Great Boiling Spring Park
Great Boiling Spring Park is a park in Nevada, at a recorded elevation of 1,208 m. Granite Peak stands 2,725 m to the north-northwest, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Great Boiling Spring, a hot spring less than a tenth of a mile away. Buckhorn Back Country Byway passes 29 miles off. 88 named places lie within 25 miles, 31 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1208 m
How to reach it
- 28.9 mi off the Buckhorn Back Country Byway
88 named places within 25 miles
- Mud Spring: 8.9 mi
- Antelope Spring: 10.4 mi
- Coyote Spring: 11.5 mi
- Frog Pond: 11.8 mi
- Indian Rock Spring: 12.1 mi
- Granite Point: 0.9 mi
- Godeys Rock: 3.8 mi
- Selenite Peak: 6.5 mi
- Granite Peak: 9.5 mi
- Indian Rock: 11.4 mi
- Planet X Pottery: 6.2 mi
- Center Camp: 11.6 mi
- Center Camp: 11.6 mi
- Fly Geyser: 13.8 mi
- The Bike Bridge: 0.8 mi
- The Man: 12.2 mi
- Temple of the Deep: 12.6 mi
- Great Boiling Spring: 0.0 mi
- Trego Hot Springs: 15.1 mi
- Gerlach Water Tower Park: 0.9 mi
- Deep Hole: 7.3 mi
- Melody Rim: 21.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Great Boiling Spring Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite Peak | NNW 339° | 2,725 m | 9.5 mi |
| Kumiva Peak | SSE 163° | 2,500 m | 18.4 mi |
| The Banjo | NNW 344° | 2,430 m | 12.4 mi |
| Wagon Tire Mountain | NNW 338° | 2,321 m | 16.9 mi |
| Pah-Rum Peak | SSW 210° | 2,280 m | 21.7 mi |
| Purgatory Peak | SSE 169° | 2,242 m | 22.1 mi |
| Luxor Peak | SSE 160° | 2,238 m | 12.7 mi |
| Mount Limbo | SSE 169° | 2,206 m | 22.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:02 | 18:34 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:27 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:46 | 18:20 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:50 | 16:34 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 39 | 46 | 51 | 60 | 70 | 78 | 76 | 67 | 54 | 41 | 32 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gerlach, under a mile away.
- Desert Paintbrush7 obs
- Nevada Jointfir7 obs
- Mormon Cricket5 obs
- Desert Horned Lizard5 obs
- Greasewood4 obs
- Redstem Stork's-bill3 obs
- Long-nosed Leopard Lizard3 obs
- Bud Sagebrush3 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357546973
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