Kirkwood
Kirkwood is an unincorporated community in Alpine and Amador counties, California, United States. Kirkwood's main attraction is the Kirkwood Mountain Resort.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ian McKellar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 190 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Alpine and Amador counties, California, United States
- Also known as: “Kirk”, “Kirkwood, CA”, “Kirkwood, California”, and “Kirkwood’s”
- Postal code: 95646
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kirkwood Mountain Resort and Thunder Mountain.
Kirkwood Mountain Resort
Photo: Gabeguss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kirkwood Mountain Resort, owned by Vail Resorts, is a ski resort in Kirkwood, California, south of Lake Tahoe. The resort focuses on skiing and snowboarding in the winter and hiking and mountain-biking in the summer.
Thunder Mountain
Peak
Thunder Mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California is located east of Silver Lake and west of Kirkwood Mountain Resort in the Eldorado National Forest. Thunder Mountain is situated 2 miles southwest of Kirkwood.
Kirkwood Inn & Saloon
Restaurant
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Kirkwood Inn & Saloon is a restaurant and bar located in Kirkwood, California, United States. It's situated at the intersection of three county lines: Alpine, Amador, and El Dorado counties, at 7,800 feet up.
Kirkwood
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Alpine County, Sierra Nevada, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.7027° or 38° 42′ 10″ northLongitude
-120.0727° or 120° 4′ 22″ westPopulation
190Elevation
7,690 feet (2,344 metres)United Nations Location Code
US KRQOpen location code
84CXPW3G+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 150953525OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Kirkwood” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kirkwood”
- Catalan: “Kirkwood”
- Cebuano: “Kirkwood”
- Chechen: “Кирквуд”
- Chinese: “Kirkwood”
- Chinese: “柯克伍德”
- Croatian: “Kirkwood”
- Dutch: “Kirkwood”
- French: “Kirkwood”
- German: “Kirkwood”
- Gilaki: “کرکوۊد”
- Irish: “Kirkwood”
- Italian: “Kirkwood”
- Japanese: “カークウッド”
- Ladin: “Kirkwood”
- Malagasy: “Kirkwood, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Kirkwood”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kirkwood”
- Newari: “कर्कवूड (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “कर्कवूड, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “कर्कवूड”
- Persian: “کیرکوود، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “کیرکوود”
- Polish: “Kirkwood”
- Portuguese: “Kirkwood”
- Russian: “Керквуд”
- Russian: “Кирквуд”
- Russian: “Кирквуда”
- Serbian: “Кирквуд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kirkwood, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kirkwood”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیرکوود، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Kirkwood (California)”
- Spanish: “Kirkwood”
- Swedish: “Kirkwood, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Kirkwood”
- Tatar: “Кирквуд”
- Turkish: “Kirkwood, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Kirkwood”
- Ukrainian: “Кірквуд”
- Urdu: “کرکووڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
- Volapük: “Kirkwood”
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