Rock Creek Butte
Rock Creek Butte rises to 1,579 m in California. Medicine Mountain stands 2,083 m to the east, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Dillon Mountain, a peak 3.5 miles away.
The story
Mountain in California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49068847, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,579 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Dillon Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Little Medicine Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Sawtooth Mountain: 6.3 mi
- Pony Peak: 6.3 mi
- Nickowitz Peak: 7.6 mi
- Klamath Tour Thru Tree: 20.2 mi
- Corkscrew Tree: 22.2 mi
- Big Tree: 22.4 mi
- Brotherhood Tree: 23.0 mi
- SkyTrail: 23.0 mi
- Cedar Camp Spring: 10.3 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 18.6 mi
- Buckhorn Spring: 22.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 23.1 mi
- Soft Water Spring: 23.9 mi
- Blue Nose Bluff: 6.0 mi
- Ferry Point: 14.3 mi
- Grant Bluffs: 18.5 mi
- High Bluff: 22.8 mi
- H E Beck Junior Memorial Branch: 16.9 mi
- Yurok Village Discovery Park: 20.7 mi
- Happy Camp River Park: 22.5 mi
- Hidden Beach: 23.9 mi
- Wilson Creek Beach: 24.2 mi
- Gold Bluffs Beach: 24.2 mi
- Ishi Pishi Falls: 13.0 mi
- Wilderness Falls: 17.4 mi
- Fish Lake Campground Day Use Area: 19.0 mi
- Lost Man Creek Picnic Area: 24.3 mi
- Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park: 22.3 mi
- Murrelet State Wilderness: 23.2 mi
- MaryLee Thompson-Smith Commemorative Garden: 23.2 mi
- Trees of Mystery: 23.2 mi
- Caltrans Redwood Bypass: 20.8 mi
- The People's Center: 22.1 mi
- Rotary Memorial Grove: 22.8 mi
- Paul Bunyan and Babe: 23.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.8 miles of Rock Creek Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine Mountain | E 100° | 2,083 m | 16.9 mi |
| Pigeon Roost | E 86° | 1,958 m | 18.2 mi |
| Bear Mountain | N 355° | 1,953 m | 17.9 mi |
| No Mans Mountain | E 90° | 1,900 m | 14.8 mi |
| Boulder Peak | NNE 19° | 1,817 m | 19.6 mi |
| Jedediah Mountain | N 350° | 1,760 m | 15.3 mi |
| Sawtooth Mountain | NW 324° | 1,758 m | 6.3 mi |
| Baldy Peak | NNW 336° | 1,747 m | 10.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:19 | 18:50 | 19:27 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 20:11 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:03 | 18:37 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:39 | 16:04 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 43 | 47 | 51 | 56 | 62 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 69 | 59 | 49 | 43 |
| Precip in | 9.4 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 3.5 | 6.8 | 10.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orleans, 17 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 265497 — Rock Creek Butte, Siskiyou County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358799431
Day trips start here
- Redwood National Park · 20 mi
- Klamath · 21 mi
- Del Norte County · 22 mi
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