Hot Spring
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Hot Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 229 m. Santiago Peak stands 1,734 m to the north, 8.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Crow Spring, a spring 2.2 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugarloaf: 3.2 mi
- New Sugarloaf: 3.3 mi
- Sitton Peak: 4.1 mi
- Los Pinos Peak: 5.9 mi
- Sail Rock: 6.4 mi
- Cypress Point Park: 3.6 mi
- Dove Canyon Community Park: 4.5 mi
- Dove Canyon Park: 4.6 mi
- Trabuco Highlands Central Park: 5.3 mi
- Ike Arnold: 5.4 mi
- Trabuco and Holy Jim cabin Owners' Improvement Association: 6.0 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 8.8 mi
- Aguaje del Cuate: 9.0 mi
- Costeau Pit Monument: 10.0 mi
- The Great Stone Church: 10.3 mi
- Trabuco Fliers Club: 6.0 mi
- Mission San Juan Capistrano: 10.3 mi
- Firebase Airsoft Field: 11.5 mi
- Babylon Paintball Field: 11.5 mi
- Concrete Pipes Paintball Field: 11.6 mi
- Peace Obelisk: 7.7 mi
- Bird Houses: 9.2 mi
- Made In OC: 10.3 mi
- The Pacific Promise: 12.2 mi
- Marie Curie: 12.7 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 4.5 mi
- Niguel Botanical Preserve: 11.8 mi
- Garden Center 1: 12.4 mi
- Botanical Wedding Garden: 18.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 18.9 mi
- Crow Spring: 2.2 mi
- Carrillo Spring: 2.9 mi
- Fox Spring: 3.1 mi
- Los Chinos Spring: 3.6 mi
- Quail Spring: 3.8 mi
- Blas Aguilar Adobe: 10.3 mi
- Surfing Heritage and Culture Center: 10.6 mi
- Pretend City Children's Museum: 13.3 mi
- Ocean Institute: 14.0 mi
- Laguna Art Museum: 15.9 mi
- Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park: 10.1 mi
- Sylvan Meadows Multi-Use Area: 14.0 mi
- Trestles Wetlands Natural Preserve: 14.5 mi
- San Onofre State Beach: 14.7 mi
- Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve: 16.1 mi
- Poche Beach: 12.6 mi
- South Day Use Beach: 12.8 mi
- North Beach: 12.8 mi
- Group Campsite: 12.8 mi
- El Portal: 12.9 mi
- Old Corral Picnic Area: 3.8 mi
- Group Picnic #1: 6.5 mi
- Vista Point: 7.3 mi
- Goat Shed Point: 10.0 mi
- Calit2 Patio: 19.0 mi
- Lion Canyon Falls: 4.2 mi
- Ortega Falls: 5.8 mi
- Tenaja Falls: 7.3 mi
- Holly Jim Falls: 7.3 mi
- Harding Canyon Falls: 10.2 mi
- Willard: 9.4 mi
- Terra Cotta: 11.4 mi
- Rancho Temescal: 12.5 mi
- Pinacate: 20.2 mi
- Leon: 23.5 mi
- Coyote Bluff: 11.3 mi
- San Onofre Bluff: 15.8 mi
- Norco Bluffs: 24.1 mi
- Norco Bluffs: 24.4 mi
- Norco Bluffs: 24.7 mi
- Rayzilla Rest Area: 11.2 mi
- Rayzilla Viewpoint: 11.2 mi
- Aliso Creek Rest Area (Southbound): 22.3 mi
- Aliso Creek Rest Area (Northbound): 22.6 mi
- Three Arches: 14.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.6 miles of Hot Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago Peak | N 354° | 1,734 m | 8.4 mi |
| Modjeska Peak | N 350° | 1,675 m | 9.1 mi |
| Clark | SE 139° | 1,527 m | 16.0 mi |
| Trabuco Peak | NNE 17° | 1,401 m | 8.2 mi |
| Los Pinos Peak | NNE 27° | 1,373 m | 5.9 mi |
| Horsethief Peak | NNE 27° | 1,315 m | 7.6 mi |
| Pleasants Peak | NNW 340° | 1,211 m | 15.2 mi |
| Bald Peak | N 355° | 1,197 m | 11.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:29 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:27 | 20:04 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:15 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 06:51 | 16:08 | 16:47 |
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, 12 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 | 50.1 | 67.3 | 48.3 | 17.5 | 7.7 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 14.7 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge San Juan C AT LA Novia ST BR AT San Juan Capis CA, 10 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Parry's Jepsonia38 obs
- San Diego Monkeyflower38 obs
- Pacific pea36 obs
- fire poppy33 obs
- lanceleaf liveforever32 obs
- hoaryleaf ceanothus32 obs
- deerweed30 obs
- chaparral yucca30 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/3938814324
Day trips start here
- Mission Viejo · 9 mi
- Laguna Hills · 10 mi
- San Juan Capistrano · 10 mi
- Beach Cities · 11 mi
- Lake Forest · 11 mi
- Aliso Viejo · 12 mi
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