Lost Spring
Lost Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 655 m. Telescope Peak stands 3,369 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Sugarloaf Peak, a peak 2.1 miles away. 89 named places lie within 25 miles, 26 of them named summits.
How to reach it
89 named places within 25 miles
- Mesquite Spring: 2.1 mi
- Warm Spring: 4.0 mi
- Little Spring: 6.1 mi
- Grubstake Spring: 6.2 mi
- Fivemile Spring: 6.2 mi
- Sugarloaf Peak: 2.1 mi
- Needle Peak: 6.8 mi
- Gold Hill: 7.8 mi
- Striped Butte: 9.4 mi
- Cinder Hill: 10.0 mi
- Warm Spring Camp: 4.2 mi
- Mengel Cabin: 9.9 mi
- Russel Cabin: 10.0 mi
- Myers Ranch: 10.3 mi
- Barker Ranch: 10.6 mi
- Panamint City: 17.7 mi
- Ballarat: 19.9 mi
- Valley Wells: 24.3 mi
- Greenwater: 24.7 mi
- Baker Ranch: 15.1 mi
- Badwater Basin: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lost Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telescope Peak | NNW 331° | 3,369 m | 20.5 mi |
| Rogers Peak | NNW 335° | 3,045 m | 23.4 mi |
| Bennett Peak | NNW 334° | 3,027 m | 22.8 mi |
| Sentinel Peak | NW 324° | 2,936.4 m | 15.9 mi |
| Porter Peak | NW 320° | 2,774 m | 12.6 mi |
| Porter Peak | NW 320° | 2,756 m | 12.6 mi |
| Slims Peak | WNW 301° | 2,154 m | 14.4 mi |
| Manly Peak | W 271° | 2,133 m | 11.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 19:30 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:12 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 15:58 | 16:38 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Oct–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 53 | 59 | 66 | 75 | 84 | 91 | 90 | 83 | 70 | 57 | 47 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Trona, 29 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Death Valley National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Sep and Jun; busiest: Mar.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
- Red-tailed Hawk1 obs
- Common Chuckwalla1 obs
- Bighorn Sheep1 obs
- Brittlebush1 obs
- heartleaf suncup1 obs
- desert tobacco1 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/12714892479
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