Rock Mountain
Rock Mountain rises to 867 m in California. Black Point stands 2,465 m to the east-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is San Joaquin River Gorge Management Area, a park 1.9 miles away. 189 named places lie within 25 miles, 58 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49068927, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 867 m
How to reach it
189 named places within 25 miles
- Fowler Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Backbone Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Bug Table: 3.6 mi
- Kennedy Table: 5.2 mi
- Fish Creek Mountain: 5.3 mi
- San Joaquin River Gorge Management Area: 1.9 mi
- San Joaquin River Gorge Special Recreation Management Area: 3.0 mi
- North Fork Recreation Area Memorial Park: 9.1 mi
- Kechaye Cultural Preserve: 10.0 mi
- Shaver Lake Community Park: 11.0 mi
- Exact Center of California: 5.7 mi
- Whites Cabin: 12.9 mi
- Academy: 14.9 mi
- Cottonwood Park Arch: 20.6 mi
- Cottonwood Park Observation Point: 20.7 mi
- Arnold Spring: 7.7 mi
- Cole Spring: 15.5 mi
- Vichy Spring: 15.6 mi
- Daulton Spring: 15.7 mi
- Home Spring: 15.9 mi
- Eagle Point Day Use Area: 13.3 mi
- Rocky Point Picnic Ground: 13.8 mi
- Pine Point Day Use: 14.0 mi
- Lakeside Day Use Area: 14.3 mi
- The Falls Picnic Site: 15.8 mi
- Stevenson Creek Falls: 10.1 mi
- Whisky Falls: 13.4 mi
- Angel Falls: 16.4 mi
- Line Creek Falls: 20.3 mi
- Corlieu Falls: 22.4 mi
- Sierra-Mono Indian Museum: 8.6 mi
- Museum of the Sierra: 11.4 mi
- Millerton Courthouse Museum: 12.4 mi
- Coarsegold Historic Museum: 12.8 mi
- Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park: 17.0 mi
- Big Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 5.7 mi
- Kinsman Flat Wildlife Area: 11.4 mi
- San Joaquin Experimental Range: 12.2 mi
- Whisky Snowmobile Area: 12.8 mi
- Parkway Trust / Caglia: 20.9 mi
- Table Mountain Casino: 10.9 mi
- Willow Creek Trail: 16.2 mi
- Clovis Botanical Garden: 20.4 mi
- Clovis Rodeo Grounds: 21.9 mi
- Big Ed: 22.7 mi
- San Joaquin Butte: 2.9 mi
- Big Sandy Bluff: 5.9 mi
- South Fork Bluffs: 11.8 mi
- Grand Bluff: 16.2 mi
- San Joaquin River Bluffs: 22.4 mi
- Oakhurst Mural: 17.1 mi
- Clovis Rodeo Statue: 21.9 mi
- Tollhouse Crossing: 20.9 mi
- Oakhurst: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rock Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Point | ENE 57° | 2,465 m | 17.0 mi |
| Tamarack Mountain | ENE 72° | 2,414 m | 17.2 mi |
| Ely Mountain | ENE 75° | 2,091 m | 14.0 mi |
| Musick Mountain | ENE 68° | 2,065 m | 12.4 mi |
| Mount Stevenson | E 83° | 1,941 m | 10.6 mi |
| Source Point | NE 41° | 1,888 m | 10.9 mi |
| Peckinpah Mountain | NNE 13° | 1,827 m | 12.1 mi |
| Flume Peak | ENE 75° | 1,813 m | 10.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:36 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:43 | 20:22 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:22 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 16:05 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 48 | 52 | 57 | 65 | 74 | 81 | 80 | 75 | 64 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Auberry 2 NW, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 265509 — Rock Mountain, Fresno County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358799435
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