Slide Peak
Slide Peak rises to 3,327 m in California. Wheel Mountain stands 3,883 m to the north-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Kennedy Mountain, a peak 2.0 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q49074605, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3,327 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Kennedy Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Hogback Peak: 2.0 mi
- Tenderfoot Peak: 2.7 mi
- Mount Harrington: 3.1 mi
- Crystal Turret: 3.2 mi
- Rock Monster: 15.2 mi
- Chicago Stump: 17.6 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 18.0 mi
- General Grant Tree: 18.7 mi
- Gamlin Cabin: 18.7 mi
- Blue Canyon Falls: 3.9 mi
- Silver Spray Falls: 5.3 mi
- Grizzly Falls: 7.3 mi
- Roaring River Falls: 9.1 mi
- Triple Falls: 9.5 mi
- Cold Springs: 17.2 mi
- Wiesman Spring: 17.8 mi
- Lousy Spring: 19.5 mi
- Scotty Spring: 20.5 mi
- Big Springs: 20.8 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 4.8 mi
- Blue Canyon Cabin: 6.3 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 10.9 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 11.8 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 12.2 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 7.3 mi
- Helms Picnic Area: 17.4 mi
- Short Hair Creek Picnic Area: 17.7 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 17.8 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 18.7 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 2.4 mi
- Muro Blanco: 9.4 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 9.4 mi
- Great Cliffs: 9.4 mi
- Windy Cliff: 10.0 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 18.5 mi
- Courtright Intrusive Contact Zone Geological Area: 19.5 mi
- Teakettle Experiment Area: 19.6 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 13.9 mi
- Jumping Rock: 14.2 mi
- Kearsarge: 21.2 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 23.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.2 miles of Slide Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheel Mountain | NNE 19° | 3,883 m | 10.7 mi |
| Marion Peak | ENE 67° | 3,874 m | 10.1 mi |
| State Peak | ENE 75° | 3,840 m | 8.4 mi |
| Finger Peak | NNW 347° | 3,780 m | 9.2 mi |
| Dougherty Peak | E 80° | 3,733 m | 8.1 mi |
| Mount Woodworth | NNE 25° | 3,724 m | 9.6 mi |
| Goat Mountain | ESE 108° | 3,719 m | 6.8 mi |
| Munger Peak | ESE 106° | 3,680 m | 6.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:40 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:02 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 36 | 38 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 66 | 65 | 60 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 8.0 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 6.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grant Grove, 19 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 2026363 — Slide Peak, Fresno County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358852092
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