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Champagne Spring

Champagne Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Champagne Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,741 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the north-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Cache Peak, a peak 0.4 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.22531, -118.24456

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks: 21
Attractions: 7
  • Historic Water Tower: 13.1 mi
  • Historic Tehachapi Depot: 13.2 mi
  • Tehachapi Loop: 16.7 mi
  • Red cliffs trail: 17.8 mi
  • Test Facility Race Car Paddock Area: 24.3 mi
Historic sites: 7
Nature reserves: 6
Museums: 5
Picnic sites: 3
  • Red Rooster Picnic Site: 17.0 mi
  • Donley: 17.3 mi
  • Tamarisk Grove: 17.4 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Last Chance Canyon Arch: 23.2 mi
Beaches: 1
  • 4 Island Lake Beach: 23.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.9 miles of Champagne Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Piute PeakNNW 332°2,565 m17.7 mi
Brown PeakNNW 331°2,466 m20.6 mi
Liebel PeakNNW 336°2,452 m21.3 mi
Double MountainSW 226°2,430 m19.1 mi
Tehachapi MountainSW 228°2,418 m18.3 mi
Covington MountainSW 222°2,392 m19.5 mi
Inspiration PointNNW 342°2,387 m20.8 mi
Cummings MountainSW 236°2,362 m22.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:3219:05
June solstice05:4019:3420:12
September equinox06:4218:1818:51
December solstice06:5916:0616:45

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F454853586777838275645244
Precip in1.11.50.80.20.10.00.20.20.10.40.30.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mojave, 13 mi away.

  • Butterfly Mariposa Lily5 obs
  • Gopher Snake3 obs
  • California milkweed3 obs
  • Beavertail Pricklypear3 obs
  • Piute Mountains Triteleia3 obs
  • Southern Alligator Lizard2 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard2 obs
  • bluehead gilia2 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/8583442639

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