Rocky Point Peak
Rocky Point Peak rises to 460 m in California. Whiskey Hill stands 1,418 m to the northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Crystal Hill, a peak 1.4 miles away.
The story
Mountain in California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49069251, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 460 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Crystal Hill: 1.4 mi
- Stringtown Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Union Hill: 2.9 mi
- Island Bar Hill: 3.0 mi
- Sunset Hill: 3.5 mi
- Craig Recreation Area: 2.3 mi
- Sycamore Creek Recreation Area: 2.9 mi
- Loafer Creek Recreation Area: 5.2 mi
- Lake Oroville State Recreation Area: 5.4 mi
- Kelly Ridge Recreation Area: 5.8 mi
- Feather Falls: 7.8 mi
- Curtain Falls: 8.3 mi
- Schirmer Cascade: 10.2 mi
- Schirmer Falls: 10.5 mi
- Hollow Falls: 10.9 mi
- bath house museum: 10.4 mi
- Butte County Historical Society Museum: 10.6 mi
- Pioneer History Museum: 10.7 mi
- Oroville Chinese Temple: 11.2 mi
- C F Lott Historic Home: 11.4 mi
- Cape Horn: 15.5 mi
- Rocky Point: 17.2 mi
- Granite Point: 17.8 mi
- Clarenback Point: 18.5 mi
- Johnsons Bluff: 19.7 mi
- Bidwell's Bar: 4.5 mi
- Bloomer: 8.8 mi
- Brush: 10.5 mi
- Hamilton: 16.5 mi
- Chandon: 23.0 mi
- North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 11.7 mi
- Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 15.0 mi
- Lower Yuba River: 23.0 mi
- Black Swan Preserve: 23.8 mi
- Round Mountain Conservation Easement: 24.7 mi
- Hespol Memorial Spring: 17.3 mi
- Oven Spring: 22.6 mi
- Jackies Orchard Spring: 23.8 mi
- Hog Spring: 24.8 mi
- Holden Spring: 24.8 mi
- Bridgeport Covered Bridge: 19.7 mi
- Purdon Crossing: 22.6 mi
- China Dam: 23.0 mi
- Emerald Pool: 23.1 mi
- Beatson Corral: 11.8 mi
- World Trade Center artifact: 17.1 mi
- World's First Long-Distance Telephone Line: 19.7 mi
- Collins Lake Beach: 15.0 mi
- Hoyt Crossing Nude Beach: 22.6 mi
- Pine Island Beach: 23.2 mi
- Convict Flat Picnic Site: 21.6 mi
- Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 23.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Rocky Point Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiskey Hill | NE 36° | 1,418 m | 14.4 mi |
| Quartz Hill | NE 53° | 1,325 m | 10.3 mi |
| Sky High | NNE 21° | 1,275 m | 13.4 mi |
| Shute Mountain | NNE 17° | 1,255 m | 11.1 mi |
| Swain Hill | NE 53° | 1,248 m | 7.7 mi |
| Pompys Point | NNE 28° | 1,214 m | 11.4 mi |
| Barton Hill | E 89° | 1,176 m | 12.0 mi |
| Big Hill | E 99° | 1,145 m | 11.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:57 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:03 | 16:45 |
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 | 41 | 41 | 43 | 47 | 55 | 62 | 69 | 68 | 64 | 55 | 46 | 40 |
| Precip in | 14.7 | 13.7 | 12.8 | 6.4 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 4.1 | 8.6 | 16.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Strawberry Valley 2, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 265544 — Rocky Point Peak, Butte County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358799451
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- Grass Valley · 28 mi
- Chico · 29 mi
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