Birch Mountain, John Muir Wilderness

Name: Birch Mountain
Address: John Muir Wilderness, United States

#30 among attractions in John Muir Wilderness

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Birch Mountain, or Paokrung, is one of the fifty highest peaks of California. Of the major peaks of the Palisades, it stands farthest from the Sierra Crest. ()

First ascent: 1887Elevation: 13608 ftProminence: 938 ftCoordinates: 37°3'46"N, 118°25'8"W

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John Muir Wilderness United States

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Birch Mountain – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mount Sill, Vennacher Needle, Split Mountain, Middle Palisade.

5.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Sill, Kings Canyon National Park
132 min walk • Mount Sill is one of the fourteeners of the Sierra Nevada in California. It is located in the Palisades, a group of striking rock peaks with a few small glaciers on their flanks.
5.4 miSW
Mountain
Vennacher Needle, Kings Canyon National Park
137 min walk • Vennacher Needle is a 12,995-foot-elevation mountain summit located in Kings Canyon National Park, in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and 1.4 miles north of Mount Ruskin.
2.9 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Split Mountain, John Muir Wilderness
74 min walk • Split Mountain is a fourteener in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California, near the southeast end of the Palisades group of peaks.
2.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Middle Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park
73 min walk • Middle Palisade is a peak in the Palisades group, part of the central Sierra Nevada mountain range in the U.S. state of California. It is the twelfth highest peak in the state.
5.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Temple Crag, John Muir Wilderness
133 min walk • Temple Crag is a mountain peak in the Palisades group of peaks of the Sierra Nevada with an elevation of 12,982 feet. The peak lies east of the Sierra Crest, between Mount Gayley and Mount Alice, straddling the drainages of the North and South Forks of Big Pine Creek.
6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Thunderbolt Peak, John Muir Wilderness
153 min walk • Thunderbolt Peak is a peak in the Palisades group of peaks in the Sierra Nevada in the U.S. state of California. It rises to 14,009 feet and could be considered the thirteenth-highest peak in the state, but since the peak has less than 300 feet of prominence it is usually considered a subsidiary peak of North Palisade.
5.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
North Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park
145 min walk • North Palisade is the third-highest mountain in the Sierra Nevada range of California. It is the highest peak of the Palisades group of peaks in the central part of the range.
5.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Palisade Glacier, John Muir Wilderness
144 min walk • The Palisade Glacier is a glacier located on the northeast side of the Palisades within the John Muir Wilderness in the central Sierra Nevada of California.
3.1 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Norman Clyde Peak, John Muir Wilderness
79 min walk • Norman Clyde Peak, standing 13,861 feet tall, is in natural company among the high peaks of the Palisades region of the Sierra Nevada in California. It raises on the main ridge of the Palisades', between Middle Palisade and Palisade Crest.
3.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Palisade Crest, Kings Canyon National Park
100 min walk • Palisade Crest is a jagged ridge in The Palisades's region of the Sierra Nevada southeast of Mount Sill and northwest of Middle Palisade. Its twelve pinnacles are unofficially named for characters from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The highest pinnacle, at 13,559 feet, is called Gandalf Peak.
2.5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Middle Palisade Glacier, John Muir Wilderness
64 min walk • Middle Palisade Glacier consists of two glaciers in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the U.S. state of California. Less than.25-mile southeast of Norman Clyde Glacier and situated at an altitude of 12,700 feet, Middle Palisade Glacier is in the John Muir Wilderness of Inyo...