Ring Mountain
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Ring Mountain rises to 185 m in California. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the west-northwest, 5.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away.
The story
Ring Mountain is an elevated landform on the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, California. This mountain was named for George E. Ring, who served as a Marin County Supervisor from 1895 to 1903. A number of rare and endangered plant species inhabit Ring Mountain. The mountain's twin summits consist of serpentinite, a rock which is very high in magnesium, producing soils of unusual chemistry (serpentine soil). The landscape is strewn with many sizable boulders which exhibit a variety of lithologies including high-pressure metamorphic rocks of amphibolite, blueschist, greenschist, and eclogite grade. Native American pecked curvilinear nucleated petroglyphs created by the Coast Miwok people are also found here.
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Wikidata Q7334722, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 185 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Granada Park: 0.9 mi
- Blackie's Pasture: 1.0 mi
- San Clemente Park: 1.1 mi
- McKegney Field: 1.2 mi
- Parkview Circle Park: 1.3 mi
- Blackie Horse Statue: 1.0 mi
- Tiburon Portugese Mural Wall: 1.2 mi
- Coming About: 3.0 mi
- Tamalpais Maiden: 3.3 mi
- Close to the Wind: 3.4 mi
- Kite Hill: 2.5 mi
- Palm Hill: 2.8 mi
- Christmas Tree Hill: 2.8 mi
- Bon Air Hill: 3.6 mi
- King Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Railroad Ferry Museum: 3.2 mi
- Marinship Exhibit: 3.2 mi
- Bay Model Visitor Center: 3.2 mi
- IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center: 3.4 mi
- Detention Barracks Museum: 4.3 mi
- Canal Community Garden: 3.6 mi
- Lauren Place: 4.9 mi
- Terra Linda Community Garden: 7.0 mi
- Succulent Garden: 7.4 mi
- Compton Community Garden: 8.0 mi
- The Rosebowl: 3.1 mi
- Lyford's Stone Tower: 3.2 mi
- Old Sawmill: 3.7 mi
- Ayala Cove: 4.0 mi
- Camp Reynolds (West Garrison): 4.2 mi
- Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary: 1.3 mi
- Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary: 1.4 mi
- Tiburon Ridge Open Space Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Aramburu Island: 1.6 mi
- Killdeer Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Bicentennial Campground picnic area: 6.3 mi
- Miwok Meadows Day-Use Area: 6.4 mi
- China Camp Point: 6.5 mi
- Bullhead Flat: 6.6 mi
- Bramble Beach: 2.0 mi
- San Quentin Beach: 2.2 mi
- Schoonmaker Beach: 3.2 mi
- Swede's Beach: 4.3 mi
- Perles Beach: 4.6 mi
- Slide House: 2.7 mi
- Giant Picnic Table: 2.7 mi
- Brig Matthew Turner: 3.1 mi
- Historic Bake House: 4.3 mi
- Redwood Tree Slice: 4.9 mi
- Dawn Falls: 4.6 mi
- Kent Falls: 5.3 mi
- Laurel Dell Falls: 7.9 mi
- Midway Falls: 8.2 mi
- Helen Markt Falls: 8.3 mi
- Old Spring: 4.7 mi
- Colier Spring: 6.1 mi
- Worn Springs: 6.2 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 6.5 mi
- Rock Springs: 6.9 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 5.1 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 5.9 mi
- Rock Fort: 6.9 mi
- Vent 5: 7.6 mi
- Aramai Point: 21.0 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 6.6 mi
- Temple: 18.0 mi
- Keyhole: 18.5 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 6.9 mi
- Quarters A: 9.7 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 9.8 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 8.1 mi
- Rest Stop: 23.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.9 miles of Ring Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | WNW 285° | 784 m | 5.2 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | W 279° | 778 m | 6.1 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | WNW 282° | 744 m | 5.7 mi |
| Ballou Point | W 271° | 612 m | 7.6 mi |
| Twin Knolls | W 276° | 597 m | 7.9 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | W 274° | 527 m | 5.9 mi |
| Bare Knoll | W 265° | 478 m | 7.2 mi |
| Wooded Knoll | W 265° | 465 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:57 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 52 | 55 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 67 | 63 | 55 | 49 |
| Precip in | 8.8 | 8.7 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 4.6 | 9.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kentfield, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358833261
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