Leavitt Peak is located in the Emigrant Wilderness near Sonora Pass in the eastern Sierra Nevada range of California.

He built a hotel and home in 1863 at the foot of the east end of Sonora Pass[7] to serve the growing number of travelers between Sonora and Aurora, primarily miners headed to the gold mines at nearby Bodie.

[9] 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.

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