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John Muir Trail

trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, United States of America
Place Trail Q967917

Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
trail, long-distance hiking trail[5]
Inception
August 1915[11]
Native label
John Muir Trail[18]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
California[3]

Population and size

Highest point
Mount Whitney[14]
Length
+338.6[20]
More facts +17
Short name
JMT[19]
Coordinates of easternmost point
🗺️ 36.579°, -118.292°
Coordinates of northernmost point
🗺️ 37.872°, -119.384°
Coordinates of southernmost point
🗺️ 36.560°, -118.295°
Coordinates of westernmost point
🗺️ 37.727°, -119.559°
Cumulative elevation gain
+14871, +12068[28][29]
Described by source
Place Names of the High Sierra[16]
Designed by
Joseph Nisbet LeConte, Wilbur Fisk McClure[7][8]
Discoverer or inventor
Theodore Solomons[2]
Located in protected area
Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Park, Ansel Adams Wilderness, John Muir Wilderness[21][22][23][24][25]
Lowest point
Happy Isles[17]
Mountain range
Sierra Nevada[27]
Named after
John Muir[6]
Offers view on
Yosemite Valley[26]
Significant event
fastest known time, construction[15]
Terminus
Happy Isles, Mount Whitney[9][10]
Terminus location
Yosemite Valley, Whitney Portal[12][13]
🏷️ Also known as
en JMT en John Muir Trail he שביל ג'ון מיור ja ジョン・ミューア・トレイル ko 존 뮤어 트레일 zh 約翰·繆爾步道
🔖 Identifiers · 10
GND ID
4452163-7
BabelNet ID
01432980n
Freebase ID
/m/01fh5x
GeoNames ID
5360955
Hiking Project trail ID
7016162
Natural Atlas ID
2159346
OhRanger.com ID
yosemite/poi/john-muir-trailhead-john-muir-trail
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1244828
Quora topic ID
John-Muir-Trail
Subreddit
JMT
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
3,340 m 2026-09-26 R/TRL · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Located in protected area 5
Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, Ansel Adams Wilderness, John Muir Wilderness
Continent 1
North America
Country 1
United States
Designed by 1
Joseph Nisbet LeConte
Highest point 1
Mount Whitney
Instance of 1
trail
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
California
Mountain range 1
Sierra Nevada
Named after 1
John Muir
Offers view on 1
Yosemite Valley
Terminus 1
Mount Whitney
Terminus location 1
Yosemite Valley
← Carries thoroughfare 1
Forester Pass
← Has climbing route 1
Mount Whitney
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Summary

John Muir Trail is a trail[1].

Related Entities

California John Muir Mount Whitney Sierra Nevada United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . GeoNames. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . fastestknowntime.com. fastestknowntime.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . yosemite.ca.us. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Place Names of the High Sierra. Retrieved . yosemite.ca.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . Waymarked Trails. Retrieved . hiking.waymarkedtrails.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . Waymarked Trails. Retrieved . hiking.waymarkedtrails.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lowest point → Happy Isles
    Cumulative elevation gain → 14,871 metre, 12,068 metre
    Coordinates of westernmost point → 37.727°, -119.559°
    Described by source → Place Names of the High Sierra
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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