Medicine Spring
Medicine Spring is a spring in Washington, at a recorded elevation of 1,550 m. Big Lou Mountain stands 2,372 m to the west-southwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Sugarloaf Peak, a peak 0.9 miles away. Cascade Loop passes 9.9 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1550 m
How to reach it
- 9.9 mi off the Cascade Loop, National
- 9.9 mi off the JCT WOODS CREEK RD NEAR MONROE TO JCT US 97 NEAR PESHASTIN
- 9.9 mi off the Stevens Pass Greenway, National
- 13.2 mi off the JCT SR 10 VIC ELLENSBURG TO JCT SR 2 VIC PESHASTIN
Overlooks nearby
- Peshastin Lookout · 13 mi
- Echo Point · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugarloaf Peak: 0.9 mi
- Gold Ridge: 1.8 mi
- Mosquito Point: 3.5 mi
- Chumstick Mountain: 7.4 mi
- Maverick Peak: 8.0 mi
- Front Street Park: 12.2 mi
- Lions Club Park: 12.3 mi
- Entiat State Wildlife Area: 14.3 mi
- Columbia Breaks Fire Interpretive Center: 15.0 mi
- Theodore "Buzz" Butts Park: 15.2 mi
- Mud Spring: 1.3 mi
- Tyee Ridge Spring No. 3: 5.7 mi
- Tyee Ridge Spring No. 2: 5.9 mi
- Tyee Ridge Spring No. 1: 6.0 mi
- Buck Spring: 7.3 mi
- Die Bergfreunde Fountain: 12.0 mi
- The Storyteller: 12.2 mi
- Emissaries: 15.2 mi
- Fountain of Dreams: 15.2 mi
- Granite Salmon: 15.2 mi
- Leavenworth Ziplines: 6.2 mi
- Orion River Rafting: 7.4 mi
- Willkommen in Leavenworth: 12.2 mi
- Maibaum: 12.2 mi
- Kestrel Vintners: 12.4 mi
- Upper Castle Rock: 13.3 mi
- Lower Castle Rock: 13.3 mi
- Ribbon Cliff: 14.1 mi
- Earthquake Point: 14.5 mi
- Number Rock: 15.0 mi
- Nutcracker Museum & Store: 12.2 mi
- Greater Leavenworth Museum: 12.2 mi
- Columbia Breaks Fire Interpretive Center: 15.0 mi
- Entiat Museum: 15.4 mi
- Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village: 15.8 mi
- Rex (Rogers) Stamp Mill: 11.8 mi
- Der Ritter: 12.5 mi
- Dirtyface Lookout: 14.9 mi
- 1945 Lake Chelan School Bus Accident Memorial: 18.3 mi
- Lucas Homestead: 19.8 mi
- Sand Bar: 12.1 mi
- Marble Rock Beach: 12.3 mi
- Hot Sand Beach: 12.5 mi
- Enchantment Beach: 12.6 mi
- Rafters Beach: 12.7 mi
- Preston Falls: 10.4 mi
- McCrea Falls: 11.2 mi
- Drury Falls: 12.7 mi
- Silver Falls: 14.9 mi
- Bridal Falls: 16.8 mi
- garden = pumpkin patch: 10.2 mi
- leisure = garden: 10.2 mi
- E. Lorene Young Community Garden: 11.9 mi
- Royal Bavarian Kanzlers Rose Garden: 12.2 mi
- Ohme Gardens: 20.6 mi
- Entiat National Fish Hatchery: 9.9 mi
- Peshastin Pinnacles State Park: 14.1 mi
- Mountain Home Ridge (CDLT): 14.8 mi
- Chelan Coulees Preserve: 17.4 mi
- Porter's Pond Nature Area: 23.8 mi
- Swiftwater Picnic Area: 11.4 mi
- Spruce Grove Day Use Area: 18.3 mi
- Day Use Area: 18.7 mi
- Pioneer Park Picnic Site: 22.1 mi
- Nason Creek Rest Area: 12.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.2 miles of Medicine Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lou Mountain | WSW 244° | 2,372 m | 16.7 mi |
| Big Slide Mountain | WSW 243° | 2,367 m | 16.5 mi |
| Big Jim Mountain | WSW 248° | 2,366 m | 15.4 mi |
| Opportunity Mountain | WSW 258° | 2,287 m | 18.0 mi |
| Frigid Mountain | WSW 246° | 2,248.5 m | 17.9 mi |
| Jay Peak | WSW 241° | 2,240 m | 16.2 mi |
| Stormy Mountain | NE 37° | 2,194 m | 13.3 mi |
| North Chiwaukum | W 270° | 2,174 m | 18.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:34 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 20:16 | 21:05 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:49 | 15:20 | 16:13 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 31 | 37 | 45 | 53 | 59 | 66 | 66 | 58 | 46 | 35 | 27 |
| Precip in | 4.6 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 4.6 | 5.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Plain, 6 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 | 1,130 | 1,129 | 1,275 | 2,680 | 5,787 | 6,124 | 3,243 | 1,122 | 635 | 865 | 1,489 | 1,370 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Wenatchee River AT Plain, WA, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- red baneberry4 obs
- Lyall's Mariposa Lily4 obs
- Douglas-fir2 obs
- subalpine fir2 obs
- ballhead waterleaf2 obs
- sticky currant2 obs
- liverwort navel2 obs
- Tweedy's lewisia2 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/11968496778
Day trips start here
- Leavenworth · 12 mi
- Cashmere · 16 mi
- Waterville · 22 mi
- Wenatchee · 24 mi
- East Wenatchee · 25 mi
- Stevens Pass · 26 mi
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