Cold Spring
Cold Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 633 m. Santiago Peak stands 1,734 m to the north-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Miller Mountain, a peak 1.6 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Miller Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Margarita Peak: 4.1 mi
- Tenaja Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Redonda Mesa: 4.2 mi
- Rocky Peak: 4.8 mi
- Wildomar OHV Area: 7.7 mi
- Rancho Mission Viejo Ecological Reserve: 8.7 mi
- Talega Park: 9.7 mi
- Boulder Pond & Playground: 9.7 mi
- La Cristianita Historic Site: 9.7 mi
- Rancho Santa Rosa Historic Area: 8.6 mi
- Brown Water Tower: 11.0 mi
- Skydive Elsinore: 11.5 mi
- Murrieta Historic Downtown: 12.4 mi
- Historic Downtown Lake Elsinore: 12.9 mi
- Wildomar Elementary School Historic Bell: 11.1 mi
- Laurel Flag Pole Memorial: 11.7 mi
- Smugglers Sink: 11.8 mi
- 9/11 Rock Garden: 12.7 mi
- Honor Garden: 12.7 mi
- Willow Spring: 2.7 mi
- Mud Springs: 3.1 mi
- Dobe Spring: 3.4 mi
- Case Spring: 3.4 mi
- White Oak Springs: 3.5 mi
- Surfing Heritage and Culture Center: 10.6 mi
- Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society: 12.5 mi
- Blas Aguilar Adobe: 14.0 mi
- Temecula Valley Museum: 15.4 mi
- Pennypickle's Workshop Museum: 15.5 mi
- Fallbrook Totem Bird Sculpture: 12.6 mi
- Bird Houses: 12.9 mi
- R: 13.4 mi
- A: 13.4 mi
- M: 13.4 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 11.2 mi
- Grand Tradition: 13.5 mi
- Prayer Garden: 15.0 mi
- Student Gardens: 15.5 mi
- School Garden: 16.1 mi
- Church: 12.2 mi
- Playa Las Palmeras: 12.6 mi
- Playa Las Palmeras: 12.7 mi
- T Street Beach: 12.8 mi
- The Pier Beach: 12.8 mi
- Sylvan Meadows Multi-Use Area: 8.0 mi
- Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve: 10.1 mi
- Trestles Wetlands Natural Preserve: 12.5 mi
- San Onofre State Beach: 12.5 mi
- Los Jilgueros Preserve: 14.0 mi
- Tenaja Falls: 4.2 mi
- Lion Canyon Falls: 8.7 mi
- Ortega Falls: 8.8 mi
- Gavilan Mountain Waterfall: 13.2 mi
- Holly Jim Falls: 14.7 mi
- Old Corral Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
- Group Picnic #1: 14.9 mi
- Employee Break Area: 15.3 mi
- Vista Point: 15.8 mi
- Juror Patio Tables: 18.1 mi
- Willard: 11.5 mi
- Terra Cotta: 14.4 mi
- Rancho Temescal: 19.2 mi
- Leon: 20.1 mi
- Pinacate: 21.0 mi
- Rayzilla Rest Area: 10.8 mi
- Rayzilla Viewpoint: 10.9 mi
- Aliso Creek Rest Area (Southbound): 15.6 mi
- Aliso Creek Rest Area (Northbound): 15.9 mi
- San Onofre Bluff: 11.8 mi
- Coyote Bluff: 13.2 mi
- Three Arches: 18.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.6 miles of Cold Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago Peak | NNW 336° | 1,734 m | 16.1 mi |
| Modjeska Peak | NNW 335° | 1,675 m | 16.9 mi |
| Clark | SE 141° | 1,527 m | 7.5 mi |
| Trabuco Peak | NNW 347° | 1,401 m | 14.5 mi |
| Los Pinos Peak | NNW 345° | 1,373 m | 11.9 mi |
| Horsethief Peak | N 350° | 1,315 m | 13.2 mi |
| Bald Peak | NNW 339° | 1,197 m | 19.0 mi |
| Bedford Peak | NNW 334° | 1,161 m | 20.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:27 | 20:03 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:15 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 06:51 | 16:08 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 54 | 55 | 59 | 63 | 68 | 74 | 80 | 81 | 77 | 69 | 60 | 53 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.8 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elsinore, 14 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–Mar — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 33.2 | 36.2 | 22.1 | 8.9 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 6.0 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge DE Luz C NR DE Luz CA, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Weed's Mariposa Lily11 obs
- Two-striped Garter Snake5 obs
- Western Fence Lizard5 obs
- many-stemmed dudleya4 obs
- Blainville's Horned Lizard4 obs
- Western Spadefoot3 obs
- Dwarf Brodiaea3 obs
- Banded Garden Spider3 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/3938814318
Day trips start here
- San Clemente · 12 mi
- Lake Elsinore · 13 mi
- Fallbrook · 14 mi
- San Juan Capistrano · 14 mi
- Dana Point · 16 mi
- Mission Viejo · 16 mi
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