Rainbow Mountain
Rainbow Mountain rises to 2,301 m in California. Mount Shasta stands 4,322 m to the west-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Dry Creek Peak, a peak 1.2 miles away.
The story
Rainbow Mountain is a stratovolcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. It is located between Mount Shasta and the Medicine Lake Volcano, consisting of andesitic and dacitic rocks that were produced during the Early Pleistocene subepoch. Its last known eruption is also of Pleistocene age.
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Wikidata Q48810210, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2301 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Dry Creek Peak: 1.2 mi
- Haight Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Trout Creek Butte: 4.1 mi
- Watakma Butte: 4.2 mi
- Fons Butte: 4.7 mi
- Peaceful Warrior: 15.0 mi
- Those Left Behind: 15.0 mi
- Greatest Generation: 15.1 mi
- POW - MIA: 15.1 mi
- Coming Home: 15.1 mi
- Ash Creek Falls: 10.5 mi
- Mud Creek Falls: 12.3 mi
- Coquette Falls: 13.5 mi
- Whitney Falls: 14.7 mi
- Middle Falls: 16.1 mi
- Deer Mountain Snowmobile Park: 11.4 mi
- Hoo Hoo Park: 17.5 mi
- Shastice Park: 20.7 mi
- Hoy Park: 21.3 mi
- Mount Shasta City Park: 21.6 mi
- Upper Falls Day Use Area: 16.5 mi
- Lakin Dam: 16.9 mi
- Lower Falls Day Use Area: 17.0 mi
- Bigalow Bridge Day Use Area: 17.1 mi
- Cougar Park Picnic Area: 22.4 mi
- Hot LZ Memorial Wall: 15.0 mi
- Living Memorial Sculpture Garden: 15.0 mi
- Everett Memorial: 18.1 mi
- Old fire lookout foundation: 21.6 mi
- Monroe Memorial: 21.8 mi
- Panther Springs: 14.8 mi
- Deer Springs: 20.6 mi
- Big Springs: 21.7 mi
- Dad Lofton Spring: 22.8 mi
- Heritage Junction Museum: 17.9 mi
- Weed Museum: 22.4 mi
- Sisson Museum: 22.4 mi
- Siskiyou Arts Museum: 24.5 mi
- Red Banks: 13.6 mi
- Red Banks: 13.7 mi
- Freudian System Cave: 15.2 mi
- 1727 Class M6: 23.9 mi
- Sulphur Springs: 13.2 mi
- Grass Lake Rest Area: 16.0 mi
- Sisson Meadow: 21.3 mi
- Lake Siskiyou Beach: 24.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.2 miles of Rainbow Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Shasta | WSW 250° | 4,321.8 m | 13.1 mi |
| Misery Hill | WSW 249° | 4,206.2 m | 13.4 mi |
| Thumb Rock | WSW 247° | 3,938.9 m | 13.5 mi |
| Shastina | WSW 252° | 3,758.2 m | 14.5 mi |
| Shastina | WSW 252° | 3,758.2 m | 14.5 mi |
| Shastarama Point | WSW 244° | 3,393.9 m | 13.8 mi |
| Casaval Ridge | WSW 247° | 3,187.9 m | 14.8 mi |
| Green Butte | WSW 241° | 2,802 m | 14.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:44 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 20:04 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 15:57 | 16:42 |
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 | 36 | 38 | 41 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 70 | 68 | 62 | 52 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 5.6 | 10.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mccloud, 18 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 265146 — Rainbow Mountain, Siskiyou County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358799286
Day trips start here
- McCloud · 18 mi
- Mount Shasta · 21 mi
- Weed · 22 mi
- Dunsmuir · 25 mi
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