Mount Burnham
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ctatkinson, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 8,990 feet
- Description: peak in the San Gabriel Mountains
- Also known as: “Mt. Burnham”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Baden-Powell and Throop Peak.
Mount Baden-Powell
Peak
Photo: simonov, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
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.
Dawson Saddle
Mountain saddle
Dawson Saddle is a saddle and mountain pass over the San Gabriel Mountains located in northeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. At 7,943 ft, it is the highest point along the Angeles Crest Highway and the second highest mountain pass in Southern California after Onyx Summit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Islip Saddle and Big Pines.
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.
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. Big Pines is situated 5 miles east of Mount Burnham.
Mount Burnham
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.35911° or 34° 21′ 33″ northLongitude
-117.7815° or 117° 46′ 53″ westElevation
8,990 feet (2,740 metres)Open location code
85649659+J9OpenStreetMap ID
node 358796363OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Portuguese—“Mount Burnham” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Burnham (bukid sa Estados Unidos)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Burnham”
- Danish: “Mount Burnham”
- Dutch: “Mount Burnham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت بورنهام”
- Hebrew: “הר ברנהאם”
- Ladin: “Mount Burnham”
- Portuguese: “Monte Burnham”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Burnham”. Photo: Ctatkinson, Public domain.