Little Pine Mountain
Little Pine Mountain rises to 1,368 m in California. Big Pine Mountain stands 2,077 m to the northeast, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Pine Spring, a spring 1.0 miles away. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Little Pine Mountain is a mountain in Santa Barbara County, California, in the Los Padres National Forest at the southern edge of the San Rafael Mountains. It separates the drainages of Oso Creek, which flows into the upper Santa Ynez River, from the drainage of Santa Cruz Creek, which flows into the middle section of the river via Lake Cachuma. The mountain is named for a thin grove of Coulter pines located on the summit. The mountain is reached by the Santa Cruz National Recreation Trail, and is a popular day hike and mountain biking route for residents of Santa Barbara during the winter months. There is a camp at Happy Hollow Spring near the summit. The rocks of the lower slopes of the mountain comes from the Franciscan Assemblage, which creates serpentine soils that support a unique chaparral ecosystem. Large deposits of dark-red cinnabar are exposed above ground. The middle slopes of the mountain are dominated by the Espada Formation. The summit largely consists of Matilija Sandstone. There is a small band of Temblor Formation, a Great Valley Sequence unit usually found much farther north, encircling the high ridge of the mountain. North slope outcrops consist largely of Espada Formation rocks, with a band of serpentinite splitting the Espada section in half.
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Wikidata Q18154622, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1368 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Pine Spring: 1.0 mi
- 19 Oaks Spring: 2.2 mi
- Middle Camuesa Spring: 3.7 mi
- Demesio Spring: 5.4 mi
- Mud Spring: 5.5 mi
- Paradise Park: 5.8 mi
- Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park: 7.3 mi
- Rattlesnake Canyon Park: 9.9 mi
- San Antonio Canyon Park: 10.1 mi
- Skofield Park: 10.3 mi
- Alexander Peak: 1.4 mi
- Sage Hill: 4.5 mi
- Camuesa Peak: 4.6 mi
- Loma Alta: 5.3 mi
- Santa Cruz Peak: 6.3 mi
- Hip Hop: 11.7 mi
- Stretching Fox: 11.7 mi
- Boys Night Out: 11.7 mi
- Beacon Of Hope: 11.9 mi
- California Fishroom: 11.9 mi
- root cellar: 9.7 mi
- possible root cellar location: 9.7 mi
- Markowitz Memorial: 9.9 mi
- The Pauper's Cemetery: 10.3 mi
- County Firefighters Memorial: 10.5 mi
- Mission Dam: 9.9 mi
- Canyon: 10.0 mi
- Sycamore Grove: 10.0 mi
- Fallen Forest: 10.0 mi
- Desert: 10.0 mi
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: 11.1 mi
- Adams Center for the Visual Arts: 11.3 mi
- Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art: 11.3 mi
- Carriage Museum: 12.3 mi
- Bossé Toy Train Museum: 12.3 mi
- More Mesa Nude Beach: 13.0 mi
- More Mesa Beach: 13.0 mi
- More Mesa Beach: 13.1 mi
- More Mesa Beach: 13.1 mi
- Hope Ranch Private Beach: 13.1 mi
- Lower Oso Picnic Site: 4.3 mi
- Falls Picnic Site: 4.3 mi
- Red Rock Picnic Site: 4.4 mi
- First Crossing Picnic Site: 4.5 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Site: 4.5 mi
- Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens: 10.1 mi
- Formal Gardens: 11.3 mi
- Mission Rose Garden: 11.4 mi
- Lotusland: 11.9 mi
- Sexton Grove: 12.2 mi
- Sisquoc Condor Sanctuary: 9.8 mi
- San Marcos Foothills Preserve: 9.9 mi
- Modoc Preserve: 11.4 mi
- Casa Dorinda Oak Woodland: 13.2 mi
- Goleta Slough Ecological Reserve: 13.7 mi
- Wellhouse Falls: 5.7 mi
- Seven Falls: 8.9 mi
- Sisquoc Falls: 9.9 mi
- Tangerine Falls: 10.1 mi
- Hot Springs Falls: 11.4 mi
- Barger Bluff: 7.8 mi
- Fire Crags: 8.0 mi
- Lizards Mouth: 10.0 mi
- San Ysidro Rock: 12.1 mi
- San Roque Arch: 8.3 mi
- Elusive Arch: 10.7 mi
- Little Caliente Spring: 7.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Little Pine Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Pine Mountain | NE 36° | 2,077 m | 8.3 mi |
| Madulce Peak | NE 53° | 1,993 m | 10.5 mi |
| San Rafael Mountain | NNW 331° | 1,973 m | 8.7 mi |
| McKinley Mountain | NW 319° | 1,887 m | 9.3 mi |
| Samon Peak | NNE 30° | 1,840 m | 10.7 mi |
| Monte Arido | ESE 105° | 1,831 m | 16.0 mi |
| Cuyama Peak | NE 55° | 1,787 m | 18.3 mi |
| Peak Mountain | NNW 342° | 1,773 m | 21.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:38 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:39 | 20:16 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:24 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:14 | 16:53 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jan–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 51 | 52 | 54 | 58 | 63 | 69 | 74 | 75 | 71 | 64 | 57 | 49 |
| Precip in | 7.1 | 7.6 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gibraltar DAM #2, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1660928 — Little Pine Mountain, Santa Barbara County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358808264
Day trips start here
- Goleta · 12 mi
- Cachuma Lake Recreation Area · 13 mi
- Montecito · 13 mi
- Santa Barbara · 13 mi
- Santa Barbara County · 17 mi
- Carpinteria · 19 mi
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