Broko Spring
Broko Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 288 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the east, 3.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Cataract Falls, a waterfall 0.3 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Oat Hill: 0.9 mi
- Twin Knolls: 1.0 mi
- Serpentine Point: 1.1 mi
- Ballou Point: 1.7 mi
- Liberty Peak: 1.8 mi
- Music Stand: 1.1 mi
- Throne: 1.5 mi
- Sitting Bull Rock and memorial: 3.4 mi
- Old Sawmill: 4.8 mi
- The Rosebowl: 5.4 mi
- Potrero Camp: 1.3 mi
- Barth's Retreat: 1.3 mi
- Rifle Camp: 1.6 mi
- Bolinas Park: 4.1 mi
- Hunt Camp: 5.1 mi
- Mount Tamalpais Game Refuge: 1.7 mi
- Bolinas Community Park: 3.4 mi
- Natalie Coffin Greene Park: 3.5 mi
- Ross Open Space: 3.6 mi
- Ross Open Space: 3.7 mi
- Martin Griffin Preserve: 2.7 mi
- Elliott Nature Preserve: 2.9 mi
- Cascade Canyon Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Baltimore Canyon Open Space Preserve: 3.8 mi
- Muir Woods National Monument: 4.0 mi
- Stinson tree: 3.3 mi
- Founders Grove: 4.3 mi
- Redwood Tree Slice: 4.4 mi
- Marin Art & Garden Center, Ross: 4.6 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 6.3 mi
- Bolinas Museum: 3.4 mi
- Marin Museum of Bicycling: 4.3 mi
- Marin County Historical Society Museum: 6.2 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 6.5 mi
- Bartolini Gallery: 7.2 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 5.7 mi
- Terra Linda Community Garden: 6.2 mi
- Lauren Place: 6.3 mi
- Canal Community Garden: 7.5 mi
- Miller Creek Middle School Community Garden: 8.0 mi
- Tamalpais Maiden: 6.0 mi
- Blackie Horse Statue: 8.3 mi
- Tiburon Portugese Mural Wall: 8.6 mi
- Guardian of the Gate North (Totem 5 of 8): 9.0 mi
- Close to the Wind: 9.3 mi
- Stinson Beach: 2.9 mi
- Bolinas Beach: 3.5 mi
- Slide Ranch North Beach: 4.6 mi
- Agate Beach: 5.0 mi
- Muir Beach: 6.1 mi
- Cataract Falls: 0.3 mi
- Helen Markt Falls: 0.4 mi
- Midway Falls: 0.6 mi
- Laurel Dell Falls: 0.8 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 2.4 mi
- Rock Springs: 2.0 mi
- Colier Spring: 2.1 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 3.1 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 3.2 mi
- Worn Springs: 3.4 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 10.0 mi
- Quarters A: 17.2 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 17.2 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 21.5 mi
- Paint Storage: 21.5 mi
- Vent 5: 4.1 mi
- Rock Fort: 5.5 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 11.1 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 13.9 mi
- Aramai Point: 23.9 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 9.3 mi
- Temple: 9.8 mi
- Keyhole: 10.3 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 3.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.9 miles of Broko Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | E 99° | 784 m | 3.0 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | ESE 114° | 778 m | 2.1 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | ESE 105° | 744 m | 2.5 mi |
| Ballou Point | SSE 165° | 612 m | 1.7 mi |
| Twin Knolls | S 174° | 597 m | 1.0 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | N 10° | 575 m | 8.6 mi |
| Pine Mountain | NNW 339° | 543 m | 3.0 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | ESE 123° | 527 m | 2.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:48 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:58 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 52 | 55 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 67 | 63 | 55 | 49 |
| Precip in | 8.8 | 8.7 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 4.6 | 9.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kentfield, 5 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Mar — fullest in Jan, leanest in Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 84.2 | 82.8 | 54.6 | 19.7 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 14.6 | 53.3 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Corte Madera C A Ross CA, 5 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Fairy-slipper768 obs
- California fetid adderstongue494 obs
- Mount Tamalpais manzanita356 obs
- Button's Banana Slug339 obs
- Andrews' Clintonia319 obs
- California Newt312 obs
- Pacific trillium308 obs
- Red larkspur305 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/9386464272
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