{"id":861,"date":"2025-08-14T19:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inventwave.com\/w6test\/?p=861"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:59:57","slug":"w6-ct-009-butler-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/2025\/08\/14\/w6-ct-009-butler-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"W6\/CT-009 Butler Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Winter Bonus: 3 Pts December 1 &#8211; March 31<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>POTA: US-4463 San Bernadino National Forest<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nearby summits: W6\/SD-459 4140, W6\/SD-442 5380, W6\/CT-060 7940 (Strip Mine), W6\/CT-053 Gold Mountain, W6\/CT-050 Delamar Mountain, W6\/CT-054 Bertha Peak, W6\/CT-009 Butler Peak<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Full trip report on external link: <a href=\"https:\/\/radioandrides.com\/2025\/08\/04\/tanglewood\/\">Tanglewood<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>From the town of Fawnskin, drove approximately 9 mi along 2N13\/ Butler Lookout Road to the base of the summit.  From here there is a 0.2 mi\/ 100 ft climb to the volunteer-run Lookout Station and summit.  We heard from several sources that this was a driveable road, but we did not find this to be the case.  We actually parked the car 2.5 mi from the summit and hiked the rest.  The Lookout hours are from 9 am &#8211; 5 pm, with a gate closed after hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_5293_lookout_sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_5293_lookout_sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_5293_lookout_sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_5293_lookout_sm-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_5293_lookout_sm-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803_5293_lookout_sm-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hike to the summit from the parking area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_butler-1024x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_butler-1024x533.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_butler-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_butler-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gaiagps_butler.jpg 1353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From Fawnskin (yellow road) one can take the Butler Lookout service road to the summit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Carol KE6SRN and Tom KE6SRO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the town of Fawnskin, drove approximately 9 mi along 2N13\/ Butler Lookout Road to the base of the summit. From here there is a 0.2 mi\/ 100 ft climb to the volunteer-run Lookout Station and summit. We heard from several sources that this was a driveable road, but we did not find this to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tripreports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}