Split Mountain, John Muir Wilderness

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

#12 among attractions in John Muir Wilderness

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain, Top attraction

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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. It is the only fourteener in the watershed of the South Fork Kings River, and rises to 14,064 ft, making it the eighth-highest peak in the state. ()

Alternative names: First ascent: 1887Elevation: 14064 ftProminence: 1525 ftCoordinates: 37°1'15"N, 118°25'19"W

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John Muir Wilderness United States

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

Nearby attractions include: Mount Sill, Marion Peak, Vennacher Needle, Mount Ruskin.

6.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Sill, Kings Canyon National Park
175 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.
7.1 miSW
Mountain
Marion Peak, Kings Canyon National Park
181 min walk • Marion Peak is a remote 12,719-foot-elevation mountain summit located in Kings Canyon National Park, in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated on Cirque Crest which is west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, 2.13 miles northeast ...
3.2 miSW
Mountain
Vennacher Needle, Kings Canyon National Park
83 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.
4.1 miSW
Mountain
Mount Ruskin, Kings Canyon National Park
104 min walk • Mount Ruskin is a 12,920-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, immediately east of Cartridge Pass, and 1.4 miles south of Vennacher Needle, the nearest higher neighbor.
3.9 miS
Mountain
Striped Mountain
101 min walk • Striped Mountain is a 13,179-foot-elevation mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in northern California.
4.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Middle Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park
110 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.
7.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Thunderbolt Peak, John Muir Wilderness
192 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.
7.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
North Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park
183 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.
7.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Palisade Glacier, John Muir Wilderness
186 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.
4.7 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Norman Clyde Peak, John Muir Wilderness
120 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.
2.9 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Birch Mountain, John Muir Wilderness
74 min walk • 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.