Cold Spring
Cold Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 2,430 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the south-southeast, 1.1 miles off.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Piute Peak: 1.1 mi
- Brown Peak: 2.0 mi
- Liebel Peak: 2.8 mi
- Inspiration Point: 3.8 mi
- Sunset Point: 4.3 mi
- Piute Spring: 1.4 mi
- Thompson Spring: 3.4 mi
- Saddle Spring: 3.7 mi
- Bracchi Spring: 3.7 mi
- Steve Spring: 4.6 mi
- Uffert Park: 11.0 mi
- Lake Isabella Park: 11.4 mi
- Mountain Mesa Park: 11.7 mi
- South Fork Wildlife Area: 14.4 mi
- Kern River Preserve: 14.7 mi
- Silver City Ghost Town: 10.5 mi
- Kern Valley Museum: 20.0 mi
- Tehachapi Depot Museum: 23.3 mi
- Tehachapi Museum: 23.5 mi
- Errea House Museum: 23.5 mi
- Coso Mines: 14.8 mi
- Tehachapi Loop: 20.1 mi
- Historic Tehachapi Depot: 23.3 mi
- Historic Water Tower: 23.3 mi
- Red cliffs trail: 24.7 mi
- Upper Richbar Picnic Area: 18.3 mi
- Lower Richbar Picnic Area: 18.6 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 18.9 mi
- Martyr's Rock: 18.8 mi
- The Cross on the Loop: 19.9 mi
- Tehachapi Loop Overlook: 20.3 mi
- Miracle Hot Springs: 10.8 mi
- Red Cliffs Natural Preserve: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.9 miles of Cold Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute Peak | SSE 165° | 2,565 m | 1.1 mi |
| Brown Peak | NW 308° | 2,466 m | 2.0 mi |
| Liebel Peak | N 358° | 2,452 m | 2.8 mi |
| Inspiration Point | NE 35° | 2,387 m | 3.8 mi |
| Sorrell Peak | ESE 119° | 2,348 m | 7.0 mi |
| Breckenridge Mountain | W 264° | 2,298 m | 10.6 mi |
| Skinner Peak | ENE 65° | 2,172 m | 16.7 mi |
| Shirley Peak | NNW 331° | 2,164 m | 18.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:35 | 20:13 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:00 | 16:06 | 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, 6 mi away.
- Party-colored Monkeyflower10 obs
- pinewoods lousewort7 obs
- Shy Mariposa Lily7 obs
- Nuttall's Linanthus7 obs
- Transverse Range Phacelia7 obs
- Western Wallflower6 obs
- Bridges' penstemon6 obs
- Big deervetch6 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/9461123576
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