Silver Hill
Silver Hill rises to 2,645 m in California. Excelsior Mountain stands 3,791 m to the southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Catholic Church (site), a historic site 0.4 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 24 miles off.
The story
mountain in Mono County, California, United States of America
Wikidata Q49073892, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2645 m
How to reach it
- 24.4 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Tioga Lake Overlook Info Site · 24 mi
- Disappearing Meadows · 27 mi
- Lembert Dome · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugarloaf: 1.2 mi
- Bodie Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Potato Peak: 4.8 mi
- Mount Biedeman: 4.9 mi
- West Brawley Peak: 5.6 mi
- Murphy Spring: 2.9 mi
- Kirkwood Spring: 5.2 mi
- Kirkwood Spring: 6.0 mi
- Warm Spring: 6.2 mi
- Coyote Spring: 7.2 mi
- Catholic Church (site): 0.4 mi
- Bottle Works (Site): 0.5 mi
- Stone Ruins: 0.5 mi
- Carpenter Shop: 0.6 mi
- Machinery: 0.7 mi
- Bodie: 0.6 mi
- Aurora: 8.2 mi
- Dog Town: 10.7 mi
- Masonic: 12.3 mi
- Dunderberg Mill: 15.0 mi
- Bodie Museum and Visitor Center: 0.5 mi
- Old Mono County Jail: 12.5 mi
- Mono County Museum: 12.7 mi
- Mono Basin Historical Society: 18.1 mi
- Bodie State Historic Park: 0.7 mi
- Mono Lake Park: 15.0 mi
- Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area: 17.8 mi
- Gus Hess Community Park: 18.0 mi
- Travertine Hot Spring: 11.1 mi
- Upside-Down House: 18.1 mi
- South Tufa Area: 18.1 mi
- Navy Beach: 18.3 mi
- Warm Springs: 13.4 mi
- Booker Hot Spring: 19.7 mi
- Walker River Hot Spring: 19.8 mi
- Fales Hot Spring: 23.6 mi
- Bodie Bluff: 1.0 mi
- Locomotive Point: 9.6 mi
- Dore Cliff: 20.3 mi
- Danburg Beach: 14.9 mi
- Navy Beach: 18.2 mi
- The Elbow: 15.7 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 20.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.8 miles of Silver Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior Mountain | SW 233° | 3,791 m | 20.5 mi |
| Dunderberg Peak | WSW 236° | 3,774 m | 17.5 mi |
| Mount Warren | SW 218° | 3,758 m | 19.0 mi |
| Twin Peaks | WSW 246° | 3,756 m | 20.9 mi |
| Matterhorn Peak | WSW 249° | 3,749.3 m | 21.8 mi |
| Twin Peaks-East Peak | WSW 246° | 3,731 m | 20.7 mi |
| Virginia Peak | WSW 243° | 3,657 m | 21.4 mi |
| Black Mountain | SW 232° | 3,584 m | 18.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:44 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 15:59 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 25 | 29 | 35 | 43 | 51 | 57 | 56 | 50 | 40 | 31 | 24 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bodie California ST Historic P, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1659668 — Silver Hill, Mono County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358807279
Day trips start here
- Mono Lake · 13 mi
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