Rubicon Peak
Rubicon Peak rises to 2,798 m in California. Pyramid Peak stands 3,043 m to the south, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Hidden Peak, a peak 1.0 miles away. Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive passes 9.6 miles off.
The story
Rubicon Peak is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada mountain range to the west of Lake Tahoe in the Desolation Wilderness in El Dorado County, California.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q7376080, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,798 m
How to reach it
- 9.6 mi off the Lake Tahoe - Eastshore Drive, National
- 20.0 mi off the Mount Rose Highway
- 27.7 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Cave Rock · 11 mi
- Logan Shoals Vista Point · 11 mi
- Memorial Point Scenic Overlook · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Hidden Peak: 1.0 mi
- Jakes Peak: 1.4 mi
- Crag Peak: 1.7 mi
- Phipps Peak: 2.5 mi
- Middle Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Kailua Park: 5.6 mi
- Fallen Leaf Recreation Center: 8.3 mi
- Thomas F Regan Memorial City Beach: 8.5 mi
- Kaspian Day Use Area: 8.8 mi
- Tahnu Leweh: 8.9 mi
- Lester Beach: 1.9 mi
- Kiva Beach: 5.6 mi
- Pope Beach: 6.7 mi
- El Dorado Beach: 9.3 mi
- Round Hill Pines Beach: 9.7 mi
- Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park: 3.7 mi
- Johnson Meadow: 9.2 mi
- Washoe Meadows State Park: 10.0 mi
- Ward Creek: 10.2 mi
- Andrews Meadows: 12.3 mi
- Tallac Point: 5.4 mi
- Cathedral Peak: 7.5 mi
- Red Cliffs: 12.3 mi
- Twin Crags: 12.4 mi
- Lovers Leap: 13.1 mi
- Fannette Island Tea House: 3.0 mi
- Glen Alpine Resort: 8.0 mi
- Ralph R. Steele Memorial: 12.2 mi
- Johnson Monument: 15.1 mi
- Olympic Flame: 15.4 mi
- Baldwin Home: 5.8 mi
- Lake Tahoe Historic Society Museum: 9.1 mi
- Gatekeeper's Museum: 12.3 mi
- Watson Cabin: 12.6 mi
- UC Davis Eriksson Education Center: 13.5 mi
- Glen Alpine Spring: 8.1 mi
- Folsom Spring: 10.7 mi
- Big Spring: 13.3 mi
- Granite Spring: 17.8 mi
- Coyote Spring: 17.9 mi
- Upper Eagle Falls: 2.8 mi
- Lower Eagle Falls: 2.8 mi
- Eagle Falls: 2.8 mi
- Cascade Falls: 4.1 mi
- Modjeska Falls: 8.0 mi
- Balancing Rock: 1.4 mi
- Rubicon Point Light: 2.1 mi
- Tallac Historic Site: 5.8 mi
- Round Hill Pines Beach Resort: 9.7 mi
- M. S. Dixie II Terminal: 9.9 mi
- Eagle Falls Picnic Area: 2.7 mi
- Meeks Bay Beach: 3.3 mi
- French Meadows Day Use Site: 17.7 mi
- Cleveland Corral: 21.3 mi
- Sandy Cove Picnic Area: 22.4 mi
- St Theresa: 9.2 mi
- The Big Tree: 12.6 mi
- The Ants: 24.7 mi
- Dolly's Vegetable Garden: 5.8 mi
- Carson City Community Garden: 24.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.6 miles of Rubicon Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pyramid Peak | S 188° | 3,043 m | 10.0 mi |
| Dicks Peak | S 189° | 3,042 m | 6.2 mi |
| Mount Price | SSW 195° | 3,040 m | 8.9 mi |
| Agassiz | SSW 192° | 3,038 m | 9.3 mi |
| Jacks Peak | S 189° | 3,002 m | 6.9 mi |
| Mount Tallac | SSE 162° | 2,967 m | 6.0 mi |
| Janine's Peak | S 179° | 2,920 m | 5.7 mi |
| East Peak | ESE 105° | 2,899 m | 12.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:13 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:50 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:00 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 61 | 55 | 46 | 36 | 29 |
| Precip in | 6.4 | 6.9 | 5.5 | 2.8 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 6.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Tahoma, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358773932
Day trips start here
- Bliss State Park · 2 mi
- Homewood · 7 mi
- Lake Tahoe · 9 mi
- Tahoe City · 13 mi
- Olympic Valley · 15 mi
- Tahoe Vista · 18 mi
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