Cold Spring
Cold Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,980 m. Kern Peak stands 3,499 m to the northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Trout Meadows Spring, a spring 2.5 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Hockett Peak: 2.9 mi
- Castle Rock: 2.9 mi
- Manzanita Knob: 5.8 mi
- Hermit Rock: 6.0 mi
- Angora Mountain: 6.0 mi
- Trout Meadows Spring: 2.5 mi
- Jug Spring: 3.8 mi
- Soda Spring: 5.0 mi
- Needle Spring: 7.1 mi
- River Spring: 8.7 mi
- Peppermint Creek Falls: 9.5 mi
- Volcano Falls: 11.7 mi
- Alder Creek Slides: 11.8 mi
- Seven Teacups: 13.8 mi
- Nobe Young Falls: 14.2 mi
- Cabin 242: 16.2 mi
- Cabin 240: 16.2 mi
- Cabin 236: 16.2 mi
- R-Ranch Adult Building: 16.2 mi
- Cabin 234: 16.2 mi
- The Needles Peak Fire Lookout: 6.7 mi
- Walkers Cabin: 10.4 mi
- Crabtree Cabin: 19.6 mi
- Empire Mill Ruins: 21.8 mi
- Old Big Arroyo Patrol Cabin: 24.3 mi
- Natural Bridge: 12.3 mi
- Natural Arch: 12.3 mi
- Window Cliffs: 14.6 mi
- Parker Bluffs: 16.5 mi
- Sunset Point Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
- Old Mountain Home Picnic Area: 16.5 mi
- McCarthy Blue Oak Ranch Preserve: 22.1 mi
- Cartago Wildlife Area: 23.7 mi
- Kern Hot Spring: 20.4 mi
- Springville Veterans Memorial Park: 23.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.8 miles of Cold Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kern Peak | NE 37° | 3,499 m | 10.9 mi |
| Coyote Peaks | NNW 346° | 3,276 m | 9.2 mi |
| Three Rocks | NNE 24° | 3,243 m | 9.9 mi |
| North Maggie Mountain | WNW 297° | 3,119 m | 14.4 mi |
| Angora Mountain | NNW 339° | 3,108.4 m | 6.0 mi |
| Overlook Mountain | N 10° | 3,108 m | 10.6 mi |
| Quinn Peak | NW 316° | 3,098.5 m | 14.6 mi |
| Sheep Mountain | NW 306° | 3,061 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:37 | 20:15 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:02 | 16:03 | 16:43 |
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 | 39 | 42 | 48 | 54 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 59 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Haiwee, 26 mi away.
- Golden Trout5 obs
- streambank bird's-foot trefoil3 obs
- American Black Bear2 obs
- heart-leaf milkweed2 obs
- marsh claytonia2 obs
- purple mountain-parsley2 obs
- California Mountain Kingsnake2 obs
- American Robin1 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/9641127231
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