Buck Spring
Buck Spring is a spring in Oregon, at a modelled elevation of 1,840 m. Drake Peak stands 2,563 m to the southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Round Mountain, a peak 0.8 miles away. Oregon Outback passes 8.5 miles off.
How to reach it
- 8.5 mi off the Oregon Outback, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Round Mountain: 0.8 mi
- Moss Pass Butte: 1.3 mi
- Myers Butte: 2.9 mi
- Morgan Butte: 4.3 mi
- Doe Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Cannon Spring: 1.3 mi
- Moss Spring: 1.7 mi
- Clem Spring: 3.3 mi
- Antelope Springs: 4.1 mi
- Fawn Spring: 10.6 mi
- Chandler State Wayside: 11.7 mi
- Abert Rim Viewpoint: 14.6 mi
- Abert Rim Historical Marker: 17.1 mi
- Cottonwood Reservoir County Park: 17.2 mi
- Mitchell Monument: 19.3 mi
- Coleman Rim: 13.5 mi
- Abert Rim: 14.4 mi
- Dead Horse Rim: 15.2 mi
- Abert Rim: 16.8 mi
- Abert Rim: 18.4 mi
- Mc Chuck Wagon Western Heritage Exhibit: 21.9 mi
- Lake County Museum: 22.3 mi
- Schminck Memorial Museum: 22.3 mi
- Japanese Balloon Bomb Memorial: 19.3 mi
- L: 21.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.0 miles of Buck Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drake Peak | SE 125° | 2,562.5 m | 23.0 mi |
| Gearhart Mountain | W 271° | 2,551 m | 19.7 mi |
| Light Peak | SE 127° | 2,537.5 m | 21.8 mi |
| 8295 | W 274° | 2,528 m | 18.9 mi |
| Peak 8272 | W 272° | 2,521 m | 19.5 mi |
| Twelvemile Peak | ESE 124° | 2,482.3 m | 20.5 mi |
| 8134 | WNW 284° | 2,476 m | 15.6 mi |
| Dead Horse Rim 8064 | WNW 285° | 2,458 m | 15.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:37 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 20:01 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:24 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 15:47 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 36 | 40 | 45 | 53 | 59 | 67 | 66 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 30 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Paisley, 14 mi away.
- Bitterroot1 obs
- Western Ponderosa Pine1 obs
- chokecherry1 obs
- prairie smoke1 obs
- woolly mule's ears1 obs
- Snowbrush Ceanothus1 obs
- wavyleaf paintbrush1 obs
- hairy paintbrush1 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 way/1191548493
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