Tumble Buttes
Tumble Buttes rises to 2,024 m in California. Lassen Peak stands 3,187 m to the south, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Logan Mountain, a peak 1.2 miles away.
The story
The Tumble Buttes are a group of cinder cone volcanoes in the US state of California.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q12687223, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,024 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Logan Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Hall Butte: 1.7 mi
- Little Logan Butte: 2.3 mi
- Fredonyer Peak: 2.8 mi
- Bear Wallow Butte: 2.8 mi
- Old Boundary Spring: 10.9 mi
- Onion Springs: 12.3 mi
- Cascade Springs: 14.3 mi
- Cold Boiling Spring: 15.3 mi
- Supans Springs: 15.3 mi
- Kings Creek Falls: 15.7 mi
- Mill Creek Falls: 16.1 mi
- Bluff Falls: 17.9 mi
- Pit River Falls: 22.1 mi
- Lion Wash Falls: 22.3 mi
- Red Cliff: 3.3 mi
- Gray Cliff: 4.1 mi
- Palisade Cliff: 10.4 mi
- Hat Creek Rim: 11.9 mi
- Crescent Cliff: 12.8 mi
- Seismograph: 9.4 mi
- Hot Rock: 10.0 mi
- Hat Creek Radio Observatory: 10.9 mi
- Devastated Area: 11.6 mi
- Bumpass Hell: 15.0 mi
- Turquoise Pool: 15.0 mi
- Big Boiler: 15.0 mi
- Pyrite Pool: 15.1 mi
- Drakesbad Hot Springs: 17.6 mi
- Terminal Geyser: 19.5 mi
- Washburn Blue Park: 15.4 mi
- Burney Civic Park: 15.8 mi
- Hat Creek Park: 21.1 mi
- Meadow Park: 21.5 mi
- Fall River Lions Community Park: 23.6 mi
- Hat Creek Campground Picnic Area: 5.3 mi
- Old Station Day Use Area: 5.6 mi
- Kings Creek Picnic Area: 15.2 mi
- Shingletown Rest Area: 18.7 mi
- Bogard Rest Area: 22.2 mi
- Hillcrest Rest Area: 22.5 mi
- Mount Harkness Lookout: 21.1 mi
- Lockhart Ferry: 23.5 mi
- Fort Maxwell: 23.6 mi
- Lassen Volcanic National Park: 14.1 mi
- Totem Pole: 21.6 mi
- Fort Crook Museum: 23.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.3 miles of Tumble Buttes. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lassen Peak | S 169° | 3,187 m | 12.9 mi |
| Loomis Peak | S 178° | 2,626 m | 12.7 mi |
| Chaos Crags | S 172° | 2,567 m | 10.3 mi |
| Magee Peak | WNW 288° | 2,563 m | 3.9 mi |
| Crater Peak | WNW 296° | 2,552 m | 4.2 mi |
| Prospect Peak | ESE 122° | 2,538 m | 12.7 mi |
| West Prospect Peak | ESE 121° | 2,463 m | 10.4 mi |
| Crescent Crater | SSE 166° | 2,452 m | 11.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:42 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 20:00 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 15:59 | 16:43 |
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 | 32 | 32 | 35 | 39 | 48 | 55 | 63 | 62 | 57 | 46 | 37 | 31 |
| Precip in | 6.5 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 4.3 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 4.7 | 6.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Manzanita Lake, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1660041 — Tumble Buttes, Shasta County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358807614
Day trips start here
- Lassen Volcanic National Park · 14 mi
- Shingletown · 20 mi
- Shasta County · 26 mi
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