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Goat Spring

Goat Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Goat Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 3,100 m. White Mountain Peak stands 4,344 m to the north-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Silver Peak, a peak 0.8 miles away. 127 named places lie within 25 miles, 42 of them named summits.

How to reach it

Coordinates37.42195, -118.18327

127 named places within 25 miles

Springs: 51
Peaks: 42
Parks: 10
Historic sites: 8
  • Cabin: 2.9 mi
  • Cabin: 2.9 mi
  • Cabin: 3.0 mi
  • Champion Spark Plug Mine High Camp: 15.6 mi
  • Zurich: 17.1 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Museums: 3
Ghost towns: 3
Attractions: 2
  • Methuselah: 3.1 mi
  • Saline Valley Road OHV Trailhead: 20.9 mi
Cliffs: 2
Waterfalls: 2
  • Second Falls: 24.9 mi
  • First Falls: 25.0 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Bishop Community Garden: 12.0 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Goat Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
White Mountain PeakNNW 345°4,344 m15.2 mi
Mount BarcroftNNW 342°3,979 m11.6 mi
Mount HogueNNW 343°3,884 m22.4 mi
Headley PeakNNW 343°3,858 m19.2 mi
Piute MountainNNW 341°3,827 m8.4 mi
Sheep MountainNNW 345°3,810 m7.5 mi
Campito MountainN 349°3,522 m5.4 mi
Indian PeakNNW 339°3,443 m19.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:3019:05
June solstice05:3319:3920:18
September equinox06:4118:1718:51
December solstice07:0415:5816:39

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404349556473787669584638
Precip in1.10.90.50.20.20.10.20.10.10.40.30.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bishop AP, 10 mi away.

  • Great Basin bristlecone pine149 obs
  • King’s Sandwort57 obs
  • Nuttall's Linanthus57 obs
  • raspberry buckwheat54 obs
  • Clokey's Fleabane40 obs
  • fernbush39 obs
  • sulfur buckwheat35 obs
  • silvery lupine34 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/7943396534

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