Rattlesnake Mountain
Rattlesnake Mountain rises to 1,076 m in Washington. Lookout Summit stands 1,106 m to the west-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Doke Spring, a spring 2.5 miles away. 28 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Rattlesnake Mountain (Native American name Lalíik meaning "land above the water") is a 3,531 ft (1,060 m) windswept treeless ridge overlooking the Hanford nuclear site. Parts of the western slope are privately owned ranchland, while the eastern slope is under the federal protection of the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve, a unit of the Hanford Reach National Monument, managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The mountain is the second highest point in Benton County, with its neighbor Lookout Summit surpassing it by only 98 ft (30 m). Rattlesnake Mountain is notable for its high wind speeds, with the highest recorded being around 150 mph (241 kilometers per hour).
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Wikidata Q7296010, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,076 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Legion Park: 10.5 mi
- Archie Borden Park: 11.1 mi
- Field of Dreams Community Park: 11.2 mi
- Botaka Park: 11.5 mi
- Benton City Community Park: 11.5 mi
- Goose Egg Hill: 6.2 mi
- Sagebrush Ridge: 8.4 mi
- Royer Hill: 8.8 mi
- The Horn: 8.9 mi
- Red Mountain: 11.1 mi
- Cougar Oil: 12.2 mi
- Neptune Orbital Marker: 14.2 mi
- Saturn: 16.8 mi
- Big World: 17.0 mi
- Complexity of Youth: 17.2 mi
- Horn Rapids County Park: 8.3 mi
- Riverfront Park: 11.6 mi
- Horn Rapids Natural Open Space: 14.6 mi
- Paul Keith Wetland Reserve: 15.0 mi
- Tapteal Bend: 15.3 mi
- IEEE Commemoration Plaque: 10.3 mi
- APS Commemoration Plaque: 10.4 mi
- Uranus: 11.4 mi
- McBee Grade B: 12.0 mi
- The Final Tribute: 14.6 mi
- Doke Spring: 2.5 mi
- Benson Spring: 3.7 mi
- Katie Fleck Spring: 5.2 mi
- Upper Snively Spring: 5.4 mi
- Snively Spring: 5.8 mi
- NSF LIGO - Exploration Center: 10.5 mi
- B Reactor Building: 15.6 mi
- Prosser Historical Museum: 15.8 mi
- Hanford History Project Storage & Archives: 16.8 mi
- Grandview Museum: 17.3 mi
- Harold E Willmsen Memorial Garden: 12.2 mi
- WSU Welcome Garden: 17.5 mi
- Prayer Gardens: 20.1 mi
- Venus Community Gardens: 21.0 mi
- Queen of Spades Garden Club Memorial Arboretum: 22.2 mi
- Gravity Hill: 6.2 mi
- USS Triton Submarine: 16.8 mi
- Country Park Event Center & Fair Grounds: 17.8 mi
- Max Air Trampoline Park: 22.6 mi
- Hanford: 16.2 mi
- Haven: 17.2 mi
- White Bluffs: 18.9 mi
- Prosser Rest Area: 15.4 mi
- Vernita Safety Rest Area: 17.0 mi
- Carbody Beach: 16.7 mi
- White Bluffs: 20.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rattlesnake Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lookout Summit | WNW 285° | 1,106 m | 11.2 mi |
| Cairn Hope Peak | NW 306° | 1,017 m | 21.5 mi |
| High Top | WNW 283° | 913 m | 23.7 mi |
| Emerson Nipple | NW 320° | 675 m | 17.9 mi |
| Chandler Butte | SSE 168° | 622 m | 11.2 mi |
| Gibbon | SSW 195° | 565 m | 13.9 mi |
| Dead Dog Launch | SSE 157° | 556 m | 12.5 mi |
| Sagebrush Ridge | SW 227° | 508 m | 8.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:31 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:07 | 20:08 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:18 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 15:24 | 16:15 |
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 | 34 | 38 | 45 | 52 | 61 | 67 | 75 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 41 | 33 |
| Precip in | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Prosser, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/7476249489
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