Hidden Spring
Hidden Spring is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,637 m. Winter Alta stands 3,453 m to the east, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Crystal Cave, a attraction 2.1 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1637 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Yucca Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Burnt Point: 3.1 mi
- Little Baldy: 3.2 mi
- Colony Peak: 3.5 mi
- Chimney Rock: 3.6 mi
- Big Springs: 4.3 mi
- Slide Spring: 5.7 mi
- Wall Spring: 5.9 mi
- Granite Spring: 6.1 mi
- Big Fern Springs: 6.6 mi
- Crystal Cave: 2.1 mi
- Lower Stony Creek: 4.5 mi
- Sentinel Tree: 5.5 mi
- Booker T. Washington Tree: 6.0 mi
- Colonel Young Tree: 6.0 mi
- Marble Falls: 5.1 mi
- Panther Creek Falls: 8.9 mi
- Tokopah Falls: 9.2 mi
- Viola Falls: 11.0 mi
- Ella Falls: 11.1 mi
- Old Ranger Station: 4.4 mi
- Stephen Mather memorial plaque: 6.5 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 12.1 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 13.6 mi
- Alles Cabin: 14.1 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 6.4 mi
- Cobble Knoll Recreation Area: 13.5 mi
- Slick Rock Recreation Area: 13.9 mi
- Lake Kaweah Recreation Area: 15.1 mi
- Horse Creek Recreation Area: 15.6 mi
- Halstead Meadow Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
- Stony Creek Picnic Area: 4.8 mi
- Pinewood Picnic Area: 5.6 mi
- Hospital Rock Picnic Site: 7.5 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 11.4 mi
- Giant Forest Museum: 5.5 mi
- Three Rivers Historical Museum: 10.9 mi
- Homer Ranch Preserve: 13.0 mi
- Dry Creek Preserve: 15.2 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 13.0 mi
- Jumping Rock: 13.1 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 14.4 mi
- Valhalla: 15.3 mi
- Bravo Lake Botanical Garden: 18.4 mi
- Bookie Bear: 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.1 miles of Hidden Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Alta | E 92° | 3,453 m | 11.5 mi |
| Alta Peak | E 94° | 3,437 m | 11.0 mi |
| Mount Silliman | ENE 73° | 3,397 m | 9.5 mi |
| Tharps Rock | E 96° | 3,261 m | 10.7 mi |
| Twin Peaks | ENE 63° | 3,194 m | 9.3 mi |
| Mitchell Peak | NE 42° | 3,164 m | 12.0 mi |
| Kettle Peak | NE 55° | 3,058 m | 8.6 mi |
| Mount Maddox | NE 36° | 2,946 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:33 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:40 | 20:18 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:20 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:05 | 16:04 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 34 | 38 | 46 | 54 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 45 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 8.7 | 7.9 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 6.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lodgepole, 7 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Mar–Jul — fullest in May, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 149 | 162 | 269 | 463 | 744 | 636 | 268 | 57.9 | 22.2 | 32.3 | 43.0 | 62.7 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Kaweah R BL Conduit No. 2 NR Hammond CA, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Inside the official boundary of Sequoia National Park.
- Convergent Lady Beetle4 obs
- giant sequoia4 obs
- Solomon's plume3 obs
- Purple Fairy-lantern3 obs
- yellow and white monkeyflower3 obs
- Mule Deer2 obs
- bigleaf maple2 obs
- bush chinquapin2 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/928920585
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