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Donohue Pass
- Tonight
- 18°FPartly cloudy · Wind 15–25 mph ENE
Donohue Pass is a mountain pass at 3,364 m in California, United States.
All facts
- Saddle
- 3,364 m
- Lowest point
- 3,034 m / 2,951 m
Donohue Pass: the climb from each side
No mapped road or trail crosses the saddle.
Distances are straight lines from the saddle to the lowest ground on each side; the road is longer.
Donohue Pass 3D map
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Donohue Pass terrain and contours
50 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Donohue Pass elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Donohue Pass weather
Today · Partly cloudy · 18 / 28°F (-8 / -2°C) · 8% chance of precipitation · Wind 15 mph ENE
Donohue Pass forecast for about 3,493 m.
- Today18°28°8%15 mph ENE
- Sat22°36°–5–20 mph ENE
- Sun24°40°–5 mph SW
- Mon23°38°1%10–25 mph SW
- Tue25°39°2%0–15 mph SW
- Wed25°38°6%0–5 mph SW
- Thu23°35°15%5–10 mph SSW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 23:30 UTC.
Slope
Share of the 8 × 8 km view by steepness, from the 10 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 22.0% of the 64 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,262 m low point 2,731 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4 km of Donohue Pass.
Summit list 5
- 1Donohue Peak3,651 m 2.3 km NE
- 2Mount Lyell3,997 m 3.1 km SW
- 3Mount Andrea Lawrence3,730 m 3.3 km NE
- 4Mount Maclure3,933 m 3.4 km WSW
- 5Rodgers Peak3,956 m 4.0 km SSW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 4 km; 194 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Western moss-heather26
- Yellow-bellied Marmot25
- Purple Mountain-heath25
- Frosted Buckwheat17
- Whitebark Pine15
- Mountain hemlock15
Where Donohue Pass sits
- Region
- California152United States932North America1,313
- Protected area
- Yosemite Wilderness3
Nearby places
Lyell Glacier↑2.7 km SW
Mount LyellPeak · 3,997 m↑3.1 km SW
Thousand Island Lake2,997 m↑7.2 km SE
June Lake2,323 m↑16 km ENE
Tioga Pass3,031 m↑17 km N
More in the Sierra Nevada 6
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Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-30)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from NOAA National Weather Service (public domain)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia