Palisade Crest, Kings Canyon National Park

Name: Palisade Crest
Address: Kings Canyon National Park, United States

#41 among attractions in Kings Canyon National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Palisade Crest, Kings Canyon National Park

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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. ()

First ascent: 1969Elevation: 13559 ftProminence: 561 ftCoordinates: 37°4'40"N, 118°29'13"W

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Palisade Crest – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Columbine Peak, Giraud Peak, Mount Sill, Vennacher Needle.

3.1 miW
Mountain
Columbine Peak
80 min walk • Columbine Peak is a 12,662-foot-elevation mountain summit located 1.5 miles west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Fresno County of northern California, United States.
4.3 miW
Mountain
Giraud Peak
109 min walk • Giraud Peak is a 12,608-foot-elevation mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is situated in the Palisades area of northern Kings Canyon National Park, 3.0 miles southwest of North...
1.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Sill, Kings Canyon National Park
40 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.
5.5 miS
Mountain
Vennacher Needle, Kings Canyon National Park
140 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.
3.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Agassiz, John Muir Wilderness
86 min walk • Mount Agassiz, at 13,899 feet, is one of the twenty highest peaks of California. It is the northernmost and easiest to climb of the major Palisades summits.
5.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Split Mountain, John Muir Wilderness
136 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.
1.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Middle Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park
28 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.
2.2 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Temple Crag, John Muir Wilderness
57 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.
2.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Winchell, Kings Canyon National Park
71 min walk • Mount Winchell, a thirteener, is among the thirty highest peaks of California. It is in the Palisades region of the Sierra Nevada, on the Sierra Crest between Mount Agassiz and Thunderbolt Peak.
2.2 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Thunderbolt Peak, John Muir Wilderness
57 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.
1.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
North Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park
48 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.