South Mount Hawkins
South Mount Hawkins rises to 2,369 m in California. Mount San Antonio stands 3,068 m to the east, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Sadie Hawkins, a peak 0.8 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 22 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
South Mount Hawkins is located in the San Gabriel Mountains, and contained within the Angeles National Forest. The mountain was named after Nellie Hawkins, a popular waitress of the Squirrel Inn located on the North Fork of the San Gabriel River. Although the Squirrel Inn is long gone, Nellie has her name on Mount Hawkins and South Mount Hawkins. There are two ridge bumps between the two named summits and they are unofficially known as "Middle Hawkins" and "Sadie Hawkins". According to the California State Library, "Cold Brook Camp, located within the Angeles National Forest, [was] very popular with campers. Started out as hunter's camp owned by R.W. Dawson. In 1901, land leased to Doc Beatty who opened hostelry called Squirrel Inn. In 1907, Dawson took over the Inn renaming it Cold Brook Camp. Eventually built hotel, cabins and tents. Was popular in early 1900s and into the 1920s."
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Wikidata Q7567986, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,369 m
How to reach it
- 22.4 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pine Hollow Picnic Area: 3.2 mi
- Vista Day Use Area: 5.4 mi
- Buckhorn Day Use Area: 6.7 mi
- Devils Punchbowl County Park: 7.1 mi
- Hollis M. Stewart Children’s Park: 10.6 mi
- Sadie Hawkins: 0.8 mi
- Middle Hawkins: 1.6 mi
- Mount Hawkins: 2.1 mi
- Neight Thousand: 2.5 mi
- Throop Peak: 2.8 mi
- Stanley-Miller Miner's cabin: 4.3 mi
- Vincent's Cabin: 5.4 mi
- In the Pines: 8.3 mi
- 1983 Winter Transit Memorial: 9.9 mi
- Deer Park Lodge: 12.0 mi
- Coastal Sage Scrub: 14.4 mi
- Baja California: 14.4 mi
- Blue Fan Palms: 14.4 mi
- Torrey Pines: 14.4 mi
- Western Junipers: 14.4 mi
- William G. Kerckhoff 1856-1929: 13.6 mi
- Intersections II: 14.6 mi
- Pomegranate Trees: 14.9 mi
- Millard Sheets Art Center: 15.3 mi
- Scripps Graffiti Wall: 15.4 mi
- Mt. Baldy Museum & Dorothy Wisely History Center: 10.1 mi
- Wrightwood History Museum: 10.6 mi
- Glendora Historical Society: 12.2 mi
- Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology: 13.6 mi
- Duarte Historical Museum: 13.7 mi
- Alexander Spring: 1.6 mi
- Big Cienega Spring: 2.1 mi
- Lily Spring: 2.3 mi
- White Fir Spring: 2.4 mi
- Little Jimmy Spring: 2.6 mi
- Big Dalton Canyon Wilderness Park: 10.8 mi
- Monrovia Open Space: 12.4 mi
- Claremont Hills Wilderness Park: 12.4 mi
- Sycamore Canyon Park: 13.4 mi
- Monrovia Canyon Park: 13.8 mi
- Bridge to Nowhere: 4.1 mi
- Devil's Punchbowl: 7.4 mi
- Sandrocks: 7.9 mi
- Tongva Village: 14.7 mi
- The "M": 15.7 mi
- Eagles Roost Day Use Area: 4.9 mi
- Ridge Crest Picnic Ground: 5.3 mi
- Grassy Hollow Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Jackson Lake: 7.3 mi
- Mescal Picnic Area: 7.5 mi
- Dorr Canyon Falls: 4.8 mi
- Cooper Canyon Falls: 6.3 mi
- Wolfskill Falls: 10.0 mi
- San Antonio Falls: 10.4 mi
- Fish Canyon Falls: 11.2 mi
- Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 10.5 mi
- Llano Del Rio: 13.5 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 20.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of South Mount Hawkins. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount San Antonio | E 99° | 3,068 m | 9.5 mi |
| West Baldy | E 101° | 3,044 m | 9.1 mi |
| Dawson Peak | E 93° | 2,917 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Harwood | E 100° | 2,907 m | 10.3 mi |
| Mount Baden-Powell | NE 39° | 2,860 m | 4.2 mi |
| Throop Peak | NNE 13° | 2,779 m | 2.8 mi |
| Mount Burnham | NNE 27° | 2,740 m | 3.7 mi |
| Mount Hawkins | N 7° | 2,677 m | 2.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:30 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:16 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 06:54 | 16:07 | 16:46 |
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 | 37 | 36 | 42 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 51 | 42 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wrightwood, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358785559
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