Mountain Springs County Park
Mountain Springs County Park is a park in California, at a recorded elevation of 742 m. Monument Peak stands 1,904 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Mountain Spring, a spring 0.2 miles away. 94 named places lie within 25 miles, 36 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 742 m
How to reach it
94 named places within 25 miles
- Table Mountain (Mat-Kusiyaay): 2.1 mi
- Mat Kwa'Kurr: 2.4 mi
- Blue Angels Peak: 3.8 mi
- Gray Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Cerro la Miel: 4.8 mi
- Mountain Spring: 0.2 mi
- Hayden Spring: 2.0 mi
- Dos Cabezas Spring: 3.4 mi
- Lone Tiger Spring: 4.4 mi
- Camp Sizzle Spring: 4.4 mi
- Stage Station Historical Marker: 0.4 mi
- Desert View Tower: 1.2 mi
- Mountain Springs Station: 1.2 mi
- Passenger Cars: 4.8 mi
- wrecked train cars: 6.9 mi
- In-Ko-Pah County Park: 1.8 mi
- Jacumba Community Park: 6.1 mi
- Ocotillo Community Park: 7.3 mi
- John Estevane Park: 8.0 mi
- Desert View Picnic Area: 22.3 mi
- Coyote's Flying Saucer Retrieval and Repair Service: 1.4 mi
- Crucifixion thorn: 12.6 mi
- "Hollywood & Vine" Street Sign: 17.0 mi
- Dry Falls: 4.1 mi
- Kitchen Creek Falls: 21.3 mi
- Cottonwood Creek: 24.4 mi
- Imperial Valley Desert Museum: 7.4 mi
- Pacific Southwest Railway Museum: 21.4 mi
- Gaskill Brothers' Stone Store Museum: 21.8 mi
- Yuha Geoglyph: 12.3 mi
- geoglyph: 12.5 mi
- Aztec Woods: 22.0 mi
- Agua Caliente County Park: 22.2 mi
- Desert View Picnic Area: 22.3 mi
- Desert View Picnic Area: 22.3 mi
- Buckman Springs Rest Area: 22.6 mi
- Mud Palisades: 24.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mountain Springs County Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monument Peak | NW 310° | 1,904 m | 23.6 mi |
| Wooded Hill | WNW 302° | 1,894 m | 22.8 mi |
| Stephenson Peak | NW 308° | 1,889 m | 22.6 mi |
| Piñon Point | NW 307° | 1,832 m | 22.5 mi |
| Sheephead Mountain | WNW 296° | 1,792 m | 23.0 mi |
| Mount Tule | WNW 285° | 1,416.4 m | 7.2 mi |
| Blue Angels Peak | SSE 165° | 1,386.2 m | 3.8 mi |
| Red Top | NW 317° | 1,355 m | 19.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:56 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:20 | 19:56 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:10 | 18:43 |
| December solstice | 06:43 | 16:06 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Tijuana).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 48 | 50 | 53 | 59 | 65 | 72 | 74 | 69 | 61 | 53 | 47 |
| Precip in | 2.4 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Campo Asos, 21 mi away.
- Common Side-blotched Lizard299 obs
- Banded Rock Lizard215 obs
- Engelmann's Hedgehog Cactus211 obs
- desert agave165 obs
- Wolf's cholla160 obs
- Peninsular fishhook cactus134 obs
- California Barrel Cactus132 obs
- Bigelow's nolina125 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358844497
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