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Los Pinos Spring

Los Pinos Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Los Pinos Spring is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,008 m. Santiago Peak stands 1,734 m to the northwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Los Pinos Peak, a peak 1.2 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
1008 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates33.65904, -117.45235
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • McVicker Park: 3.7 mi
  • Oak Tree Park: 3.9 mi
  • Summer Lake Park: 4.1 mi
  • Lincoln Street Park: 4.2 mi
  • Machado Park: 4.7 mi
Historic sites
Attractions
  • Firebase Airsoft Field: 5.4 mi
  • Babylon Paintball Field: 5.5 mi
  • Concrete Pipes Paintball Field: 5.5 mi
  • Somalia Paintball Field: 5.5 mi
  • Hyperball Paintball Field: 5.5 mi
Gardens
  • Butterfly Garden: 10.1 mi
  • Botanical Wedding Garden: 14.7 mi
  • Garden Center 1: 16.3 mi
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe Prayer Garden: 16.6 mi
  • Prayer Garden: 16.7 mi
Artworks
  • Peace Obelisk: 12.0 mi
  • Bird Houses: 15.2 mi
  • R: 15.9 mi
  • A: 16.0 mi
  • M: 16.0 mi
Museums: 42
Springs: 36
Nature reserves: 35
Beaches: 16
  • Poche Beach: 18.7 mi
  • South Day Use Beach: 18.9 mi
  • North Beach: 18.9 mi
  • Group Campsite: 18.9 mi
  • El Portal: 19.0 mi
Picnic sites: 15
  • Group Picnic #1: 8.7 mi
  • Vista Point: 8.9 mi
  • Goat Shed Point: 9.9 mi
  • Old Corral Picnic Area: 9.9 mi
  • Covered Picnic Area: 17.1 mi
Waterfalls: 9
Cliffs: 8
  • Coyote Bluff: 17.4 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 20.4 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 20.5 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 20.7 mi
  • Norco Bluffs: 20.8 mi
Ghost towns: 5
Rest areas: 2
Natural arches: 1
  • Three Arches: 20.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.1 miles of Los Pinos Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Santiago PeakNW 307°1,734 m5.9 mi
Modjeska PeakNW 308°1,675 m6.7 mi
ClarkSSE 159°1,527 m18.2 mi
Trabuco PeakNNW 336°1,401 m3.3 mi
Los Pinos PeakWNW 290°1,373 m1.2 mi
Horsethief PeakN 350°1,315 m2.0 mi
Pleasants PeakNW 317°1,211 m13.0 mi
Bald PeakNW 324°1,197 m8.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2919:02
June solstice05:4119:2720:04
September equinox06:3918:1518:48
December solstice06:5116:0816:46

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F545559636874808177696053
Precip in3.02.81.50.50.20.10.20.10.20.50.62.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elsinore, 6 mi away.

Streamflow

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–Apr — fullest in Mar, leanest in Jul.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs4.514.216.98.10.80.10.00.00.00.00.00.0

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Temescal C A Corona LK NR Corona CA, 6 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Wildlife nearby
  • Felt Paintbrush97 obs
  • chaparral yucca96 obs
  • Eastwood's Manzanita76 obs
  • Coahuila frasera75 obs
  • Splendid Mariposa Lily66 obs
  • Bush Poppy65 obs
  • white sage65 obs
  • coast live oak64 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/3938814328

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