Lousy Spring
Lousy Spring is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 1,390 m. Castle Peak stands 3,249 m to the east-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Wiesman Spring, a spring 1.7 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1390 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugarpine Hill: 5.2 mi
- Patterson Mountain: 5.4 mi
- Converse Mountain: 7.6 mi
- Spanish Mountain: 8.5 mi
- Oat Mountain: 8.6 mi
- Wiesman Spring: 1.7 mi
- Sycamore Springs: 6.2 mi
- Clover Meadow Spring: 6.8 mi
- Delilah Spring: 7.2 mi
- Blue Clay Spring: 8.7 mi
- Teakettle Experiment Area: 4.7 mi
- Courtright Intrusive Contact Zone Geological Area: 13.2 mi
- Trimmer Recreation Area: 13.6 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 16.4 mi
- Winton Park: 19.6 mi
- Helms Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
- Mc Kinley Botanical Area: 9.4 mi
- Short Hair Creek Picnic Area: 9.7 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 11.4 mi
- Dinkey Fisherman Picnic Site: 13.2 mi
- Rancheria Creek Falls: 4.2 mi
- Garlic Falls: 5.7 mi
- Ella Falls: 11.9 mi
- Viola Falls: 12.0 mi
- Silver Spray Falls: 14.3 mi
- Zephyr Headquarters: 5.6 mi
- Whitewater Voyages Headquarters: 5.6 mi
- Chicago Stump: 8.0 mi
- Gamlin Cabin: 11.0 mi
- Centennial Stump: 11.0 mi
- Patterson Bluffs: 2.8 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 13.9 mi
- Grand Bluff: 15.6 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 20.5 mi
- Big Sandy Bluff: 24.1 mi
- Blue Canyon Cabin: 17.3 mi
- Qualls Camp: 19.9 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 22.5 mi
- Shorty's Crowley Canyon Cabin: 24.2 mi
- Shorty's Granite Pass Cabin: 24.2 mi
- Jumping Rock: 10.6 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 10.9 mi
- Bookie Bear: 15.8 mi
- Museum of the Sierra: 21.5 mi
- Oakhurst: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.7 miles of Lousy Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Peak | ENE 58° | 3,249 m | 11.8 mi |
| Scepter | NE 48° | 3,238 m | 14.9 mi |
| Eagle Peak | N 7° | 3,125 m | 13.4 mi |
| Nelson Mountain | N 359° | 3,120 m | 13.3 mi |
| Spanish Mountain | E 84° | 3,064 m | 8.5 mi |
| Loper Peak | NE 38° | 3,062 m | 12.5 mi |
| Obelisk | E 86° | 2,958 m | 10.6 mi |
| Finger Rock | NE 49° | 2,928 m | 9.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:41 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 16:03 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 65 | 73 | 81 | 81 | 76 | 66 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 5.6 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Balch PWR House, 3 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Jul — fullest in Jun, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 34.5 | 51.1 | 72.4 | 127 | 309 | 473 | 149 | 8.8 | 8.1 | 9.4 | 10.8 | 13.7 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge NF Kings R BL Balch Div Dam CA, under a mile away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Gopher Snake2 obs
- California yerba santa2 obs
- Pacific chorus frog1 obs
- Mediterranean House Gecko1 obs
- Mountain Lion1 obs
- California bay1 obs
- California black oak1 obs
- California Tortoiseshell1 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/909077484
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