Milestone Mountain is a
thirteener
In mountaineering in the United States, a thirteener (abbreviated 13er) is a mountain that exceeds above mean sea level, similar to the more familiar "fourteeners," which exceed . In most instances, "thirteeners" refers only to those peaks betwe ...
on the
Great Western Divide,
a subrange of the
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 primari ...
. The summit marks a point on the boundary between
Sequoia and
Kings Canyon national parks. It is south of
Midway Mountain and northeast of
Triple Divide Peak. It takes its name from the shape of the obelisk on its peak, and has been called this since at least 1873.
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{{Kings Canyon National Park
Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park
Mountains of Sequoia National Park
Mountains of Tulare County, California
Mountains of Northern California