Columbine Peak

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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. It is situated between Palisade Basin and Dusy Basin in the Palisades area of northern Kings Canyon National Park. It is 1.54 miles west of North Palisade, 2 miles south of Bishop Pass, and immediately north of Knapsack Pass. This mountain's name has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The first ascent of the summit was made prior to 1925 by persons unknown. ()

Coordinates: 37°5'22"N, 118°32'30"W

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Columbine Peak – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Giraud Peak, Langille Peak, Mount Sill, Wheel Mountain.

1.5 miSW
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Giraud Peak
39 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...
3.9 miW
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Langille Peak
100 min walk • Langille Peak is a 12,018-foot-elevation mountain summit located near the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Fresno County of northern California, United States.
2.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Sill, Kings Canyon National Park
56 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.
5.7 miSW
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Wheel Mountain
145 min walk • Wheel Mountain is a 12,774-foot-elevation mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Fresno County of northern California, United States.
1.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Agassiz, John Muir Wilderness
42 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 miSW
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Devils Crags, Kings Canyon National Park
135 min walk • Devils Crags is a 12,424-foot-elevation mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Fresno County of northern California, United States.
4.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Middle Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park
107 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.
3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Temple Crag, John Muir Wilderness
78 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.
1.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Winchell, Kings Canyon National Park
33 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.
1.4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Thunderbolt Peak, John Muir Wilderness
37 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.
1.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
North Palisade, Kings Canyon National Park
40 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.