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Mount Lowe

Mount Lowe is a mountain on the southern fold of the . Originally named Oak Mountain, it was renamed for Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, who is credited for being the first person to set foot on and plant the American flag at its peak, and who built the Mount Lowe Railway to its foot in 1896.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 5,574 feet
  • Description: mountain in California, United States of America
  • Also known as: “John Brown Peak”, “Mt. Lowe”, and “Oak Mountain”

Places of Interest

Highlights include San Gabriel Peak and Mount Disappointment.

Peak
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is a summit in the in the U.S. state of . It was named by the United States Geological Survey in 1894 and is located in the .

Peak
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is a mountain in the in Los Angeles County, California with a summit elevation of 5,963+ feet. It was named "Disappointment" in 1894 when USGS surveyors in the Wheeler Survey sighted it from the , believing it to be the highest point in the immediate area, decided to use it as their next triangulation point.

Peak
Photo: Magi Media, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a mountain promontory of the , in the above , in Los Angeles County, California.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Red Box and Altadena.

Locality
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is the name of the junction of the Angeles Crest Highway, the -Red Box Road, and the Rincon-Red Box Road. It is located at the 1,422-meter saddle between and .

Town
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is an unincorporated area, and census-designated place in the and the Verdugos regions of Los Angeles County, California. Directly north of , it is located approximately 14 miles from .

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community located in Los Angeles County, California, , with a population of 1,070 as of 2000. Unlike , a larger unincorporated area nearby, is not an official census-designated place.

Mount Lowe

Latitude
34.23154° or 34° 13′ 54″ north
Longitude
-118.10583° or 118° 6′ 21″ west
Elevation
5,574 feet (1,699 metres)
Open location code
85636VJV+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358788235
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5368910
Wiki­data ID
Q6921904
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ladin—“Mount Lowe” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Mount Lowe (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California, Los Angeles County)”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Lowe”
  • Dutch: “Mount Lowe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت لو (امريكا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت لو”
  • German: “Mount Lowe”
  • Japanese: “ロウ山”
  • Ladin: “Mount Lowe”

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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 Lowe”. Photo: Magi Media, CC BY-SA 3.0.