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Mount Tamalpais
- Easiest route
- 1.3 km+141 m · about 0.5 h
- Prominence
- 749 m2,456 ft
- Tonight
- 49°FClear · Wind 2 mph NNW
Mount Tamalpais is a 784 m (2,572 ft) mountain in the California Coast Ranges, California, United States.
All facts
- Elevation
- 784 m · 2,572 ft
- Range
- California Coast Ranges
- Region
- California, United States
- Protected area
- Mount Tamalpais State Park
- Coordinates
- 37.9291° N, 122.5777° W
How to get to the top of Mount Tamalpais
3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.
Easiest route: from Road end, 0.5 km W of Mount Tamalpais
- Distance
- 1.3 kmone way
- Climb
- +141 m−45 m (463 ft up)
- Time up
- about 0.5 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
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 Tamalpais 3D map
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Mount Tamalpais terrain and contours
50 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 Tamalpais weather
Today · Clear · 49 / 69°F (9 / 21°C) · Wind 2 mph NW
Mount Tamalpais forecast for the summit, about 199 m.
- Today49°69°–2 mph NW
- Sat47°72°–2 mph N
- Sun49°70°1%0–3 mph NE
- Mon50°66°2%0–6 mph WNW
- Tue49°64°2%2 mph NW
- Wed50°65°–2 mph NNW
- Thu50°63°24%2 mph WNW
Forecast data: NOAA National Weather Service, public domain, model run Oct 23, 21:51 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Tamalpais
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Tamalpais, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.3 km SW
Nearest campsite
Alice Eastwood Group Campground
Nearest trailhead
White Gate Trailhead
All mapped places 9
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 0.3 km SW |
| Parking | 1.7 km SE |
| Parking | 1.8 km ESE |
| Alice Eastwood Group CampgroundCampsite | 2.8 km S |
| Bootjack CampgroundCampsite | 3.1 km SW |
| Pantoll CampgroundCampsite | 3.6 km SW |
| White Gate TrailheadTrailhead | 5.8 km SW |
| Miwok TrailTrailhead | 5.9 km SSE |
| Phyllis Ellman TrailheadTrailhead | 7.4 km E |
How steep is the route to Mount Tamalpais?
The easiest mapped route, 1.4 km from 685 m to 784 m. Steepest stretch: 37°.
- 0–15°1.1 km
- 15–30°0.2 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 20 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 3.5 km, measured from the Mount Tamalpais summit.
Summit list 7
- 1Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak744 m 1.0 km WSW
- 2Knob Hill285 m 1.4 km ENE
- 3Mount Tamalpais West Peak778 m 1.8 km WSW
- 4Mount Tamalpais West Point527 m 2.0 km SW
- 5Pilot Knob340 m 2.4 km NNW
- 6King Mountain228 m 2.7 km ENE
- 7Ross Hill199 m 3.0 km NNE
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3.5 km; 2,488 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- Pacific trillium1,227
- Button's Banana Slug1,080
- Warrior's Plume938
- Coast redwood905
- Tanoak824
- Douglas iris816
Where Mount Tamalpais sits
- Range
- American Cordillera467North American Cordillera271Pacific Coast Ranges119California Coast Ranges7
- Region
- California152United States932North America1,313
Ranked in 1
Nearby places
Alpine Lake↑5.4 km WNW
Lake Merced7 m↑24 km SSE
Lake Anza↑29 km E
Lake Merritt↑31 km ESE
Briones ReservoirLake↑33 km E
More in the California Coast Ranges 6
Mount Tamalpais downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 783 m at the summit; the official height is 784 m.
A 10 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 784 m | — |
| USGS 3DEP lidar | 785 m | +1 m |
| USGS 3DEP 10 m (used on this page) | 783 m | -1 m |
| Copernicus GLO-30 | 779 m | -5 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 766 m | -18 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (public domain)
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-30)
- 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
- 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