Bear Wallow Spring
Bear Wallow Spring is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,048 m. Snow Mountain East stands 2,147 m to the northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Pacific Point, a peak 0.6 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1048 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Pacific Point: 0.6 mi
- Split Rock: 3.0 mi
- Cooks Mountain: 5.2 mi
- Chocolate Peak: 5.7 mi
- Gravelly Buttes: 6.1 mi
- Jesse Spring: 4.6 mi
- Allen Springs: 5.7 mi
- Gas Spring: 6.2 mi
- Addington Springs: 6.8 mi
- Freezout Spring: 7.7 mi
- Stonyford OHV Recreation Area: 7.7 mi
- Lucerne Creek Park: 14.1 mi
- Alpine Park: 14.2 mi
- Lucerne Harbor Park: 14.2 mi
- Oaks Plaza Park: 14.3 mi
- Pine Needle Point: 3.1 mi
- Windy Point: 10.8 mi
- Lincoln Bluff: 14.0 mi
- Buckingham Bluffs: 18.1 mi
- Mike Thompson Harbor: 18.8 mi
- Prather Mill Logging Camp: 19.1 mi
- Sheecome Gathering Basket: 21.1 mi
- Lake County Courthouse Museum: 21.3 mi
- Lower Lake Schoolhouse Museum: 21.4 mi
- Sacramento Valley Museum: 23.4 mi
- Big Springs Picnic Ground: 8.8 mi
- Pine Point Day Use Area: 23.9 mi
- Lucerne Christian Conference Center: 14.0 mi
- Lower Lake Stone Jail: 21.4 mi
- Laurel Beach: 15.6 mi
- Dorn beach: 15.8 mi
- Maxwell Rest Area Southbound: 21.8 mi
- Maxwell Rest Area Northbound: 21.9 mi
- Green Army Man: 11.0 mi
- Wilbur Hot Springs: 15.4 mi
- Anderson Marsh Natural Preserve: 20.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.8 miles of Bear Wallow Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snow Mountain East | NW 323° | 2,147 m | 14.3 mi |
| Snow Mountain West | NW 320° | 2,140 m | 14.2 mi |
| Saint John Mountain | NNW 340° | 2,053 m | 15.9 mi |
| Signal Peak | NW 322° | 2,012 m | 15.0 mi |
| Snow Mountain | NW 319° | 1,994 m | 14.9 mi |
| High Rock | NW 320° | 1,929 m | 12.6 mi |
| Goat Mountain | WNW 293° | 1,863 m | 7.3 mi |
| Windy Point | WSW 256° | 1,453 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:47 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:45 | 20:01 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:09 | 16:51 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 47 | 51 | 55 | 63 | 71 | 77 | 75 | 71 | 62 | 51 | 45 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 3.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — East Park Rsvr, 10 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Apr — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 283 | 315 | 257 | 120 | 46.0 | 15.9 | 4.4 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 4.1 | 39.2 | 164 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge NF Cache C A Hough Spring NR Clearlake Oaks CA, 4 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- leather oak2 obs
- knobcone pine2 obs
- McNab cypress2 obs
- Gopher Snake1 obs
- Bitterroot1 obs
- wavy-leafed soap plant1 obs
- Warrior's Plume1 obs
- interior live oak1 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/12055899154
Day trips start here
- Lake County · 12 mi
- Colusa County · 16 mi
- Kelseyville · 21 mi
- Lakeport · 21 mi
- Williams · 24 mi
- Glenn County · 28 mi
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