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Mount Jefferson
- Mapped trail
- 9.2 km+1,123 m · about 4 h · T4Ends 840 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 1,762 m5,781 ft
- Isolation
- 64 km
- Tonight
- 22°FFair · Wind 6–10 mph E
Mount Jefferson is a 3,199 m (10,495 ft) mountain in the Oregon Cascades, Oregon, United States.
All facts
- Elevation
- 3,199 m · 10,495 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Mount Hood (3,425 m)
- Range
- Oregon Cascades
- Region
- Oregon, United States
- Protected area
- Willamette National Forest
- Coordinates
- 44.6743° N, 121.7996° W
Trails toward Mount Jefferson
Mapped trails from the road get to 840 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.
Easiest route: from Whitewater Trailhead (parking)
- Distance
- 9.2 kmone way
- Climb
- +1,123 m−18 m (3,684 ft up)
- Time up
- about 4 h
- Difficulty
- T4Alpine: faint path, hands needed in places
Ends 840 m below the summit.
Other routes 2
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Mount Jefferson 3D map
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Mount Jefferson terrain and contours
100 m contours from the USGS 3DEP 10 m terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Mount Jefferson weather
Today · Clear · 22 / 29°F (-6 / -2°C) · Wind 7 mph N
Mount Jefferson forecast for the summit, about 2,799 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,153 m.
- Today22°29°–7 mph NBase 32 / 46°
- Sat30°40°11%2–9 mph SWBase 40 / 58°
- Sun27°36°49%5–12 mph SWBase 38 / 54°
- Mon26°29°65%5–14 mph SWBase 37 / 47°
- Tue24°29°29%3–10 mph SWBase 35 / 47°
- Wed24°29°31%6–12 mph SWBase 34 / 48°
- Thu25°31°15%2–14 mph SEBase 34 / 49°
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 24, 00:41 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Jefferson
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Jefferson, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
4.0 km NNW
Nearest parking
Woodpecker Trailhead
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Campsite | 4.0 km NNW |
| Campsite | 4.4 km NNW |
| Campsite | 4.5 km N |
| Woodpecker TrailheadParking | 6.8 km W |
| Whitewater TrailheadParking | 7.0 km WNW |
| Pamelia Lake TrailheadParking | 7.5 km WSW |
How steep is the route to Mount Jefferson?
The easiest mapped route, 9.2 km from 1,258 m to 2,363 m. Steepest stretch: 26°.
- 0–15°7.9 km
- 15–30°1.3 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 110 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
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 5.5 km, measured from the Mount Jefferson summit.
Summit list 4
- 1Goat Peak2,182 m 3.5 km S
- 2Sentinel Hills1,801 m 5.2 km NW
- 3Park Butte2,088 m 5.2 km N
- 4Grizzly Peak1,768 m 5.4 km SW
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 5.5 km; 292 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Lewis' monkeyflower22
- Mountain paintbrush20
- Pacific rhododendron18
- California Tortoiseshell15
- Pacific Bleeding Heart15
- Mountain Bog Gentian15
Where Mount Jefferson sits
- Range
- American Cordillera467North American Cordillera271Pacific Coast Ranges119Cascade Range35Oregon Cascades8
- Region
- Oregon44United States932North America1,313
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Suttle Lake1,049 m↑29 km S
Lake Billy Chinook↑36 km ESE
Clear Lake918 m↑38 km SSW
Timothy Lake↑50 km N
Little Crater Lake↑53 km N
More 1
More in the Oregon Cascades 6
Mount Jefferson downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 3,201 m at the summit; the official height is 3,199 m.
A 10 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal. The 90 m model misses by 64 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 3,199 m | — |
| USGS 3DEP 10 m (used on this page) | 3,201 m | +2 m |
| Copernicus GLO-30 | 3,161 m | -38 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 3,135 m | -64 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-08)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Protected area
- USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US (public domain)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Accuracy comparison
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © 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.
- Accuracy comparison, 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