Big Tenant Spring
Big Tenant Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,185 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the east-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Tenant Spring, a spring 0.5 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Little Tenant Spring: 0.5 mi
- Prefedio Spring: 1.4 mi
- Caughran Spring: 1.6 mi
- Bog Hole Spring: 1.6 mi
- Canary Spring: 2.0 mi
- Ball Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Rough and Ready Mountain: 4.3 mi
- Burke Hill: 4.4 mi
- Quartz Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Saturday Peak: 5.0 mi
- Uffert Park: 10.5 mi
- Lake Isabella Park: 10.7 mi
- Greenhorn Mountain County Park: 13.5 mi
- Father Garces Monument: 13.8 mi
- Kern River County Park: 13.9 mi
- Silver City Ghost Town: 9.9 mi
- California Living Museum: 15.4 mi
- Kern Valley Museum: 18.9 mi
- Kern County Museum Historical Reference Library: 23.2 mi
- Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village: 23.2 mi
- Coso Mines: 12.9 mi
- woody rd: 14.1 mi
- checkpoint: 16.5 mi
- Bakersfield Speedway: 22.0 mi
- Bakersfield Jam: 23.9 mi
- Upper Richbar Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 6.8 mi
- Lower Richbar Picnic Area: 6.9 mi
- Lake Ming County Park: 14.6 mi
- Rattlesnake Canyon: 16.5 mi
- CSLC Open Space: 19.1 mi
- Chalk Cliff: 12.5 mi
- Mon Bluff: 16.9 mi
- Kern Veterans Memorial: 23.4 mi
- Martyr's Rock: 23.5 mi
- Father Francisco Garces: 23.4 mi
- North Beardsley Skatepark: 23.5 mi
- Miracle Hot Springs: 7.3 mi
- Stickneys Ferry: 23.1 mi
- Sister City Gardens: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.4 miles of Big Tenant Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute Peak | ESE 116° | 2,565 m | 17.0 mi |
| Sunday Peak | NNE 16° | 2,531 m | 16.0 mi |
| Brown Peak | ESE 111° | 2,466 m | 14.4 mi |
| Liebel Peak | ESE 104° | 2,452 m | 15.3 mi |
| Portuguese Peak | NNE 15° | 2,417 m | 16.5 mi |
| Inspiration Point | E 101° | 2,387 m | 17.4 mi |
| Breckenridge Mountain | SSE 150° | 2,298 m | 8.7 mi |
| Black Mountain | NNE 32° | 2,267 m | 14.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:36 | 20:14 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:01 | 16:07 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 43 | 46 | 50 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 70 | 65 | 56 | 47 | 41 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glennville, 12 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Aug — fullest in Jun, leanest in Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 205 | 300 | 496 | 812 | 1,222 | 1,612 | 1,389 | 916 | 435 | 300 | 217 | 148 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Kern R NR Democrat Springs(river Only) CA, 3 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Butterfly Mariposa Lily5 obs
- California Newt4 obs
- California buckeye4 obs
- striped adobe lily4 obs
- Menzies' baby blue eyes3 obs
- interior live oak3 obs
- Chia3 obs
- Ornate Checkered Beetle3 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/9421140983
Day trips start here
- Kern County · 22 mi
- Bakersfield · 24 mi
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