Basket Spring
Basket Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 938 m. Junipero Serra Peak stands 1,784 m to the north, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Bane Spring, a spring 0.5 miles away. Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 passes 4.6 miles off. 147 named places lie within 25 miles, 56 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 4.6 mi off the Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1, National
- 7.9 mi off the San Luis Obispo North Coast Byway - Route 1, National
Overlooks nearby
- Breaker Point · 9 mi
- Point Sierra Nevada · 10 mi
- Seal Point · 18 mi
- Elephant Seal Vista Point · 18 mi
147 named places within 25 miles
- Alder Peak: 1.7 mi
- Willow Peak: 2.1 mi
- San Martin Top: 3.1 mi
- Silver Peak: 4.2 mi
- Lion Peak: 4.6 mi
- Hearst San Simeon State Historic Monument: 19.8 mi
- Old oak park: 20.2 mi
- Pine Meadows Park 2: 22.0 mi
- Pine Meadows Park 1: 22.1 mi
- Pine Canyon Mobile Estates Rec Area: 22.2 mi
- Silver Peak Wilderness: 3.5 mi
- Bear Canyon Wilderness Study Area: 13.8 mi
- Piedras Blancas State Marine Conservation Area: 15.6 mi
- Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve: 16.0 mi
- Landels-Hill Big Creek Nature Reserve: 17.3 mi
- Pacific Valley Drinking Fountain (disused): 5.5 mi
- Drinking Fountain (abandoned): 10.6 mi
- Devil's Falls: 15.3 mi
- Rigdon Drinking Fountain (disused): 16.2 mi
- Nacimiento Grizzly Bend: 20.3 mi
- Jewel Falls: 2.9 mi
- Manning Falls: 5.3 mi
- Upper Salmon Creek Falls: 5.5 mi
- Salmon Creek Falls: 6.4 mi
- Middle Fork Falls: 11.2 mi
- Bane Spring: 0.5 mi
- Buckeye Spring: 4.9 mi
- Dutra Spring: 6.6 mi
- Lottie Potrero Spring: 7.5 mi
- Redwood Spring: 9.0 mi
- Limekilns: 11.5 mi
- Hearst Castle: 18.9 mi
- Bill Cotta Memorial: 20.1 mi
- Santa Lucia Adobe: 22.7 mi
- Old Salinas River Bridge Ruins: 23.6 mi
- Willow Creek Picnic Ground: 5.6 mi
- Sand Dollar Picnic Area and Beach: 5.9 mi
- Mill Creek Day Use Area: 8.9 mi
- Arroyo Seco Day Use: 23.5 mi
- DeAnza Picnic Site: 23.8 mi
- Father Junipero Serra: 9.7 mi
- Puente Big Creek Bridge: 17.3 mi
- Sculptures of the Goddess Sekhmet: 18.9 mi
- Sand Dollar Beach: 6.1 mi
- William Randolph Hearst Memorial Beach: 20.8 mi
- The Shut-In: 13.1 mi
- Piedras Blancas Light Station: 17.4 mi
- Memorial Rose Garden: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Basket Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junipero Serra Peak | N 349° | 1,784 m | 16.6 mi |
| Pinyon Peak | N 357° | 1,602 m | 18.0 mi |
| Cone Peak | NW 323° | 1,572 m | 12.4 mi |
| Twin Peak | NW 321° | 1,468 m | 12.8 mi |
| Bear Mountain | N 357° | 1,451 m | 17.3 mi |
| Black Cone | NNW 329° | 1,363 m | 24.7 mi |
| Anderson Peak | NW 320° | 1,249 m | 24.4 mi |
| Marble Peak | NW 321° | 1,223 m | 23.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:44 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:48 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 16:16 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 53 | 52 | 55 | 56 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 68 | 69 | 65 | 58 | 52 |
| Precip in | 6.0 | 6.2 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 6.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hearst Castle, 19 mi away.
- Western Wallflower13 obs
- Brewer's rockcress8 obs
- California milkweed5 obs
- Butterfly Mariposa Lily4 obs
- Felt Paintbrush4 obs
- chaparral yucca4 obs
- bajada lupine4 obs
- California flannelbush4 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/2145173916
Day trips start here
- King City · 25 mi
- Central Coast · 26 mi
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