi
- Kearsarge: 24.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.0 miles of Piper Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Palisade | WSW 238° | 4,343 m | 8.4 mi |
| Starlight Peak | WSW 238° | 4,324 m | 8.4 mi |
| Mount Sill | SW 236° | 4,316 m | 7.8 mi |
| Polemonium Peak | WSW 237° | 4,298 m | 8.3 mi |
| Middle Palisade | SW 217° | 4,278 m | 7.7 mi |
| Split Mountain | SSW 192° | 4,269 m | 9.8 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | WSW 240° | 4,268 m | 8.4 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | SW 216° | 4,259 m | 7.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:31 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:00 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 43 | 49 | 55 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bishop AP, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 264813 — Piper Peak, Inyo County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358799145
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