Burning Moscow Spring
Burning Moscow Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,768 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the west, 7.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Harris Grade Spring, a spring 0.8 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Harris Grade Spring: 0.8 mi
- Tunnel Spring: 2.8 mi
- Lander's Meadow Spring: 3.2 mi
- Waterhole Mine Spring: 3.5 mi
- Measels Spring: 4.2 mi
- Sorrell Peak: 3.5 mi
- Mayan Peak: 3.5 mi
- Kelso Peak: 4.2 mi
- Pinyon Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Gold Peak: 6.0 mi
- Kern River Preserve: 14.8 mi
- Mountain Mesa Park: 14.8 mi
- South Fork Wildlife Area: 14.9 mi
- Scodie Park: 16.0 mi
- Uffert Park: 16.4 mi
- Josephine Stephens Bishop: 18.1 mi
- Cudahy camp: 18.9 mi
- Bickel Camp: 20.9 mi
- Martyr's Rock: 23.4 mi
- The Cross on the Loop: 23.8 mi
- Red cliffs trail: 17.1 mi
- Coso Mines: 19.1 mi
- Burro Schmidt Tunnel: 21.7 mi
- Burro Schmidt Tunnel: 21.8 mi
- Tehachapi Loop: 24.0 mi
- Red Rooster Picnic Site: 17.6 mi
- Tamarisk Grove: 18.0 mi
- Donley: 18.6 mi
- Berts Canyon Picnic Area: 20.8 mi
- Silver City Ghost Town: 16.2 mi
- Kern Valley Museum: 22.5 mi
- Red Cliffs Natural Preserve: 17.2 mi
- Red Rock Canyon State Park: 18.0 mi
- Miracle Hot Springs: 17.5 mi
- Last Chance Canyon Arch: 19.2 mi
- Freeman Junction: 22.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Burning Moscow Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute Peak | W 265° | 2,565 m | 7.6 mi |
| Brown Peak | W 280° | 2,466 m | 9.6 mi |
| Liebel Peak | WNW 292° | 2,452 m | 8.6 mi |
| Inspiration Point | WNW 302° | 2,387 m | 6.7 mi |
| Sorrell Peak | SSW 211° | 2,348 m | 3.5 mi |
| Breckenridge Mountain | W 268° | 2,298 m | 18.4 mi |
| Morris Peak | NE 44° | 2,199 m | 21.9 mi |
| Skinner Peak | NE 45° | 2,172 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:34 | 20:12 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:59 | 16:05 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 43 | 44 | 47 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 68 | 59 | 50 | 43 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Loraine 5 NNE, 10 mi away.
- Party-colored Monkeyflower17 obs
- California flannelbush12 obs
- California milkweed11 obs
- Frémont's Phacelia11 obs
- golden linanthus11 obs
- Western Joshua Tree10 obs
- singleleaf pinyon10 obs
- rockjasmine monkeyflower10 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/8558707148
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