Quartz Mountain
Quartz Mountain rises to 425 m in California. Devils Nose stands 1,445 m to the east, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Bunker Hill, a peak 1.6 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 28 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Amador County, California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49066057, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 425 m
How to reach it
- 27.9 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Bunker Hill: 1.6 mi
- Trembath Mountain: 2.8 mi
- Sugarloaf Peak: 3.9 mi
- Rocky Point: 4.7 mi
- Bisbee Peak: 5.3 mi
- Rock Monument: 2.5 mi
- Rancheria Creek Park: 2.5 mi
- Main Street Park: 3.1 mi
- Minnie Provis Park: 3.8 mi
- Miners Bend Park: 4.0 mi
- Amador Whitney Museum: 2.1 mi
- Monteverde Store Museum: 3.7 mi
- Knight Foundry: 3.7 mi
- Chew Kee Store: 4.8 mi
- Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 5.7 mi
- Keystone Mine: 2.1 mi
- Massa Tunnel: 6.0 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 1: 6.0 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 2: 6.0 mi
- Flume Tressel Piers: 6.0 mi
- Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 2.0 mi
- The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 2.3 mi
- Sutter Gold Mine: 2.5 mi
- Kennedy Gold Mine: 5.7 mi
- Black Chasm Cavern: 10.0 mi
- Spanish Spring: 6.9 mi
- Marble Springs: 14.3 mi
- Canzatti Spring: 15.2 mi
- Liddicoat Spring: 16.1 mi
- Sugar Spring: 21.8 mi
- Middle Bar: 10.8 mi
- Logtown: 13.1 mi
- Michigan Bar: 13.2 mi
- Mormon Island: 24.3 mi
- A Picnic Area: 17.2 mi
- B Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
- C Picnic Area: 17.4 mi
- Mormon Island Wetlands Natural Preserve: 23.9 mi
- Natomas Station Wildlife Area: 24.3 mi
- Finnon Recreation Area: 24.4 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 19.4 mi
- Sherwood Demonstration Garden: 19.6 mi
- Pecker Falls: 19.6 mi
- Rock Creek: 24.2 mi
- Mokelumne Beach: 22.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.9 miles of Quartz Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devils Nose | E 87° | 1,445 m | 21.1 mi |
| Big Mountain | ENE 61° | 1,395 m | 18.8 mi |
| Big Butte | NE 40° | 1,306 m | 20.8 mi |
| Hope Mountain | NE 42° | 1,281 m | 21.7 mi |
| Middle Butte | NE 41° | 1,260 m | 20.7 mi |
| Bald Mountain | E 95° | 1,247 m | 19.9 mi |
| Sunday Ridge | NE 46° | 1,233 m | 20.4 mi |
| Mount Crossman | E 85° | 1,184 m | 15.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:41 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:52 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 16:05 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 50 | 52 | 56 | 63 | 71 | 78 | 77 | 73 | 65 | 54 | 47 |
| Precip in | 6.1 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutter Hill CDF, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1659446 — Quartz Mountain, Amador County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358807137
Day trips start here
- Placerville · 20 mi
- El Dorado Hills · 22 mi
- Coloma · 25 mi
- Folsom · 25 mi
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