Cold Spring
Cold Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 943 m. Buena Vista Peak stands 2,956 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Leaning Pine Hill, a peak 1.1 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 19 miles off.
How to reach it
- 19.3 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 21 mi
- View on Tenaya Lake · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Leaning Pine Hill: 1.1 mi
- Paloni Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Crow Peak: 2.6 mi
- Pilot Peak: 3.3 mi
- Miami Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Red Rock Falls: 6.4 mi
- Corlieu Falls: 7.5 mi
- Lower Chilnualna Falls: 8.2 mi
- Chilnualna Fall: 9.3 mi
- Alder Creek Falls: 9.4 mi
- Big Spring: 9.8 mi
- Barrel Spring: 12.1 mi
- Specimen Springs: 13.3 mi
- Apple Tree Spring: 16.1 mi
- Fern Spring: 17.3 mi
- Ahwahnee Hills Regional Park: 6.4 mi
- Wassama Roundhouse State Historic Park: 6.9 mi
- Midpines Park: 10.3 mi
- Oakhurst Community Park: 10.9 mi
- Mariposa Art Park: 12.2 mi
- Thornberry Museum: 5.6 mi
- Yosemite History Center: 6.6 mi
- Mariposa Grove Museum: 8.4 mi
- California State Mining and Mineral Museum: 11.3 mi
- Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park: 11.3 mi
- Gold Rush BBQ: 5.8 mi
- The Falls Picnic Site: 13.6 mi
- Red Bud Picnic Area: 14.3 mi
- Indian Flat Day Use: 14.3 mi
- Summit Meadow: 14.8 mi
- Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Historical Railroad: 5.6 mi
- Mariposa Welcome Plaza: 6.6 mi
- Grizzly Giant: 8.1 mi
- Big Ed: 9.1 mi
- Bull Buck Tree: 9.4 mi
- Rockslides: 18.0 mi
- Fireplace Bluffs: 18.1 mi
- The Fissures: 18.3 mi
- Profile Cliff: 18.3 mi
- Panorama Cliff: 19.9 mi
- Mt Buckingham School (historic): 5.9 mi
- September 11, 2001 Memorial: 12.2 mi
- Foster Curry Cabin: 20.5 mi
- Women's Club Building: 20.6 mi
- John Muir: 20.7 mi
- Agua Fria: 15.3 mi
- Mount Ophir: 17.9 mi
- Cat Town: 22.4 mi
- Nelder Grove Historical Area: 9.0 mi
- Whisky Snowmobile Area: 22.7 mi
- Oakhurst Mural: 11.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.6 miles of Cold Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Vista Peak | NE 56° | 2,956 m | 14.9 mi |
| Iron Mountain | E 87° | 2,794 m | 13.9 mi |
| Mount Raymond | ENE 77° | 2,650 m | 11.0 mi |
| White Chief Mountain | E 84° | 2,637 m | 11.5 mi |
| Tempo Dome | NNE 22° | 2,393.1 m | 13.3 mi |
| Fresno Dome | E 96° | 2,298 m | 11.4 mi |
| Speckerman Mountain | E 98° | 2,181 m | 9.0 mi |
| Greys Mountain | ESE 111° | 2,158 m | 12.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:37 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:45 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:23 | 18:57 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 16:04 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 36 | 39 | 43 | 50 | 59 | 65 | 65 | 60 | 51 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 7.6 | 6.7 | 5.2 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 5.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SO Entrance Yosemite NP, 7 mi away.
- Wild Turkey5 obs
- Gregarious Slender Salamander5 obs
- California Quail4 obs
- Turkey Vulture4 obs
- Pacific poison oak4 obs
- canyon live oak4 obs
- California incense-cedar4 obs
- Whiteleaf Manzanita4 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/11262787736
Day trips start here
- Sierra Nevada · 20 mi
- Yosemite National Park · 21 mi
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