Milestone Mountain, Kings Canyon National Park

Name: Milestone Mountain
Address: Kings Canyon National Park, United States

#39 among attractions in Kings Canyon National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Milestone Mountain is a thirteener on the Great Western Divide, a subrange of the Sierra Nevada. The summit marks a point on the boundary between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. It is 0.6 miles south of Midway Mountain and 3.8 miles northeast of Triple Divide Peak. It takes its name from the shape of the obelisk on its peak, and has been called this since at least 1873. ()

First ascent: 1912Elevation: 13644 ftProminence: 711 ftCoordinates: 36°38'5"N, 118°29'6"W

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Kings Canyon National Park United States

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

Nearby attractions include: Mount Genevra, South Guard, Mount Jordan, Midway Mountain.

4.4 miNE
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Mount Genevra
112 min walk • Mount Genevra is a remote 13,054-foot-elevation mountain summit located on the Kings–Kern Divide of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California. It is situated on the shared boundary of Kings Canyon National Park with Sequoia National Park, 3.5...
4.1 miN
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South Guard, Kings Canyon National Park
104 min walk • South Guard is a remote 13,232-foot-elevation mountain summit located near the northern end of the Great Western Divide of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California. It is situated in Kings Canyon National Park, 1.63 miles south of North Guard...
3.8 miNE
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Mount Jordan, Kings Canyon National Park
98 min walk • Mount Jordan is a remote 13,343-foot-elevation mountain summit located on the Kings–Kern Divide of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California. It is situated on the shared boundary of Kings Canyon National Park with Sequoia National Park, 3.1 miles...
0.6 miN
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Midway Mountain, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
16 min walk • Midway Mountain is a remote 13,665-foot-elevation mountain summit located on the Great Western Divide of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California.
2.6 miW
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Whaleback, Kings Canyon National Park
67 min walk • Whaleback is a remote 11,717-foot-elevation three-mile-long ridge located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California. It is situated in Kings Canyon National Park, extending north from the Great Western Divide.
6.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Stanford, Kings Canyon National Park
175 min walk • Mount Stanford, at an elevation of 13,979 feet, is on the Kings-Kern Divide in Kings Canyon National Park. It is named for Stanford University.
4.1 miSW
Waterfall
Roaring River, Kings Canyon National Park
104 min walk • The Roaring River is a 16.6-mile long tributary of the South Fork Kings River, in the Sierra Nevada of Fresno County, California. The entire course of the river is within Kings Canyon National Park.
5.1 miN
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Mount Brewer, Kings Canyon National Park
130 min walk • Mount Brewer is on the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada in California.
2.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Thunder Mountain, Kings Canyon National Park
62 min walk • Thunder Mountain is located in the northern part of the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada in California. The summit marks a point on the boundary between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks and is 0.6 miles north of Table Mountain and south 2.8 miles Mount Brewer.
3.9 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Triple Divide Peak, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
99 min walk • Triple Divide Peak is a mountain along the Great Western Divide in the Sierra Nevada range on the boundary between Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks, in Tulare County, California. It rises to 12,640 feet.
7.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Deadman Canyon, Kings Canyon National Park
183 min walk • Deadman Canyon is a glacier-carved canyon in Kings Canyon National Park. Its namesake is an Iberian sheep-herder who died and is buried there.