Throop Peak
Throop Peak rises to 2,779 m in California. Mount San Antonio stands 3,068 m to the east-southeast, 9.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Lily Spring, a spring 0.7 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 24 miles off.
The story
Throop Peak ( TROOP) is a 9,142 feet (2,786 m) peak of the San Gabriel Mountains, in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest, in Los Angeles County, California. The high peak provides views of both the Mojave Desert and the Los Angeles Basin all the way to the ocean. The peak was named for Amos G. Throop, founder of Caltech, formerly called Throop College. The peak marks the northwestern boundary of the Sheep Mountain Wilderness.
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Wikidata Q7798370, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2779 m
How to reach it
- 24.4 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Hawkins: 0.7 mi
- Neight Thousand: 1.0 mi
- Mount Burnham: 1.2 mi
- Middle Hawkins: 1.4 mi
- Mount Lewis: 1.5 mi
- Pine Hollow Picnic Area: 2.1 mi
- Devils Punchbowl County Park: 4.9 mi
- Vista Day Use Area: 5.3 mi
- Buckhorn Day Use Area: 6.9 mi
- Hollis M. Stewart Children’s Park: 9.4 mi
- Vincent's Cabin: 3.4 mi
- Stanley-Miller Miner's cabin: 5.2 mi
- In the Pines: 6.5 mi
- David Burrows: 6.6 mi
- 1983 Winter Transit Memorial: 9.2 mi
- A: 14.5 mi
- William G. Kerckhoff 1856-1929: 15.6 mi
- Intersections II: 17.0 mi
- Pomegranate Trees: 17.2 mi
- Millard Sheets Art Center: 17.7 mi
- Coastal Sage Scrub: 16.7 mi
- Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts: 16.7 mi
- Baja California: 16.7 mi
- Blue Fan Palms: 16.8 mi
- Western Junipers: 16.8 mi
- Wrightwood History Museum: 9.5 mi
- Mt. Baldy Museum & Dorothy Wisely History Center: 11.2 mi
- Glendora Historical Society: 15.0 mi
- Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology: 16.1 mi
- Duarte Historical Museum: 16.4 mi
- Lily Spring: 0.7 mi
- White Fir Spring: 1.2 mi
- Little Jimmy Spring: 1.8 mi
- Big Cienega Spring: 2.0 mi
- Windy Spring: 2.1 mi
- Theodore Payne Wildlife Sanctuary: 13.2 mi
- Big Dalton Canyon Wilderness Park: 13.6 mi
- Claremont Hills Wilderness Park: 14.7 mi
- Monrovia Open Space: 14.8 mi
- Sycamore Canyon Park: 15.7 mi
- Eagles Roost Day Use Area: 4.5 mi
- Grassy Hollow Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- Jackson Lake: 5.0 mi
- Ridge Crest Picnic Ground: 5.1 mi
- Mescal Picnic Area: 5.3 mi
- Devil's Punchbowl: 5.3 mi
- Bridge to Nowhere: 5.5 mi
- Sandrocks: 5.8 mi
- Tongva Village: 17.1 mi
- The "M": 18.1 mi
- Dorr Canyon Falls: 2.1 mi
- Cooper Canyon Falls: 5.9 mi
- San Antonio Falls: 10.9 mi
- Wolfskill Falls: 12.4 mi
- Fish Canyon Falls: 13.7 mi
- Llano Del Rio: 10.9 mi
- Mt. Baldy Wayside Picnic Site: 11.4 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 21.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.4 miles of Throop Peak. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount San Antonio | ESE 116° | 3,068 m | 9.7 mi |
| West Baldy | ESE 118° | 3,044 m | 9.4 mi |
| Pine Mountain | ESE 106° | 2,942 m | 9.2 mi |
| Dawson Peak | ESE 109° | 2,917 m | 9.8 mi |
| Mount Harwood | ESE 115° | 2,907 m | 10.5 mi |
| Mount Baden-Powell | ENE 74° | 2,860 m | 2.0 mi |
| Mount Burnham | ENE 59° | 2,740 m | 1.2 mi |
| Mount Hawkins | SSW 210° | 2,677 m | 0.7 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 | 18:49 |
| 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, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358795148
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