Matterhorn Peak
Matterhorn Peak is located in the Sierra Nevada, in California, at the northern boundary of Yosemite National Park. At 12,285 feet elevation, it is the tallest peak in the craggy Alps-like Sawtooth Ridge and the northernmost 12,000-foot peak in the Sierra Nevada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: G. Thomas, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Burro Pass and Twin Peaks.
Burro Pass
Mountain saddle
Burro Pass, elevation 11,100 feet, is a mountain pass in Yosemite National Park, United States. A United States Geological Survey topographer named the gap after his burro.
Twin Peaks
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Twin Peaks is a mountain in the northern part of Yosemite National Park, north of Tuolumne Meadows. It is the 15th highest mountain in Yosemite National Park.
Whorl Mountain
Peak
Whorl Mountain is a mountain in the northern part of Yosemite National Park, well north of Mount Conness, and barely inside the boundary of Yosemite. Whorl Mountain is the 22nd-highest mountain in Yosemite National Park.
Matterhorn Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 11,985 feet
- Description: mountain in the Sierra Nevada, California, United States
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Tuolumne County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.09303° or 38° 5′ 35″ northLongitude
-119.3817° or 119° 22′ 54″ westElevation
11,985 feet (3,653 metres)Open location code
85C23JV9+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 358795419OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Matterhorn Peak” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Matterhorn Peak (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California)”
- Cebuano: “Matterhorn Peak”
- Czech: “Matterhorn Peak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ماتيرورن پياك (امريكا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ماتيرورن پياك”
- French: “pic Matterhorn”
- French: “Pic Matterhorn”
- German: “Matterhorn Peak (Kalifornien)”
- German: “Matterhorn Peak”
- Italian: “Matterhorn Peak (California)”
- Italian: “Matterhorn Peak”
- Ladin: “Matterhorn Peak”
- Russian: “Маттерхорн Пик”
- Russian: “Маттерхорн-Пик”
- Spanish: “Pico de Matterhorn (California)”
- Spanish: “Pico de Matterhorn”
- Ukrainian: “Маттергорн-пік”
- Urdu: “میٹرہورن پیک”
- Venetian: “Matterhorn Peak (California)”
- Venetian: “Matterhorn Peak”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Twin Lakes Estates and Dunderberg Mill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Dragtooth and Polemonium Pass.
Tuolumne County: Must-Visit Destinations
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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 “Matterhorn Peak”. Photo: G. Thomas, Public domain.