Cold Spring
Cold Spring is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,149 m. Butt Mountain stands 2,395 m to the northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Cold Spring Hill, a peak 0.8 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1149 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Cold Spring Hill: 0.8 mi
- Pinnacle Peak: 2.1 mi
- Ike Dye Hill: 4.0 mi
- Iron Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Promontory Point: 5.5 mi
- Bennett Spring: 3.2 mi
- Sulphur Lick: 5.3 mi
- Obe Fields Spring: 6.1 mi
- Bell Spring: 7.2 mi
- Cave Spring: 7.9 mi
- Moore Road Ball Park: 18.8 mi
- Bille Park: 19.4 mi
- Upper Bidwell Park: 20.1 mi
- Terry Ashe Park: 20.3 mi
- Hancock Park: 20.7 mi
- Chico Air Museum: 19.7 mi
- Depot Museum: 20.8 mi
- Museum of Northern California Art: 23.5 mi
- Gateway Science Museum: 23.7 mi
- Tehama County Museum: 23.8 mi
- Downtown Kaleidoscope: 23.8 mi
- Monoliths: 23.9 mi
- Chico State Flame: 23.9 mi
- Ring Roll: 24.0 mi
- Three Sisters: 24.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 21.2 mi
- IN HONOR OF ALL CHICO AREA VETERANS: 21.7 mi
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF Kristina Chesterman 1992-2013: 23.5 mi
- Bidwell Mansion: 23.8 mi
- Chico Community Labyrinth: 23.8 mi
- Mill Creek Rim: 11.0 mi
- Steamboat Point: 11.3 mi
- East China Point: 14.3 mi
- Elephant Butte: 20.5 mi
- Cape Horn: 24.3 mi
- Philbrook Picnic Area: 11.4 mi
- Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 14.7 mi
- Elam Picnic Area: 18.1 mi
- Five Mile: 20.9 mi
- Rose Garden: 23.8 mi
- Mary Lemcke Camellia Garden: 23.9 mi
- George Petersen Rose Garden: 24.0 mi
- Chico Seed Orchard: 24.5 mi
- Lower Deer Creek Falls: 9.5 mi
- Deer Creek Falls: 13.5 mi
- Deadhorse Falls: 16.8 mi
- Deer Creek Preserve: 9.3 mi
- Gray Davis Dye Creek Preserve: 17.8 mi
- Soto: 21.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.4 miles of Cold Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butt Mountain | NE 53° | 2,395 m | 19.1 mi |
| Locke Peak | ENE 70° | 2,182 m | 15.2 mi |
| Eagle Rocks | ENE 61° | 2,149 m | 16.0 mi |
| Humboldt Peak | ENE 62° | 2,147 m | 14.6 mi |
| Snow Mountain | E 86° | 2,127 m | 13.4 mi |
| Humboldt Summit | ENE 59° | 2,085 m | 13.7 mi |
| Turner Mountain | N 10° | 2,083 m | 17.4 mi |
| Spring Valley Mountain | E 98° | 2,081 m | 15.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:59 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:30 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 16:02 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 45 | 49 | 53 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 74 | 69 | 60 | 49 | 43 |
| Precip in | 11.9 | 11.8 | 9.6 | 5.2 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.4 | 6.4 | 13.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — DE Sabla, 13 mi away.
- White-lined Sphinx2 obs
- Whiskerbrush2 obs
- yellow and white monkeyflower2 obs
- American Dipper1 obs
- Foothill Yellow-legged Frog1 obs
- Mule Deer1 obs
- salal1 obs
- Pacific poison oak1 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/2295323659
Day trips start here
- Chico · 22 mi
- Corning · 28 mi
- Tehama County · 30 mi
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