White Chief Mountain
White Chief Mountain rises to 2,637 m in California. Merced Peak stands 3,575 m to the northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Raymond, a peak 1.6 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 22 miles off.
The story
Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California.
Wikidata Q49089205, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,637 m
How to reach it
- 21.9 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- View on Tenaya Lake · 23 mi
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 24 mi
- Lembert Dome · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Raymond: 1.6 mi
- Fresno Dome: 2.4 mi
- Iron Mountain: 2.5 mi
- Speckerman Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Wawona Point: 4.2 mi
- Red Rock Falls: 6.8 mi
- Chilnualna Creek Cascades: 6.8 mi
- Lower Chilnualna Falls: 6.8 mi
- Chilnualna Fall: 6.9 mi
- Corlieu Falls: 7.0 mi
- Mariposa Grove Museum: 3.9 mi
- Thornberry Museum: 6.5 mi
- Yosemite History Center: 7.5 mi
- Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park: 12.4 mi
- Nature Center at Happy Isles: 16.8 mi
- Gold Rush BBQ: 5.7 mi
- The Falls Picnic Site: 11.1 mi
- Lakeside Day Use Area: 12.4 mi
- Pine Point Day Use: 12.6 mi
- Rocky Point Picnic Ground: 12.8 mi
- Grizzly Giant: 3.8 mi
- Bull Buck Tree: 4.7 mi
- Big Ed: 5.0 mi
- Mariposa Welcome Plaza: 5.4 mi
- Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Historical Railroad: 6.5 mi
- South Fork Bluffs: 15.2 mi
- Panorama Cliff: 15.9 mi
- The Fissures: 15.9 mi
- Profile Cliff: 16.0 mi
- Cascade Cliffs: 16.4 mi
- Oakhurst Community Park: 12.8 mi
- Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park: 12.9 mi
- Wassama Roundhouse State Historic Park: 13.0 mi
- North Fork Recreation Area Memorial Park: 17.6 mi
- El Portal Park: 18.9 mi
- Cold Spring: 11.5 mi
- Barrel Spring: 16.7 mi
- Moss Spring: 17.1 mi
- Fern Spring: 17.2 mi
- Black Spring: 17.4 mi
- Whites Cabin: 15.1 mi
- Mt Buckingham School (historic): 16.6 mi
- Chetwood Cabin: 16.9 mi
- Foster Curry Cabin: 17.2 mi
- Women's Club Building: 17.3 mi
- Nelder Grove Historical Area: 5.1 mi
- Whisky Snowmobile Area: 16.4 mi
- Kinsman Flat Wildlife Area: 21.8 mi
- Yosemite National Park: 24.2 mi
- Oakhurst Mural: 12.7 mi
- Arch Rock: 14.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.4 miles of White Chief Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merced Peak | NE 37° | 3,575 m | 12.7 mi |
| Red Peak | NNE 31° | 3,567 m | 13.3 mi |
| Triple Divide Peak | NE 42° | 3,533 m | 13.4 mi |
| Gray Peak | NNE 26° | 3,526 m | 14.3 mi |
| Mount Clark | NNE 22° | 3,512 m | 15.5 mi |
| Ottoway Peak | NE 36° | 3,512 m | 13.1 mi |
| Post Peak | NE 49° | 3,354 m | 14.8 mi |
| Isberg Peak | NE 46° | 3,352 m | 16.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:36 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:44 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:22 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 16:03 | 16:44 |
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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 237636 — White Chief Mountain, Madera County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358778736
Day trips start here
- Sierra Nevada · 17 mi
- Yosemite National Park · 17 mi
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