Florence Peak is a
mountain located on the
Great Western Divide, a sub-range of the southern
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...
of
California. It is located about southeast of the community of
Silver City and from the roads end at
Mineral King
Mineral King is a subalpine glacial valley located in the southern part of Sequoia National Park, in the U.S. state of California. The valley lies at the headwaters of the East Fork of the Kaweah River, which rises at the eastern part of the vall ...
. It marks the southern boundary of
Sequoia National Park. On the summit the
Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness, the
John Krebs Wilderness
Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief of ...
and
Golden Trout Wilderness
The Golden Trout Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada, in Tulare County and Inyo County, California. It is located east of Porterville within Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest.
It is in ...
meet.
Geography
The peak rises to an elevation of , making it one of the highest mountains south of
Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; ''Too-man-i-goo-yah'') is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of . It is in East–Central California, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tu ...
. The Franklin Lakes, a series of
tarns, lie in a
cirque
A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...
on north side of the peak and these drain into the
Kaweah River by way of Franklin Creek. The eastern slopes drain into the
Kern River. The southwestern flank drains into the
Bullfrog Lakes and thence into the Little Kern River.
The high elevation of the peak means that most of the precipitation it receives falls as snow.
References
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Mountains of Sequoia National Park
Mountains of Tulare County, California
Inyo National Forest
Mountains of Northern California
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