Quartz Mountain
Quartz Mountain rises to 746 m in California. Pilot Peak stands 1,826 m to the north-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Telegraph Hill, a peak 2.0 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 14 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Mariposa County, California, United States of America; geonames ID = 5385407.
Wikidata Q49066066, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 746 m
How to reach it
- 14.0 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 16 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Telegraph Hill: 2.0 mi
- Black Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Texas Hill: 4.8 mi
- Fremont Peak: 5.0 mi
- Bullion Mountain: 5.0 mi
- Bagby Recreation Area: 4.7 mi
- Greeley Hill County Park: 9.4 mi
- Midpines Park: 9.8 mi
- Red Cloud: 9.8 mi
- Coulterville Main Street Historic District: 10.2 mi
- Fremont Spring: 4.8 mi
- Morning Star Spring: 6.8 mi
- Barrel Spring: 10.5 mi
- Pilot Peak Spring: 11.6 mi
- Apple Tree Spring: 12.1 mi
- Diana Falls: 8.0 mi
- Little Nellie Falls: 15.7 mi
- Chinquapin Falls: 16.0 mi
- Foresta Falls: 16.2 mi
- Carlon Falls: 16.4 mi
- The Northern Mariposa Country History Center: 10.2 mi
- Mariposa Museum and History Center: 10.3 mi
- California State Mining and Mineral Museum: 12.4 mi
- Hetch Hetchy Railroad Museum: 14.5 mi
- Groveland Museum: 17.8 mi
- Indian Flat Day Use: 11.1 mi
- Red Bud Picnic Area: 12.6 mi
- Remote Camp: 15.9 mi
- Carlon Day Use Area: 16.3 mi
- Moccasin Point: 21.2 mi
- Merced Grove: 14.0 mi
- Hetch Hetchy Railroad Number 6: 14.5 mi
- Yosemite Valley Railroad Caboose Number 15: 14.5 mi
- Tunnel Tree: 16.3 mi
- Valley View Yosemite (Sunset Spot): 21.5 mi
- Fremont’s Fort: 5.1 mi
- September 11, 2001 Memorial: 10.8 mi
- Mt Buckingham School (historic): 13.7 mi
- Miner’s Camp: 15.7 mi
- Tuolumne Gold Dredge: 23.7 mi
- Cat Town: 2.8 mi
- Mount Ophir: 7.8 mi
- Agua Fria: 9.9 mi
- Horseshoe Bend: 10.8 mi
- Fireplace Bluffs: 20.9 mi
- Rockslides: 21.9 mi
- Profile Cliff: 24.8 mi
- The Fissures: 24.9 mi
- Lake Lodge Beach: 17.4 mi
- Pine Mountain Lake Marina Beach: 17.6 mi
- Dunn Court Beach: 17.9 mi
- Dedication Garden: 15.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.0 miles of Quartz Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot Peak | NNE 32° | 1,826 m | 11.1 mi |
| Pinoche Peak | E 88° | 1,754 m | 14.7 mi |
| Brown Peak | E 87° | 1,715 m | 13.2 mi |
| Kirby Peak | ESE 118° | 1,642 m | 15.4 mi |
| Sawmill Mountain | NNE 23° | 1,600 m | 15.1 mi |
| Big Grizzly Mountain | NE 52° | 1,575 m | 10.3 mi |
| Trumbull Peak | ENE 67° | 1,521 m | 10.9 mi |
| Sweetwater Point | ESE 114° | 1,406 m | 9.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:38 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:47 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 16:05 | 16:46 |
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 | 38 | 36 | 38 | 42 | 50 | 60 | 68 | 67 | 62 | 53 | 43 | 37 |
| Precip in | 6.9 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 4.4 | 7.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Yosemite Village 12 W, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358799274
Day trips start here
- Sierra Nevada · 27 mi
- Yosemite National Park · 28 mi
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