Tunnel Hill
Tunnel Hill rises to 438 m in California. Devils Nose stands 1,445 m to the east-northeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Gold Ridge Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 22 miles off.
The story
Mountain in California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49085203, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 438 m
How to reach it
- 22.4 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Jackson Butte: 2.0 mi
- Ohio Hill: 2.3 mi
- Goat Hill: 3.2 mi
- Stockton Hill: 3.9 mi
- Big Dome: 4.0 mi
- Gold Ridge Park: 0.6 mi
- Plaza Park: 1.0 mi
- Detert Park: 1.5 mi
- Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park: 1.9 mi
- Italian Society Park: 3.4 mi
- Amador County Museum: 1.1 mi
- Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 2.3 mi
- Knight Foundry: 4.4 mi
- Monteverde Store Museum: 4.5 mi
- Amador Whitney Museum: 6.5 mi
- Kennedy Gold Mine: 2.3 mi
- Sutter Gold Mine: 5.7 mi
- Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 6.6 mi
- The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 8.6 mi
- Black Chasm Cavern: 9.6 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 3: 1.9 mi
- Flume Tressel Piers: 1.9 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 2: 2.0 mi
- Tailing Wheel No. 1: 2.0 mi
- Massa Tunnel: 2.0 mi
- Spanish Spring: 10.7 mi
- Canzatti Spring: 14.4 mi
- Marble Springs: 17.3 mi
- Liddicoat Spring: 18.3 mi
- Sugar Spring: 20.7 mi
- Middle Bar: 2.9 mi
- Michigan Bar: 19.1 mi
- Logtown: 21.0 mi
- A Picnic Area: 18.2 mi
- B Picnic Area: 18.3 mi
- C Picnic Area: 18.3 mi
- F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 11.5 mi
- Mokelumne Beach: 19.7 mi
- Natural Bridge: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.9 miles of Tunnel Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devils Nose | ENE 65° | 1,445 m | 20.2 mi |
| Mount Crossman | NE 54° | 1,184 m | 15.0 mi |
| Round Mountain | NNE 29° | 1,063 m | 15.8 mi |
| Cement Hill | NNE 27° | 1,018 m | 17.2 mi |
| Fort Mountain | E 89° | 999 m | 15.4 mi |
| Mount Zion | ENE 59° | 899 m | 6.8 mi |
| Mineral Mountain | ESE 122° | 856 m | 19.7 mi |
| Joaquin Peak | SSE 165° | 854 m | 14.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:40 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:51 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:05 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 50 | 52 | 56 | 63 | 71 | 78 | 77 | 73 | 65 | 54 | 47 |
| Precip in | 6.1 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutter Hill CDF, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 236631 — Tunnel Hill, Amador County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358777533
Day trips start here
- Placerville · 27 mi
- El Dorado Hills · 30 mi
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