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Alder Spring

Alder Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Alder Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,117 m. Condrey Mountain stands 2,164 m to the east-northeast, 9.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Cypress Ridge, a peak 1.0 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.88141, -123.14920

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Springs: 20
Attractions: 11
  • Cook and Green Trailhead: 7.0 mi
  • Stein butte trailhead: 9.0 mi
  • Fir glade trailhead: 11.2 mi
  • Bigfoot Trap: 12.1 mi
  • Sugar pine river access: 13.6 mi
Parks: 5
  • Happy Camp River Park: 12.9 mi
  • Tunnel Ridge Recreation Site: 22.7 mi
  • Little Applegate Recreation Site: 23.2 mi
  • Cantrall Buckley County Park: 24.0 mi
  • City Park: 24.7 mi
Waterfalls: 4
  • Horsetail Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Ponytail Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Maple Falls: 16.3 mi
  • Loretta Falls: 21.3 mi
Historic sites: 3
Museums: 3
Cliffs: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Seattle Bar Day Use Area: 9.0 mi
Beaches: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Alder Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Condrey MountainENE 66°2,164 m9.6 mi
Tom Martin PeakSSE 159°2,140 m10.5 mi
Scraggy MountainNE 54°2,117 m9.3 mi
Lake MountainS 175°2,096 m9.2 mi
Dry Lake MountainE 80°2,063 m10.9 mi
Red ButteNNW 332°2,054 m3.8 mi
Kangaroo MountainNW 316°2,040 m3.7 mi
Arnold MountainNW 319°2,026.31 m12.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1718:4819:25
June solstice05:3820:1020:52
September equinox07:0118:3519:11
December solstice07:3816:0016:45

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404347515965727165554539
Precip in4.43.03.02.11.40.70.50.40.62.33.95.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ruch, 24 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Aug.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs5,1925,5895,9735,6524,8773,0791,5691,3371,5121,9262,6624,074

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Klamath R NR Seiad Valley CA, 5 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • Broad-leaved Stonecrop9 obs
  • deerbrush ceanothus7 obs
  • Flat Spurred Piperia7 obs
  • Siskiyou Mountains Salamander6 obs
  • Cobwebby Thistle6 obs
  • Ensatina4 obs
  • Pacific Bleeding Heart4 obs
  • scarlet fritillary4 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/5954605295

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