Big Pine Spring
Big Pine Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,974 m. North Palisade stands 4,343 m to the west-southwest, 9.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Piper Peak, a peak 1.1 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Piper Peak: 1.1 mi
- Sugarloaf: 3.8 mi
- Round Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Crater Mountain: 5.4 mi
- Kid Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Grouse Spring: 4.7 mi
- Wilkerson Springs: 7.1 mi
- Uhlmeyer Spring: 7.3 mi
- Fish Springs: 7.8 mi
- Wam Springs: 8.7 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 4.3 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 4.4 mi
- Bishop City Park: 13.8 mi
- Izaak Walton Park: 13.9 mi
- Bulpitt Park: 13.9 mi
- First Falls: 5.0 mi
- Second Falls: 5.3 mi
- Triple Falls: 16.3 mi
- Upper Evolution Creek Falls: 23.2 mi
- Lower Evolution Creek Falls: 23.4 mi
- Windy Cliff: 15.6 mi
- Great Cliffs: 16.5 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 17.7 mi
- Muro Blanco: 19.7 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 23.4 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 10.8 mi
- Piñyon Picnic Area Nature Trail: 14.5 mi
- Schulman Grove Picnic Area: 18.3 mi
- Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center: 13.6 mi
- American Mule Museum: 13.9 mi
- Laws Railroad Museum: 16.0 mi
- Rock Monster: 14.2 mi
- Saline Valley Road OHV Trailhead: 17.6 mi
- Methuselah: 18.4 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 16.9 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 24.2 mi
- Bishop Community Garden: 13.7 mi
- Kearsarge: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.7 miles of Big Pine Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Palisade | WSW 237° | 4,343 m | 9.5 mi |
| Starlight Peak | WSW 238° | 4,323.7 m | 9.5 mi |
| Mount Sill | SW 236° | 4,316 m | 8.9 mi |
| Polemonium Peak | WSW 237° | 4,298.2 m | 9.4 mi |
| Middle Palisade | SW 219° | 4,278.2 m | 8.7 mi |
| Split Mountain | SSW 196° | 4,269 m | 10.6 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | WSW 239° | 4,268 m | 9.5 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | SW 218° | 4,258.6 m | 8.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:31 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:00 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 43 | 49 | 55 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bishop AP, 14 mi away.
- Desert Peach4 obs
- Mojave ceanothus4 obs
- California Buckwheat3 obs
- Paiute false bindweed3 obs
- Big deervetch3 obs
- desert bitterbrush3 obs
- Naked Buckwheat2 obs
- Rubber Rabbitbrush2 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/905593148
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