{{short description|Mountain in California, United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Frazier Mountain | image = Frazier Mountain.jpg | image_caption = Frazier Mountain as seen from Frazier Park | elevation_ft = 8017 | elevation_ref = {{NAVD88}}<ref name="ngs">{{cite ngs |id=EW7657 |name=Frazier Reset |accessdate=2009-08-05}}</ref> | prominence = {{convert|2440|ft|0|abbr=on}} | prominence_ref = <ref name="pb">{{cite peakbagger |pid=1268 |name=Frazier Mountain, California |accessdate=2009-08-05}}</ref> | map = California | map_size = 150 | listing = Hundred Peaks Section<ref name="hps">{{cite hps |id=07A |name=Frazier Mountain |accessdate=2010-02-01}}</ref> | location = Los Padres National Forest,<br>Ventura County, California, U.S. | range = Transverse Ranges | coordinates = {{coord|34.774953192|N|118.969109136|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:NGS|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | range_coordinates = | coordinates_ref = <ref name="ngs"/> | topo = USGS Frazier Mountain | native_name = {{native name|inz|Toshololo}} | first_ascent = | easiest_route = Road }}
'''Frazier Mountain''' (Samala: ''<nowiki/>Toshololo'') is a broad, pine-forested peak in the Transverse Ranges System, within the Los Padres National Forest in northeastern Ventura County, California. At {{convert|8017|ft|m|0}},<ref name="ngs"/> Frazier Mountain is the sixteenth-highest mountain in the Transverse Ranges of Southern California.
==Etymology== Frazier Mountain is named after the American miner William T. Frazer (with a spelling alteration), who worked in the area in the 1850s under his company the Frazier Mining Company.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bright|first=William|author-link=William O. Bright|date=1998|title=1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning|location=Berkeley, CA|publisher=University of California Press}}</ref>
To the Chumash people, Frazier Mountain is called Toshololo. In the Samala language it means "mountain of the east", referring to is location east of Iwihinmu (Mount Pinos) and cosmological associations with the morning star and the spring equinox. The mountain is considered sacred to the Chumash people as it is an important part of their history and culture.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=John M. |title=Sacred Sites Of the Chumash Indians of California: Commentary from the writings of John M. Anderson |year=1999}}</ref>
==Geography== alt=|left|thumb|{{center|Snow at the top of Frazier Mountain. February 2019.}} The community of Frazier Park and its outlying district of Lake of the Woods are northward of the mountain. The intersection of Ventura, Los Angeles, and Kern Counties lies just to the northeast. Interstate 5 runs to the east of the mountain, and Southern California Edison's Path 26 500 kV wires are at its eastern foothills.
Mount Pinos is 21.5 miles by road west of Frazier Mountain. Alamo Mountain and the Sespe Condor Sanctuary are to its south.<ref>[http://www.trails.com/topo.aspx?lat=34.666652&lon=-118.959267&s=200&size=s&style=drgsr&name=Alamo%20Mountain Map, trails.com]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.recreationparks.net/CA/ventura/sespe-condor-sanctuary-devils-heart-peak |title=Map, recreationparks.net |access-date=2011-11-22 |archive-date=2016-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206224755/http://www.recreationparks.net/CA/ventura/sespe-condor-sanctuary-devils-heart-peak |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The summit of the mountain is a Forest Service lookout area with radio tower facilities as well as an abandoned fire lookout tower. The highest point is accessible by a forest road that is open when there is no snow present on the mountain.
==See also== * {{C|Transverse Ranges|Transverse Ranges—related topics}} * 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake — ''nearby on the San Andreas fault''.
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == {{commons category}} * {{cite gnis | id = 271211 | name = Frazier Mountain | accessdate = 2009-08-05 }} * {{cite summitpost | id = 517827 | name = Frazier Mountain | accessdate = 2010-01-03 }}
Category:Transverse Ranges Category:Mountains of Ventura County, California Category:Los Padres National Forest Category:Mt. Pinos Ranger District, Los Padres National Forest Category:Mountains of Southern California
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