Kennedy Peak is a 10,718-foot-elevation (3,267 meter) mountain summit located in Tuolumne County, California, United States.

[5] Kennedy Peak is set in the Emigrant Wilderness on land managed by Stanislaus National Forest.

Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over 2,900 feet (880 meters) above Kennedy Lake in one mile.

[7] Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains.

As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing moisture in the form of rain or snowfall to drop onto the range.