Table Mountain
Table Mountain rises to 4,151 m in California. Mount Tyndall stands 4,275 m to the east, 7.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Thunder Mountain, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
Table Mountain is located near the northern end of the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada in California. The summit marks a point on the boundary between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks and is 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Thunder Mountain and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) northeast of Midway Mountain. Clarence King of the Whitney Survey mentioned in his notes that "At one place the ridge [Great Western Divide] forms a level table." The name Table appeared on Charles F. Hoffmann's map of 1873. In 1881 the mountain was named Mount Hazen in honor of General Hazen, the Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army. In 1905, the Board on Geographic Names recognized the name Table Mountain. This name appeared on both the Tehipite and the Mt. Whitney USGS 30' maps published in 1905 and 1907 respectively. It is the tallest of the 21 peaks named Table Mountain in California.
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Wikidata Q7673143, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4,151 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Thunder Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Midway Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Sky Pilot Peak: 1.8 mi
- Milestone Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Mount Jordan: 2.0 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 16.3 mi
- Tharp's Log: 16.4 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 16.5 mi
- Congress Group: 16.5 mi
- McKinley Tree: 16.6 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 6.1 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 6.2 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 7.3 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 10.0 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 10.9 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 7.5 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 7.6 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 8.8 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 10.3 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 11.5 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 12.6 mi
- Tub Springs: 13.6 mi
- Boron Springs: 14.3 mi
- Cold Spring: 16.4 mi
- McGann Springs: 16.6 mi
- Valhalla: 8.8 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 13.3 mi
- Muro Blanco: 17.4 mi
- Window Cliffs: 19.3 mi
- Paul's Paradise: 19.7 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 18.1 mi
- Lathe Arch: 19.6 mi
- Mobius Arch: 19.6 mi
- Heart Arch: 19.6 mi
- Palette Arch: 20.5 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 18.0 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 18.0 mi
- Japanese Garden: 18.1 mi
- Kado's Garden: 18.1 mi
- Arai Pond: 18.2 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 13.9 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 17.6 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 17.9 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 19.2 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 17.8 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 17.9 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 17.9 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 18.6 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 23.0 mi
- Independence Park: 18.0 mi
- Dehy Park: 18.0 mi
- Merritt Park: 18.1 mi
- Spainhower Park: 22.9 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 23.7 mi
- Kearsarge: 13.2 mi
- San Carlos: 21.7 mi
- Bend City: 21.9 mi
- Paiute Mural: 18.1 mi
- Miss Alabama: 21.3 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 18.2 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 23.6 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 13.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.9 miles of Table Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tyndall | E 92° | 4,275 m | 7.6 mi |
| Mount Barnard | ESE 105° | 4,266 m | 8.7 mi |
| Mount Stanford | NE 55° | 4,260 m | 5.3 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | ENE 56° | 4,254 m | 5.2 mi |
| Mount Keith | ENE 69° | 4,249 m | 7.7 mi |
| Trojan Peak | E 98° | 4,245 m | 8.9 mi |
| Junction Peak | ENE 70° | 4,224 m | 6.3 mi |
| Caltech Peak | ENE 67° | 4,217 m | 5.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:38 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:02 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 15 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Sequoia National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358795738
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