Grouse Spring
Grouse Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 2,928 m. North Palisade stands 4,343 m to the southwest, 4.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Second Falls, a waterfall 0.6 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Alice: 1.6 mi
- Kid Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Sugarloaf: 3.0 mi
- Sky Haven: 3.1 mi
- Temple Crag: 3.2 mi
- Big Pine Spring: 4.7 mi
- Fish Springs: 10.9 mi
- Wilkerson Springs: 11.8 mi
- Uhlmeyer Spring: 12.0 mi
- Wam Springs: 13.0 mi
- Second Falls: 0.6 mi
- First Falls: 1.2 mi
- Triple Falls: 12.3 mi
- Upper Evolution Creek Falls: 19.1 mi
- Lower Evolution Creek Falls: 19.3 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 8.9 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 9.1 mi
- Starlite Playground and Park: 13.6 mi
- Izaak Walton Park: 15.2 mi
- Bulpitt Park: 15.2 mi
- Windy Cliff: 11.4 mi
- Great Cliffs: 12.0 mi
- Muro Blanco: 16.5 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 18.7 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 19.1 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
- Piñyon Picnic Area Nature Trail: 19.0 mi
- Schulman Grove Picnic Area: 22.5 mi
- Rock Monster: 9.5 mi
- John Muir Rock: 21.3 mi
- Saline Valley Road OHV Trailhead: 21.8 mi
- Methuselah: 22.6 mi
- Paiute-Shoshone Indian Cultural Center: 15.3 mi
- American Mule Museum: 15.9 mi
- Laws Railroad Museum: 18.6 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 17.8 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 24.3 mi
- Bishop Community Garden: 15.8 mi
- Kearsarge: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.6 miles of Grouse Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Palisade | SW 228° | 4,343 m | 4.9 mi |
| Starlight Peak | SW 229° | 4,323.7 m | 4.8 mi |
| Mount Sill | SW 223° | 4,316 m | 4.3 mi |
| Polemonium Peak | SW 226° | 4,298.2 m | 4.8 mi |
| Middle Palisade | SSW 193° | 4,278.2 m | 5.0 mi |
| Split Mountain | S 170° | 4,269 m | 8.5 mi |
| Thunderbolt Peak | SW 231° | 4,268 m | 4.8 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | S 191° | 4,258.6 m | 5.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:39 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:00 | 16:41 |
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 | 40 | 43 | 49 | 55 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bishop AP, 17 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: May–Sep — fullest in Aug, leanest in Jan.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 19.4 | 20.9 | 22.3 | 24.8 | 27.3 | 27.7 | 36.4 | 36.8 | 26.8 | 22.1 | 20.3 | 20.8 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge SF Bishop C BL S LK NR Bishop CA, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- sulfur buckwheat62 obs
- water birch50 obs
- Curlleaf Mountain Mahogany49 obs
- Kelley's Lily47 obs
- Columbian Monkshood41 obs
- poison angelica41 obs
- Bruneau Mariposa Lily39 obs
- bog wintergreen39 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/4267434071
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