Mount Wilson
Mount Wilson is a peak in Los Angeles, Southern California, California and has an elevation of 5,699 feet. Mount Wilson is situated nearby to the locality Newcomb Pass, as well as near Red Box.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Wilson Observatory.
Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory
Photo: Solipsist, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Mount Wilson Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson, a 5,710-foot peak in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, northeast of Los Angeles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Red Box and Kinneloa Mesa.
Red Box
Locality
Photo: Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Red Box is the name of the junction of the Angeles Crest Highway, the Mt. Wilson-Red Box Road, and the Rincon-Red Box Road. It is located at the 1,422-meter saddle between Mount Lawlor and San Gabriel Peak.
Kinneloa Mesa
Hamlet
Kinneloa Mesa is an unincorporated community located in Los Angeles County, California, United States, with a population of 1,070 as of 2000. Unlike Altadena, a larger unincorporated area nearby, Kinneloa Mesa is not an official census-designated place.
Sierra Madre
Town
Sierra Madre is a city in Los Angeles County, California, with a population of 11,268 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census. The city is in the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley below the southern edge of the Angeles National Forest. Pasadena and Altadena are to its west, with Arcadia to its south and east.
Mount Wilson
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 5,699 feet
- Also known as: “Wilson’s Peak” and “威尔逊山”
- Category: landform
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.22387° or 34° 13′ 26″ northLongitude
-118.06119° or 118° 3′ 40″ westElevation
5,699 feet (1,737 metres)Open location code
85636WFQ+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 358794822OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
5409932
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Mount Wilson” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Mont Wilson”
- Cebuano: “Mount Wilson”
- Chinese: “威爾遜山”
- Dutch: “Mount Wilson”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ويلسون”
- Estonian: “Mount Wilson”
- French: “mont Wilson”
- French: “Mont Wilson”
- Hebrew: “הר וילסון שבקליפורניה”
- Japanese: “ウィルソン山”
- Ladin: “Mount Wilson”
- Polish: “Mount Wilson”
- Romanian: “Mount Wilson”
- Spanish: “Monte Wilson”
- Swedish: “Mount Wilson”
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