Mount Hitchcock
Mount Hitchcock is a 13,186-foot-elevation mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Tulare County, California. It is situated in Sequoia National Park, and is two miles south-southwest of Mount Whitney, 1.3 miles southwest of Mount Muir, and 1.1 miles west of Trail Crest.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Whitney and Mount Muir.
Mount Whitney
Photo: Bureau of Land Management, CC BY 2.0.
Mount Whitney is in the Sierra Nevada range in California. At an elevation of 14,505 ft above sea level, it is the highest point in the contiguous United States.
Mount Muir
Peak
Photo: Poppy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Muir is a peak in the Sierra Nevada of California, 0.95 miles south of Mount Whitney. This 14,018-foot peak is named in honor of John Muir, a geologist, conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club.
Trail Crest
Mountain saddle
Photo: Sanjoy Ghosh, CC BY 2.0.
Trail Crest is a mountain trail pass on the Mount Whitney Trail that crosses the Sierra Crest. East of the pass are 97 switchbacks leading down to Trail Camp in Inyo National Forest.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitney Portal.
Whitney Portal
Hamlet
Photo: MostlyDeserts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitney Portal is the end of the Whitney Portal road in Inyo County, California, 13.7 miles west of Lone Pine at an elevation of 8,374 feet. Whitney Portal is the gateway to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States; it is the trailhead for the Mount Whitney Trail. Whitney Portal is situated 5 miles northeast of Mount Hitchcock.
Mount Hitchcock
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,028 feet
- Description: mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.55493° or 36° 33′ 18″ northLongitude
-118.31171° or 118° 18′ 42″ westElevation
13,028 feet (3,971 metres)Open location code
8583HM3Q+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 358798151OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Mount Hitchcock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Hitchcock (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Hitchcock”
- “Mount Hitchcock”
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Notable Places Nearby
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