Twin Sisters
Twin Sisters rises to 835 m in California. Fresno Dome stands 2,298 m to the east-northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Hill, a peak 0.7 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 28 miles off.
The story
mountain in Madera County, California, United States of America
Wikidata Q49086313, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 835 m
How to reach it
- 28.4 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Indian Hill: 0.7 mi
- Crooks Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Buckeye Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Horsecamp Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Indian Peak: 4.5 mi
- Wassama Roundhouse State Historic Park: 3.8 mi
- Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park: 4.0 mi
- Oakhurst Community Park: 6.5 mi
- Yosemite Lakes Park Recreation Area: 9.9 mi
- Indian Lakes Park: 10.0 mi
- Specimen Springs: 5.6 mi
- Rogers Spring: 8.2 mi
- Cold Spring: 9.6 mi
- Daulton Spring: 11.4 mi
- Big Spring: 11.8 mi
- Corlieu Falls: 9.9 mi
- Red Rock Falls: 10.1 mi
- Angel Falls: 11.1 mi
- Lower Chilnualna Falls: 16.8 mi
- Chilnualna Fall: 17.9 mi
- Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park: 7.3 mi
- Coarsegold Historic Museum: 9.3 mi
- Thornberry Museum: 10.8 mi
- California State Mining and Mineral Museum: 13.1 mi
- Mariposa Museum and History Center: 15.2 mi
- The Falls Picnic Site: 11.1 mi
- Gold Rush BBQ: 12.0 mi
- Lakeside Day Use Area: 12.6 mi
- Pine Point Day Use: 12.9 mi
- Rocky Point Picnic Ground: 13.0 mi
- Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Historical Railroad: 10.8 mi
- Willow Creek Trail: 11.0 mi
- Big Ed: 12.1 mi
- Bull Buck Tree: 12.5 mi
- Mariposa Welcome Plaza: 14.2 mi
- Nelder Grove Historical Area: 12.0 mi
- San Joaquin Experimental Range: 15.7 mi
- Whisky Snowmobile Area: 20.1 mi
- Big Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 22.2 mi
- Kinsman Flat Wildlife Area: 24.6 mi
- Mt Buckingham School (historic): 13.0 mi
- September 11, 2001 Memorial: 14.7 mi
- Whites Cabin: 18.4 mi
- Exact Center of California: 21.3 mi
- South Fork Bluffs: 16.6 mi
- San Joaquin Butte: 22.4 mi
- Agua Fria: 17.1 mi
- Mount Ophir: 20.3 mi
- Oakhurst Mural: 6.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.5 miles of Twin Sisters. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresno Dome | ENE 58° | 2,298 m | 15.4 mi |
| Speckerman Mountain | NE 52° | 2,181 m | 13.4 mi |
| Greys Mountain | ENE 71° | 2,158 m | 14.5 mi |
| Devil Peak | N 7° | 2,114 m | 13.5 mi |
| Chowchilla Mountain | N 4° | 2,105 m | 15.5 mi |
| Hogan Mountain | NNE 29° | 2,007 m | 11.9 mi |
| Crow Peak | N 9° | 1,953 m | 12.1 mi |
| Graham Mountain | E 84° | 1,857 m | 14.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:37 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:45 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 16:05 | 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 | 36 | 36 | 39 | 43 | 50 | 59 | 65 | 65 | 60 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 7.6 | 6.7 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 5.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SO Entrance Yosemite NP, 14 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 236717 — Twin Sisters, Madera County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358777626
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- Sierra Nevada · 29 mi
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