Mount Whitney
Highest mountain in California and the contiguous United States.
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.

Some 1.4M visitors a year come to Sequoia National Park. With nothing inside Darwin, the list has 4 places within 40 miles. There are 2 national parks, a lake and a canyon & gorge to choose from. The big name further out is Mount Whitney, 45 mi from the centre.

Highest mountain in California and the contiguous United States.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
Most of the 4 out of town lie to the northwest.
Orange: Darwin. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
All of it lies within 60 miles: 16 places.
Highest mountain in California and the contiguous United States.
National park in the Sierra Nevada mountains, California, U.S..
National park in California and Nevada in the United States.
World War II Japanese-American internment camp in California.
National park in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, USA.
Hiking trail to the summit of Mount Whitney in California, United States.
Military museum in Ridgecrest, California.
Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Darwin → · Darwin’s history →
Mount Whitney: Geographer (talk · contribs), CC BY 1.0 · Sequoia National Park: Alberto Carrasco Casado, CC BY 2.0 · Death Valley National Park: Greg Willis from Denver, CO, usa, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Manzanar National Historic Site: Dorothea Lange, Public domain · Kings Canyon National Park: NileGuide.com (Josh Steinitz), CC BY 2.0 · Owens Lake: Picture prepared for Wikipedia by Adrian Pingstone in November 2003., Public domain · Sequoia National Forest: US Forest Service, Public domain · Mount Whitney Trail: Sanjoy Ghosh, CC BY 2.0 · Trona Pinnacles: Doug Dolde at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Rainbow Canyon: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dante's View: Roger469, Public domain · Giant Sequoia National Monument: Jason Hickey, CC BY 2.0 · Goldwell Open Air Museum: Finetooth, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eastern California Museum: Liambruckercasey, CC0 · Maturango Museum: Qfl247 (talk) (Transferred by Citypeek/Original uploaded by Qfl247), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Naval Museum of Armament & Technology: U.S. Navy photo by Geoffrey Patrick., Public domain