Split Mountain
Split Mountain rises to 4,269 m in California. North Palisade stands 4,343 m to the northwest, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Prater, a peak 1.3 miles away.
The story
Split Mountain is a fourteener in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California, near the southeast end of the Palisades group of peaks. It is the only fourteener in the watershed of the South Fork Kings River, and it rises to 14,064 feet (4,287 m), making it the eighth-highest peak in the state.
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Wikidata Q4437980, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4269 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Prater: 1.3 mi
- Cardinal Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Mount Tinemaha: 1.8 mi
- Mount Bolton Brown: 2.0 mi
- Birch Mountain: 2.9 mi
- Scotty Spring: 8.0 mi
- Grouse Spring: 8.5 mi
- Fish Springs: 10.4 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 10.6 mi
- Harry Birch Springs: 10.7 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 10.2 mi
- Aberdeen Station: 11.9 mi
- Monola: 13.0 mi
- Prospect: 13.0 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 13.6 mi
- First Falls: 7.3 mi
- Triple Falls: 7.8 mi
- Second Falls: 8.0 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 14.1 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 14.1 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 12.5 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 12.8 mi
- Dehy Park: 19.2 mi
- Independence Park: 19.8 mi
- Starlite Playground and Park: 22.0 mi
- Bishop Community Garden: 23.9 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 24.8 mi
- Japanese Garden: 24.9 mi
- Rose Garden: 24.9 mi
- Arai Pond: 24.9 mi
- Windy Cliff: 8.0 mi
- Muro Blanco: 9.5 mi
- Great Cliffs: 9.7 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 15.2 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 13.0 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 13.5 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 23.3 mi
- Piñyon Picnic Area Nature Trail: 24.2 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 19.4 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 19.4 mi
- Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center: 23.6 mi
- American Mule Museum: 24.0 mi
- Kearsarge: 15.5 mi
- Bend City: 21.3 mi
- San Carlos: 22.2 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 11.3 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 16.6 mi
- Rock Monster: 12.5 mi
- Saline Valley Road OHV Trailhead: 21.9 mi
- Paiute Mural: 25.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Split Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Palisade | NW 315° | 4,343 m | 7.2 mi |
| Starlight Peak | NW 315° | 4,323.7 m | 7.3 mi |
| Mount Sill | NW 319° | 4,316 m | 6.8 mi |
| Polemonium Peak | NW 315° | 4,298.2 m | 7.0 mi |
| Middle Palisade | NW 323° | 4,278.2 m | 4.3 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | NW 315° | 4,268 m | 7.5 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | NW 323° | 4,258.6 m | 4.1 mi |
| Barrett Peak | NW 316° | 4,258 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:39 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:01 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 20 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 235207 — Split Mountain, Inyo County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358776389
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