Salmon Mountain
Salmon Mountain rises to 2,106 m in California. Pony Mountain stands 2,244 m to the south-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is High Spring, a spring 0.4 miles away.
The story
Salmon Mountain is located in the Klamath Mountains of California and is the highest point in Humboldt County. The area is protected in the Trinity Alps Wilderness on the Six Rivers National Forest.
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Wikidata Q7405519, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2106 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Indian Rocks: 1.3 mi
- Whiteys Peak: 2.1 mi
- High Point: 2.2 mi
- Bowerman Peak: 3.9 mi
- Youngs Peak: 4.1 mi
- H E Beck Junior Memorial Branch: 10.5 mi
- Tish Tang Campground & River Access: 16.3 mi
- Veterans Park: 19.7 mi
- Tonkin Park: 20.3 mi
- Commons Park in Willow Creek, CA: 20.3 mi
- Ishi Pishi Falls: 14.6 mi
- Grizzly Lake Falls: 22.2 mi
- Gray Falls: 23.0 mi
- Burnt Ranch Falls: 24.9 mi
- Bigfoot Statue: 20.3 mi
- Museum Bigfoot Statue: 20.4 mi
- Gonzalez Bigfoot Statue: 20.4 mi
- Gold Panner: 20.4 mi
- High Spring: 0.4 mi
- Marble Springs: 16.4 mi
- China Spring: 19.3 mi
- Dougherty Bluff: 10.5 mi
- Grant Bluffs: 10.8 mi
- Limestone Bluffs: 11.3 mi
- Fish Lake Campground Day Use Area: 15.3 mi
- Grays Fall Day Use Area: 23.1 mi
- Hoopa Valley Museum: 16.6 mi
- Ironsides Museum: 22.5 mi
- Kimtu Beach on Trinity River: 19.4 mi
- Hlel-Din River Access/South Fork & Trinity confluence: 22.6 mi
- Negro Flat: 7.9 mi
- Willow Creek Community Garden: 20.4 mi
- Francis B. Mathews Rest Area: 22.0 mi
- Russell Cabin: 22.1 mi
- Russian Wilderness: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Salmon Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pony Mountain | SSE 150° | 2,244 m | 18.7 mi |
| English Peak | NE 34° | 2,229 m | 18.2 mi |
| Crapo Mountain | NE 40° | 2,103 m | 15.3 mi |
| Rays Peak | ESE 117° | 2,102 m | 17.8 mi |
| Dees Peak | SE 125° | 2,093 m | 9.5 mi |
| Cabin Peak | SE 139° | 2,082 m | 16.6 mi |
| Mary Blaine Mountain | SE 128° | 2,043 m | 10.1 mi |
| Potato Mountain | ESE 123° | 2,031 m | 7.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:18 | 18:50 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 20:09 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:02 | 18:36 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:04 | 16:49 |
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, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 232285 — Salmon Mountain, Siskiyou County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358774476
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