Mount Baden-Powell
Mount Baden-Powell is a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains of California named for the founder of the World Scouting Movement, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell.Photo: simonov, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 9,383 feet
- Description: mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains of California
- Also known as: “North Baldy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Burnham and Throop Peak.
Mount Burnham
Peak
Photo: Ctatkinson, Public domain.
Mount Burnham is one of the highest peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains. It is in the Sheep Mountain Wilderness. It is named for Frederick Russell Burnham the famous American military scout who taught Scoutcraft to Robert Baden-Powell and became one of the inspirations for the founding of the Boy Scouts.
Throop Peak
Peak
Throop Peak is a 9,142 feet peak of the San Gabriel Mountains, in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest, in Los Angeles County, California.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Big Pines and Islip Saddle.
Big Pines
Village
Photo: Rennett Stowe, CC BY 2.0.
Big Pines is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is in the Angeles National Forest, San Gabriel Mountains.
Islip Saddle
Locality
Photo: Eeekster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Islip Saddle is a saddle and mountain pass in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It lies just west of Mount Islip in the San Gabriel Mountains at the intersection of State Route 2 and the northern terminus of State Route 39. Islip Saddle is situated 5 miles west of Mount Baden-Powell.
Mount Baden-Powell
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.35849° or 34° 21′ 31″ northLongitude
-117.76467° or 117° 45′ 53″ westElevation
9,383 feet (2,860 metres)Open location code
8564965P+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 358796353OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Mount Baden-Powell” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Baden-Powell”
- Dutch: “Mount Baden-Powell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت بادين پويل”
- French: “mont Baden-Powell”
- French: “Mont Baden-Powell”
- German: “Mount Baden-Powell”
- Italian: “Monte Baden-Powell”
- Japanese: “ベーデン＝パウエル山”
- Ladin: “Mount Baden-Powell”
- Portuguese: “Monte Baden-Powell”
- Spanish: “Monte Baden-Powell”
- Venetian: “Monte Baden-Powell”
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