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Blue Spring Campsite

Blue Spring Campsite from directly overhead

Blue Spring Campsite is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 254 m. King Mountain stands 463 m to the west-southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Blue Spring, a spring less than a tenth of a mile away. Great River Road passes 110 miles off. 112 named places lie within 25 miles, 16 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
254 m

How to reach it

Coordinates37.05450, -91.63820

112 named places within 25 miles

Springs: 35
  • Blue Spring: 0.0 mi
  • Rymer Spring: 4.0 mi
  • Chimmney Rock Spring: 4.9 mi
  • Alley Spring: 12.9 mi
  • Cave Spring: 13.6 mi
Parks: 21
  • Barn Hollow Natural Area: 3.1 mi
  • Veterans Park: 5.1 mi
  • Creekside Park: 9.1 mi
  • Creekside Park: 9.1 mi
  • Mahan Roadside Park: 16.0 mi
Cliffs: 17
Peaks: 16
  • Angel Ridge: 2.5 mi
  • Jeny Ridge: 3.5 mi
  • High Hill: 10.7 mi
  • Queens Mountain: 14.4 mi
  • King Mountain: 15.2 mi
Ghost towns: 6
Beaches: 4
  • Beach 3: 17.5 mi
  • Beach 2: 17.7 mi
  • Beach 3: 17.7 mi
  • Pulltite: 21.3 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Attractions: 2
Artworks: 1
Natural arches: 1
  • Round Spring Natural Bridge: 20.2 mi
Historic sites: 1
  • Welch Spring Hospital: 23.7 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Rocky Falls: 23.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Blue Spring Campsite. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
King MountainWSW 257°463 m15.2 mi
Queens MountainW 260°446 m14.4 mi
Stegall MountainE 86°409 m24.2 mi
Mule MountainE 86°403 m22.9 mi
Wildcat MountainENE 68°385 m24.1 mi
Coot MountainENE 69°379 m22.8 mi
Tip Top MountainNE 54°377 m22.3 mi
Jerktail MountainENE 58°360 m22.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1118:4419:19
June solstice05:4819:5220:30
September equinox06:5518:3119:05
December solstice07:1716:1316:54

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333746566573787668574637

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Summersville 3 SE, 6 mi away.

  • Longear Sunfish11 obs
  • Banded Sculpin8 obs
  • Black River Madtom8 obs
  • Disjunct Studfish8 obs
  • Rainbow Darter7 obs
  • Whitetail Shiner7 obs
  • Arkansas Saddled Darter7 obs
  • Bleeding Shiner7 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358053549

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