Yucca Mountain
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Yucca Mountain rises to 2,044 m in Nevada. Rainier Mesa stands 2,339 m to the north-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Pinnacles Ridge, a peak 0.6 miles away.
The story
Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great Basin, Yucca Mountain is east of the Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site. It is the site of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, which is currently identified by US federal law as the nation's spent nuclear waste storage facility. However, while licensure of the site through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ongoing, political maneuvering led to the site being de-funded in 2010.
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Wikidata Q14705316, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2044 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Pinnacles Ridge: 0.6 mi
- Chocolate Mountain: 1.7 mi
- The Prow: 3.1 mi
- Comb Peak: 3.4 mi
- Boundary Butte: 4.0 mi
- Specie Spring: 12.4 mi
- Ute Springs: 14.7 mi
- Goss Springs: 14.8 mi
- Tippipah Spring: 15.5 mi
- Revert Springs: 16.1 mi
- Hot Springs: 15.0 mi
- Carrara: 17.2 mi
- Springdale: 17.7 mi
- Gold Center: 18.0 mi
- Wahmonie: 18.7 mi
- Ghost Rider: 21.0 mi
- Sit Here!: 21.0 mi
- The Last Supper: 21.0 mi
- Lady Desert: The Venus of Nevada: 21.0 mi
- Crescent Cliff: 13.1 mi
- Egg Point: 21.7 mi
- Ribbon Cliff: 23.2 mi
- Robert A. and Florence Revert Park: 16.8 mi
- Cottonwood Park: 16.9 mi
- Area 2 Gun Turret: 23.5 mi
- Rhyolite Ghost Casino: 20.8 mi
- Rhyolite Bottle House: 20.9 mi
- Rhyolite School Ruins: 20.9 mi
- Beatty Museum & Historical Society: 17.1 mi
- Goldwell Open Air Museum: 21.0 mi
- Area 51 Alien Center: 20.8 mi
- Rhyolite Ghost Town: 20.9 mi
- Amargosa Valley Rest Area: 20.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.3 miles of Yucca Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainier Mesa | NNE 33° | 2,339 m | 22.1 mi |
| Timber Mountain | N 0° | 2,259 m | 10.0 mi |
| North Timber Peak | N 358° | 2,239 m | 10.1 mi |
| South Timber Peak | N 354° | 2,204 m | 6.9 mi |
| Picture Rock | NNE 22° | 2,196 m | 17.2 mi |
| Pinyon Butte | NE 46° | 2,182 m | 18.4 mi |
| Shoshone Peak | E 89° | 2,150 m | 10.7 mi |
| Big Butte | NE 51° | 2,039 m | 17.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:24 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:27 | 19:31 | 20:09 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:10 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 15:53 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 45 | 51 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 81 | 79 | 72 | 61 | 49 | 41 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beatty 8 N, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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