Devils Postpile National Monument
Devils Postpile National Monument is a United States national monument located in Madera County in the Sierra Nevada region of the state of California.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Frank Kovalchek, CC BY 2.0.
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- Type: Locality
- Description: national monument in California, USA
- Also known as: “DEPO”, “Devil Postpile National Monument”, and “Devils Woodpile”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rainbow Falls and Minaret Summit.
Rainbow Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Frank Kovalchek, CC BY 2.0.
Rainbow Falls is the highest waterfall on the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River, in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains of California, in the United States.
Minaret Summit
Peak
Photo: Mav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Minaret Summit is a mountain pass on Highway 203 in the central Sierra Nevada. The pass, lying on the Madera-Mono County border, is within the Mammoth Ranger District of the Inyo National Forest and located near Devils Postpile National Monument, Mammoth Lakes, and Mammoth Mountain. Minaret Summit is situated 2½ miles northeast of Devils Postpile National Monument.
Devils Postpile National Monument
Latitude
37.6251° or 37° 37′ 31″ northLongitude
-119.0851° or 119° 5′ 6″ westElevation
7,726 feet (2,355 metres)Open location code
8592JWG7+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 358797541GeoNames ID
5342900Wikidata ID
Q729965
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Devils Postpile National Monument” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Devils Postpile National Monument”
- Chinese: “魔鬼柱國家保護區”
- Dutch: “Devils Postpile National Monument”
- Dutch: “Devils Postpile”
- Finnish: “Devils Postpilen kansallismonumenti”
- Finnish: “Devils Postpilen kansallismonumentti”
- French: “Devils Postpile National Monument”
- German: “Devils Postpile National Monument”
- Hebrew: “דווילס פוסטפייל”
- Japanese: “デビルズ・ポストパイル国定公園”
- Polish: “Devils Postpile National Monument”
- Spanish: “Monumento Nacional de Devils Postpile”
- Swedish: “Devils Postpile nationalmonument”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Devils Postpile National Monument”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.