Thunder Mountain
Thunder Mountain rises to 4,122 m in California. Mount Tyndall stands 4,275 m to the east, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Table Mountain, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
Thunder Mountain is located in the northern part 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) north of Table Mountain and south 2.8 miles (4.5 km) Mount Brewer. Thunder pass, on the mountains east side, has an elevation of 12,720+ feet (3 877+ m). This pass marks the western end of the Kings-Kern Divide. The mountain was named by George R. Davis, a topographer with the United States Geological Survey. He made the first ascent, in August 1905, to establish a benchmark on the summit. The name appears on the Mt. Whitney, USGS 30 minute topographic map of 1905, and was officially recognized by the Board on Geographic Names in 1928.
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Wikidata Q7798997, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4122 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Table Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Sky Pilot Peak: 1.2 mi
- Mount Jordan: 1.7 mi
- South Guard: 1.8 mi
- Midway Mountain: 1.8 mi
- General Sherman Tree: 16.4 mi
- Chief Sequoyah: 16.6 mi
- Tharp's Log: 16.6 mi
- Congress Group: 16.7 mi
- McKinley Tree: 16.8 mi
- Donald Downs Plaque: 5.9 mi
- Shorty's Sphinx Creek Cabin: 7.0 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 7.1 mi
- Shorty's Bubbs Creek Cabin: 8.2 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 10.8 mi
- Lower Picket Creek Falls: 6.7 mi
- Upper Picket Creek Falls: 6.8 mi
- Tamarack Falls: 7.6 mi
- Upper Buck Creek Falls: 10.2 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 10.4 mi
- SB23 intermittent spring: 13.0 mi
- Tub Springs: 13.2 mi
- Boron Springs: 14.0 mi
- McGann Springs: 16.2 mi
- Cold Spring: 16.9 mi
- Valhalla: 9.1 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 13.7 mi
- Muro Blanco: 16.8 mi
- Window Cliffs: 19.9 mi
- Paul's Paradise: 20.0 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 17.9 mi
- Bk 12 Mess Hall Garden: 18.0 mi
- Japanese Garden: 18.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 18.1 mi
- Kado's Garden: 18.1 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 18.3 mi
- Lathe Arch: 19.8 mi
- Mobius Arch: 19.8 mi
- Heart Arch: 19.9 mi
- Palette Arch: 20.8 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 14.2 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 17.4 mi
- Grizzly Falls Picnic Area: 17.5 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 17.6 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 19.4 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 17.6 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 17.7 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 18.0 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 18.6 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 23.2 mi
- Independence Park: 17.8 mi
- Dehy Park: 17.8 mi
- Merritt Park: 18.1 mi
- Spainhower Park: 23.1 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 23.5 mi
- Kearsarge: 12.8 mi
- San Carlos: 21.5 mi
- Bend City: 21.7 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 17.9 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 23.2 mi
- Paiute Mural: 18.1 mi
- Miss Alabama: 21.5 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 13.7 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 25.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.1 miles of Thunder Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tyndall | E 97° | 4,275 m | 7.7 mi |
| Mount Barnard | ESE 108° | 4,266 m | 9.0 mi |
| Mount Stanford | ENE 61° | 4,260.2 m | 5.0 mi |
| Gregory's Monument | ENE 63° | 4,254.4 m | 5.0 mi |
| Mount Keith | ENE 74° | 4,249 m | 7.6 mi |
| Trojan Peak | ESE 102° | 4,245 m | 9.1 mi |
| Junction Peak | ENE 76° | 4,224 m | 6.3 mi |
| Caltech Peak | ENE 74° | 4,216.5 m | 4.9 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 Kings Canyon National Park.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 255142 — Thunder Mountain, Tulare County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358796284
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