Big Springs
Big Springs is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,457 m. Mount Silliman stands 3,397 m to the east, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Baldy, a peak 1.9 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1457 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Baldy: 1.9 mi
- Chimney Rock: 2.2 mi
- Eshom Point: 2.3 mi
- Redwood Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Buena Vista Peak: 4.1 mi
- Hidden Spring: 4.3 mi
- Warm Sulfur Spring: 7.4 mi
- Cold Sulfer Spring: 7.6 mi
- Slide Spring: 9.9 mi
- Wall Spring: 10.1 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 4.1 mi
- Mark Twain Stump: 5.5 mi
- Crystal Cave: 6.3 mi
- General Grant Tree: 7.5 mi
- Centennial Stump: 7.5 mi
- Viola Falls: 6.6 mi
- Ella Falls: 6.8 mi
- Marble Falls: 9.4 mi
- Tokopah Falls: 12.1 mi
- Panther Creek Falls: 13.0 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 2.6 mi
- Cobble Knoll Recreation Area: 16.5 mi
- Slick Rock Recreation Area: 16.8 mi
- Lake Kaweah Recreation Area: 17.6 mi
- Horse Creek Recreation Area: 18.3 mi
- Old Ranger Station: 8.7 mi
- Stephen Mather memorial plaque: 10.6 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 12.9 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 13.7 mi
- Alles Cabin: 18.3 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 7.2 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 9.6 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 11.8 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 11.8 mi
- Valhalla: 18.6 mi
- Patterson Bluffs: 21.0 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 23.2 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 9.3 mi
- Jumping Rock: 9.4 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 9.6 mi
- Three Rivers Historical Museum: 14.1 mi
- Homer Ranch Preserve: 14.3 mi
- Dry Creek Preserve: 16.8 mi
- Bravo Lake Botanical Garden: 19.5 mi
- Bookie Bear: 20.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.0 miles of Big Springs. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Silliman | E 93° | 3,397 m | 11.6 mi |
| Twin Peaks | E 86° | 3,194 m | 10.9 mi |
| Mitchell Peak | ENE 63° | 3,164 m | 11.9 mi |
| Kettle Peak | E 82° | 3,058 m | 9.7 mi |
| Mount Maddox | ENE 60° | 2,946 m | 10.2 mi |
| Santa Cruz Dome | E 100° | 2,923 m | 11.5 mi |
| Shell Mountain | ENE 64° | 2,920 m | 6.8 mi |
| Lower Tokopah Dome | E 100° | 2,890.7 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:40 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:20 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:04 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 36 | 38 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 66 | 65 | 60 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 8.0 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 6.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Grant Grove, 7 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Kings Canyon National Park.
- Prettyface5 obs
- giant sequoia5 obs
- rainbow iris5 obs
- Leichtlin's Mariposa Lily3 obs
- Littleleaf Ceanothus3 obs
- oblong bluecurls3 obs
- Granite-crack Monkeyflower3 obs
- Brown Creeper2 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/928941745
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