Milk Ranch Spring
Milk Ranch Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,637 m. Cooper Peak stands 2,913 m to the northeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Box Spring, a spring 1.2 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 20 miles off.
How to reach it
- 19.5 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
- 20.5 mi off the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Viewpoint for Giant Sequoias · 24 mi
- Liberty Vista Point · 25 mi
- Hell's Kitchen Vista Point · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Thompson Peak: 3.2 mi
- Marble Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Mount Lewis: 4.9 mi
- Duckwall Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Murphy Peak: 6.4 mi
- West Side Memorial Park: 10.7 mi
- Willow Springs Park: 10.9 mi
- Tuolumne State Game Refuge: 13.5 mi
- Groveland Sports Complex: 15.9 mi
- Mary Laveroni Park: 16.4 mi
- Box Spring: 1.2 mi
- Deadwood Spring: 2.5 mi
- Camp Twentyone Spring: 2.6 mi
- Sam Williams Spring: 3.4 mi
- Hull Creek Spring: 3.7 mi
- Tuolumne City Memorial Museum: 10.6 mi
- Nature Museum: 16.3 mi
- Interpretive Center: 16.3 mi
- Groveland Museum: 16.4 mi
- Groveland Jail: 16.6 mi
- Heisler #2 Steam Engine: 10.7 mi
- Jamestown Branch Jail: 20.1 mi
- Big Stump: 20.5 mi
- Campfire Center: 20.6 mi
- Moaning Caverns Adventure Park: 21.4 mi
- Jawbone Falls: 6.1 mi
- Preston Falls: 15.2 mi
- Tueeulala Falls: 17.3 mi
- Wapama Falls: 17.6 mi
- Rancheria Falls: 20.7 mi
- Strawberry: 11.0 mi
- Miner’s Camp: 14.2 mi
- Springfield Armory/School/Store: 18.5 mi
- Grumman TS-2A Tracker: 18.6 mi
- Murphys: 22.1 mi
- Remote Camp: 14.0 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 17.3 mi
- Oak Leaf: 18.6 mi
- Carlon Day Use Area: 19.7 mi
- Moccasin Point: 20.8 mi
- Beach 2: 11.1 mi
- Beach 1: 11.1 mi
- Pinecrest Dog Beach: 11.3 mi
- Lake Lodge Beach: 14.9 mi
- Dunn Court Beach: 14.9 mi
- Calaveras South Grove Natural Preserve: 16.7 mi
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park: 18.4 mi
- National Recreation Area: 23.4 mi
- Red Hills: 24.4 mi
- McKays Point: 18.3 mi
- East Flange Rock: 21.4 mi
- The Grotto: 22.8 mi
- French Flat: 22.2 mi
- Chinese Camp: 23.0 mi
- Carson Hill: 23.6 mi
- Scoutmaster Grotto: 7.5 mi
- Dedication Garden: 14.2 mi
- Natural Bridge: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.0 miles of Milk Ranch Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper Peak | NE 41° | 2,913 m | 17.9 mi |
| Burst Rock | NE 45° | 2,781 m | 15.4 mi |
| Wheeler Peak | ENE 78° | 2,736 m | 19.0 mi |
| Nance Peak | E 84° | 2,578 m | 17.4 mi |
| Pinecrest Peak | NNE 32° | 2,574 m | 14.8 mi |
| Gillett Mountain | ENE 72° | 2,548 m | 16.0 mi |
| Bartlett Peak | ENE 78° | 2,531 m | 16.6 mi |
| Mercur Peak | ENE 76° | 2,468 m | 14.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:48 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:03 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 41 | 44 | 49 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 73 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 9.6 | 8.3 | 7.4 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 4.6 | 8.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cherry Valley DAM, 10 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Jun — fullest in May, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 41.5 | 51.1 | 64.3 | 104 | 365 | 313 | 62.9 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 3.6 | 9.7 | 22.4 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge SF Stanislaus R NR Long Barn CA, 6 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Ensatina2 obs
- Northern Alligator Lizard2 obs
- Echo Azure2 obs
- round-leaved sundew2 obs
- hookedspur violet2 obs
- Pale Swallowtail2 obs
- Sierra Gooseberry2 obs
- heart-leaf milkweed2 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/9767543594
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