Telescope Peak, California

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 11,052 ft / 3368 m
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	36° 10' 12'' N, 117° 5' 21'' W 36.169996, -117.089189 (Dec Deg) 491979 E 4002807 N, Zone 11 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	California
County/Second Level Region	Inyo
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Telescope Peak":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Telescope Peak at SummitPost.org      Telescope Peak at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Telescope Peak at Mountain-Forecast.com      Telescope Peak at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio) Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Telescope Peak:      Ultras of the Contiguous United States (Rank #22)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 5000 feet of Prominence (Rank #22)      USA Lower 48 Top 100 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #22)      USA Peaks with 6000 feet of Prominence (Rank #55)      Top 10 Prominence Grid for U.S. States (Rank #35)      USA Lower 48 Peaks with 4000 feet of Prominence (Rank #22)      California Peaks with 25 Miles of Isolation (Rank #11)      Desert Peaks Section Emblem Peaks (Rank #3)      Las Vegas Mountaineers Classics (Rank #30)      Most Prominent Peaks of US National Parks (Rank #13)      U.S. National Park High Points (Rank #13)      Non-Sierra California 10,000-foot Peaks (Rank #24)      USA Lower 48 Top 400 Peaks by Prominence (Rank #22)      Western States Climbers Star Peaks (Rank #82)      California Peaks with 2000 feet of Prominence (Rank #7)      USA Lower 48 Range5 High Points (Rank #115)      Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section (Rank #16)      Western USA Peaks with 25 miles of Isolation (Rank #65)      Comprehensive Combo Angeles Chapter List (Rank #220)      Western States Climbers List (Rank #167)      Bartell's Death Valley National Park List (Rank #1) (Peak is on over 20 lists; Not all shown here.) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Desert Summits (Zdon)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 734      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 689) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      1946-06-02 by Frederick Johnson      1998-09-10 by Richard Carey      2011-10-01 by Sean Rowe (GPS Track)      2012-01-07 by Peter James (GPS Track)      2012-05-28 by Miriam Khamis (GPS Track)      2014-04-05 by Rich Stephens      2014-06-22 by Rob Woodall (GPS Track)      2014-10-11 by Miriam Khamis      2014-10-11 by Marit Chrislock-Lauterbach      2015-08-01 by Ray Thompson      2016-08-24 by Gretchen Nelson      2016-10-04 by Eric Schafer (GPS Track)      2016-10-08 by Andrew Kirmse      2016-10-09 by Jason Park (GPS Track)      2016-11-19 by Patrick Bergeron (GPS Track)      2017-05-28 by robert kunc (GPS Track)      2017-06-03 by Stacey Kassan (GPS Track)      2017-07-05 by Mitch Mitchell (GPS Track)      2017-11-24 by Michael Sullivan (GPS Track)      2017-11-24 by Sergey Lazutin (GPS Track)      2017-12-24 by Zack Lewis (GPS Track)      2017-12-24 by Max Shayer (GPS Track)      2018-03-10 by Marcus Lostracco (GPS Track)      2018-04-28 by Ray Thompson      2018-05-27 by Mark Arildsen (GPS Track)      2018-06-06 by Jon Avery (GPS Track)      2018-10-31 by Dustin Wittmier (GPS Track)      2018-11-11 by William Chen (GPS Track)      2019-06-16 by Ryan Turner (GPS Track)      2019-06-18 by Jerry Thomas (GPS Track)      2019-11-15 by David Sharg (GPS Track)      2020-07-24 by Andrew Mack      2020-08-13 by Jim Wick (GPS Track)      2020-08-30 by Rob Hernquist      2020-10-17 by Garret Stoops (GPS Track)      2020-11-04 by Matt Varney (GPS Track)      2020-11-07 by Robert Luher (GPS Track)      2020-11-14 by Thomas Brennan (GPS Track)      2021-02-25 by Rafee Memon (GPS Track)
Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Telescope Peak      Elevation Ladder from Telescope Peak      Prominence Ladder from Telescope Peak

Sunrise on Telescope Peak (2014-04-01). Photo by Josh Lingbloom. Click here for larger-size photo.
Web Map Links	Peakfinder Panorama GeoHack Links   CalTopo   MyTopo   Bing Maps Google Maps   Open Street Map
Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 6168 ft/1880 m   Optimistic Prominence: 6208 ft/1892 m   Line Parent: Keynot Peak   Key Col: 4880 ft/1487 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 57.19 mi/92.04 km    Isolation Limit Point: 36.274089, -118.104842 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Ed Lane Point  (W)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Intermountain West Range3: Great Basin Ranges Range4: West Great Basin Ranges Range5: Panamint Range (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Death Valley Great Basin Internal Drainage-N.A. Worldwide Internal Drainage Panamint Valley Great Basin Internal Drainage-N.A. Worldwide Internal Drainage
Ownership	Land: Death Valley National Park (Highest Point) Wilderness/Special Area: Death Valley Wilderness Area (Highest Point)
Topo Map	Telescope Peak O36117b1 1:24,000
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
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Other Photos

Sitting atop Telescope Peak, June, 2007 (2007-06-16). Photo by Larry Edmonds. Click here for larger-size photo.

View at the Death Valley, 2 vertical miles below from the summit ridge of Telescope Peak (2015-07-31). Photo by Serguei Okountsev. Click here for larger-size photo.

An ancient Bristle Cone pine and the lowest point in North America, Badwater. (282 feet below sea level) (2016-05-13). Photo by Gerry Pennington. Click here for larger-size photo.

A view of Badwater (-282 ft.) from Telescope Peak summit (11,043) Gerry Pennington Spring Creek, Nevada (2016-05-13). Photo by Gerry Pennington. Click here for larger-size photo.

Telescope Peak, CA from Wildrose Peak, CA (2013-06-30). Photo by Jerry Beals. Click here for larger-size photo.

We made it to the top. Hooray! (2016-08-24). Photo by Gretchen Nelson. Click here for larger-size photo.

Great weather & super views (2016-08-24). Photo by Gretchen Nelson. Click here for larger-size photo.

Benchmark I don't know why some marks have elevation & name of peak & some do not (2016-08-24). Photo by Gretchen Nelson. Click here for larger-size photo.

Map of road closure to Telescope & Wildrose in Death Valley Photo by Gretchen Nelson. Click here for larger-size photo.

Thought this was cool. (2016-11-09). Photo by Larry Orabuena. Click here for larger-size photo.

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