Red Rock Falls
Red Rock Falls is a waterfall in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,266 m. Gale Peak stands 3,258 m to the northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Corlieu Falls, a waterfall 1.4 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 23 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,266 m
How to reach it
- 23.4 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 25 mi
- View on Tenaya Lake · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Silver Knob: 2.6 mi
- Speckerman Mountain: 3.4 mi
- Pilot Peak: 3.6 mi
- Goat Meadow Hill: 3.9 mi
- Hogan Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Corlieu Falls: 1.4 mi
- Angel Falls: 7.5 mi
- Lower Chilnualna Falls: 8.1 mi
- Chilnualna Fall: 9.0 mi
- Chilnualna Creek Cascades: 9.2 mi
- Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park: 6.2 mi
- Wassama Roundhouse State Historic Park: 6.2 mi
- Oakhurst Community Park: 7.2 mi
- Indian Lakes Park: 15.5 mi
- North Fork Recreation Area Memorial Park: 15.7 mi
- Thornberry Museum: 1.4 mi
- Mariposa Grove Museum: 5.9 mi
- Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park: 7.2 mi
- Yosemite History Center: 7.3 mi
- Coarsegold Historic Museum: 15.8 mi
- Cold Spring: 6.4 mi
- Specimen Springs: 15.5 mi
- Big Spring: 15.7 mi
- Arnold Spring: 16.1 mi
- Barrel Spring: 16.3 mi
- Gold Rush BBQ: 2.7 mi
- The Falls Picnic Site: 8.0 mi
- Lakeside Day Use Area: 9.9 mi
- Pine Point Day Use: 10.3 mi
- Rocky Point Picnic Ground: 10.5 mi
- Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Historical Railroad: 1.4 mi
- Big Ed: 2.8 mi
- Bull Buck Tree: 3.2 mi
- Mariposa Welcome Plaza: 5.0 mi
- Grizzly Giant: 5.2 mi
- South Fork Bluffs: 14.0 mi
- The Fissures: 19.3 mi
- Profile Cliff: 19.4 mi
- Rockslides: 20.1 mi
- Panorama Cliff: 20.1 mi
- Mt Buckingham School (historic): 12.3 mi
- Whites Cabin: 14.9 mi
- September 11, 2001 Memorial: 18.3 mi
- Exact Center of California: 21.2 mi
- Foster Curry Cabin: 21.2 mi
- Nelder Grove Historical Area: 2.6 mi
- Whisky Snowmobile Area: 16.5 mi
- Kinsman Flat Wildlife Area: 22.0 mi
- San Joaquin Experimental Range: 23.1 mi
- Agua Fria: 21.3 mi
- Mount Ophir: 24.2 mi
- Oakhurst Mural: 7.3 mi
- Arch Rock: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.8 miles of Red Rock Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gale Peak | NE 56° | 3,258 m | 16.5 mi |
| Sing Peak | ENE 59° | 3,201 m | 16.0 mi |
| Madera Peak | ENE 63° | 3,197 m | 16.1 mi |
| Redtop | ENE 59° | 3,039 m | 15.0 mi |
| Moraine Mountain | NE 42° | 2,979 m | 14.7 mi |
| Mount Bruce | NE 35° | 2,964 m | 13.7 mi |
| Buena Vista Peak | NNE 30° | 2,956 m | 12.8 mi |
| Iron Mountain | ENE 68° | 2,794 m | 8.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:36 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:45 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:23 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 16:04 | 16:45 |
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, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/2389658029
Day trips start here
- Sierra Nevada · 21 mi
- Yosemite National Park · 21 mi
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