Yellow Knolls
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Yellow Knolls rises to 810 m in Arizona. Mount Bangs stands 2,420 m to the south-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Starvation Point, a peak 1.8 miles away. Zion Park Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off.
The story
Yellow Knolls, of Arizona, is a prominence in the Virgin River Gorge's east end, located in Mohave County, part of the Arizona Strip of northwest Arizona. Yellow Knolls is located on the north side of Interstate 15, and is also in the south of the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness. The knolls are located where the Virgin River enters Arizona from southwest Utah; the Virgin River is a due-southwest trending circuitous stretch, as it descends from higher elevations at the southwest of the Colorado Plateau, specifically the High Plateaus Section, a transition region to the lower elevation Great Basin that lies west, northwest; the lower elevation region is also at an intersection point with the northeast perimeter region of the Mojave Desert. After a short stretch in Nevada, the Virgin River turns south in the Overton Arm of Lake Mead. Yellow Knolls is approximately 15-mi northeast of Littlefield-Beaver Dam, Arizona in the northeast of the Virgin Valley, and about 20-mi southwest of St. George, Utah. The Yellow Knolls section is bordered on the west by a due-south flowing stretch of Cedar Pockets Wash, which arises on the southeast of Jarvis Peak, 6,530 feet (1,990 m), (the highpoint of the south Beaver Dam Mountains section). The Yellow Knolls section is about 4-mi wide, and Yellow Knolls prominence, 2,668 feet (813 m), is located at the southeast, adjacent the river and gorge, as the river descends from the northeast from Utah. An aerial photo (shown above) shows the Virgin River meanders, and are easily identifiable on maps. The section shows the Arizona-Utah border; the canyon coming from the south is Black Rock Canyon, arising from Mustang Knoll highpoint, 6,101 feet (1,860 m), a lower mountain section east of the Paiute Wilderness, located in the northeast end of the Virgin Mountains.
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Wikidata Q8051756, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 810 m
How to reach it
- 20.8 mi off the Zion Park Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Starvation Point: 1.8 mi
- Black Knolls: 4.9 mi
- Pocket Hill: 6.4 mi
- Scrub Peak: 7.0 mi
- Tabeau Peak: 7.5 mi
- Atkinville Wash Park: 8.0 mi
- Bloomington Petroglyph Park: 8.8 mi
- Bloomington Park: 9.5 mi
- Thunder Junction All Abilities Park: 10.5 mi
- Hidden Valley Park: 10.6 mi
- Cave Spring: 6.6 mi
- Mountain Sheep Spring: 7.1 mi
- Lost Spring: 7.7 mi
- Cottonwood Spring: 7.9 mi
- Atkin Spring: 7.9 mi
- Petroglyphs: 12.5 mi
- Virgin River Fish Viewing Area: 13.2 mi
- St. George Narrows: 13.4 mi
- Johnson Arch: 15.3 mi
- The Corn Maize: 15.3 mi
- Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum: 11.2 mi
- Jacob Hamblin House: 11.8 mi
- Samuel R. Knight Santa Clara History Museum: 11.8 mi
- Santa Clara Historical Society Archive and Museum: 11.9 mi
- St. George Childrens Museum: 12.5 mi
- Grey Points: 1.9 mi
- Starvation Point: 2.4 mi
- The Dives: 6.3 mi
- Ren and Stimpy Wall: 7.9 mi
- Arch Wall: 8.0 mi
- Brigham Young Winter Home: 12.7 mi
- Encampment Mall Monument: 13.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 13.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial Park: 14.0 mi
- The Granery: 16.7 mi
- Dad: 12.8 mi
- Whitaker Wind Sculptures: 13.0 mi
- DIXIE: 13.1 mi
- Heritage Sculpture: 13.8 mi
- "The Mustangs" Roundabout: 14.0 mi
- The Garden: 10.6 mi
- Red Hills Desert Garden: 13.3 mi
- Kayenta Desert Arboretum: 14.5 mi
- Lower Galoot Picnic Area: 17.1 mi
- Upper Galoot Picnic Area: 17.3 mi
- Wolf Hole: 18.2 mi
- Harrisburg: 24.9 mi
- Santa Clara River Reserve: 10.1 mi
- Nevada Welcome Center: 21.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.3 miles of Yellow Knolls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Bangs | SSW 206° | 2,420 m | 14.1 mi |
| West Mountain Peak | NNW 328° | 2,346 m | 14.6 mi |
| Black Rock Mountain | SSW 195° | 2,245 m | 14.5 mi |
| Grass Knoll | NNE 27° | 2,224 m | 24.3 mi |
| Scrub Peak | NW 320° | 2,065 m | 7.0 mi |
| Cedar Knoll | NNE 28° | 2,056 m | 23.3 mi |
| Jarvis Peak | NNW 338° | 1,989 m | 8.0 mi |
| Low Mountain | S 175° | 1,954 m | 9.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:47 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:20 | 19:59 |
| September equinox | 06:24 | 17:59 | 18:33 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 16:42 | 17:22 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Oct–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 51 | 59 | 65 | 75 | 85 | 91 | 90 | 82 | 70 | 56 | 46 |
| Precip in | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beaver DAM, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/359253722
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