Palisade Basin

Palisade Basin is a depression in Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California and has an elevation of 11,211 feet.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Columbine Peak and North Palisade.

Columbine Peak

Peak

Columbine Peak is a 12,662-foot-elevation mountain summit located 1.5 miles west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Fresno County of northern California, United States.

North Palisade is the third-highest mountain in the Sierra Nevada range of California, and one of the state's small number of peaks over 14,000 feet, known as fourteeners. North Palisade is situated 1½ miles northeast of Palisade Basin.

Thunderbolt Peak

Peak

Photo: Jonathan Fox, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thunderbolt Peak is a peak in the Palisades group located in the Sierra Nevada of California. It rises to 14,009 feet and could be considered the thirteenth-highest peak in the state, but since the peak has less than 300 feet of prominence it is usually considered a subsidiary peak of North Palisade. Thunderbolt Peak is situated 1½ miles northeast of Palisade Basin.

Palisade Basin

Type: Depression with an elevation of 11,211 feet
Category: landform
Location: Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.07993° or 37° 4′ 48″ north

Longitude

-118.53622° or 118° 32′ 10″ west

Elevation

11,211 feet (3,417 metres)

Open location code

85933FH7+XG

GeoNames ID

5380576

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Satellite Map

Discover Palisade Basin from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Aspendell and Peterson Mill.

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