Mud Spring
Mud Spring is a spring in Washington, at a recorded elevation of 1,388 m. Big Lou Mountain stands 2,372 m to the west-southwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Medicine Spring, a spring 1.3 miles away. Cascade Loop passes 10 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1388 m
How to reach it
- 10.0 mi off the Cascade Loop, National
- 10.0 mi off the JCT WOODS CREEK RD NEAR MONROE TO JCT US 97 NEAR PESHASTIN
- 10.0 mi off the Stevens Pass Greenway, National
- 12.0 mi off the JCT SR 10 VIC ELLENSBURG TO JCT SR 2 VIC PESHASTIN
Overlooks nearby
- Peshastin Lookout · 12 mi
- Echo Point · 28 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugarloaf Peak: 2.2 mi
- Mosquito Point: 2.7 mi
- Gold Ridge: 3.0 mi
- Chumstick Mountain: 6.1 mi
- Sauer's Mountain: 8.3 mi
- Front Street Park: 11.1 mi
- Lions Club Park: 11.3 mi
- Riverside Park: 14.2 mi
- Entiat State Wildlife Area: 14.3 mi
- Railroad Park: 14.3 mi
- Medicine Spring: 1.3 mi
- Buck Spring: 6.1 mi
- Tyee Ridge Spring No. 3: 6.3 mi
- Tyee Ridge Spring No. 2: 6.4 mi
- Tyee Ridge Spring No. 1: 6.4 mi
- Die Bergfreunde Fountain: 11.0 mi
- The Storyteller: 11.2 mi
- Emissaries: 14.1 mi
- Fountain of Dreams: 14.1 mi
- Granite Salmon: 14.2 mi
- Orion River Rafting: 6.7 mi
- Leavenworth Ziplines: 6.8 mi
- Willkommen in Leavenworth: 11.1 mi
- Maibaum: 11.2 mi
- Kestrel Vintners: 11.4 mi
- Upper Castle Rock: 12.5 mi
- Lower Castle Rock: 12.5 mi
- Ribbon Cliff: 13.8 mi
- Earthquake Point: 14.2 mi
- Number Rock: 14.4 mi
- Nutcracker Museum & Store: 11.2 mi
- Greater Leavenworth Museum: 11.2 mi
- Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village: 14.5 mi
- Columbia Breaks Fire Interpretive Center: 14.6 mi
- Entiat Museum: 14.9 mi
- Sand Bar: 11.1 mi
- Marble Rock Beach: 11.3 mi
- Hot Sand Beach: 11.4 mi
- Enchantment Beach: 11.5 mi
- Rafters Beach: 11.7 mi
- Rex (Rogers) Stamp Mill: 11.5 mi
- Der Ritter: 11.5 mi
- Dirtyface Lookout: 15.7 mi
- 1945 Lake Chelan School Bus Accident Memorial: 18.8 mi
- Lucas Homestead: 20.0 mi
- garden = pumpkin patch: 9.6 mi
- leisure = garden: 9.7 mi
- E. Lorene Young Community Garden: 10.9 mi
- Royal Bavarian Kanzlers Rose Garden: 11.2 mi
- Ohme Gardens: 19.4 mi
- Preston Falls: 11.6 mi
- Drury Falls: 12.1 mi
- McCrea Falls: 12.5 mi
- Silver Falls: 16.3 mi
- Bridal Falls: 18.1 mi
- Entiat National Fish Hatchery: 9.4 mi
- Peshastin Pinnacles State Park: 12.7 mi
- Mountain Home Ridge (CDLT): 13.7 mi
- Chelan Coulees Preserve: 17.8 mi
- Porter's Pond Nature Area: 22.6 mi
- Swiftwater Picnic Area: 10.9 mi
- Day Use Area: 17.4 mi
- Spruce Grove Day Use Area: 19.7 mi
- Pioneer Park Picnic Site: 21.6 mi
- Nason Creek Rest Area: 13.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Mud Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lou Mountain | WSW 249° | 2,372 m | 16.3 mi |
| Big Slide Mountain | WSW 247° | 2,367 m | 16.1 mi |
| Big Jim Mountain | WSW 253° | 2,366 m | 15.1 mi |
| Opportunity Mountain | W 262° | 2,287 m | 17.9 mi |
| Middle Chiwaukum | W 273° | 2,263 m | 18.5 mi |
| Frigid Mountain | WSW 250° | 2,248.5 m | 17.6 mi |
| Jay Peak | WSW 246° | 2,240 m | 15.8 mi |
| Edward Peak | SW 218° | 2,219.5 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:34 | 19:15 |
| June solstice | 05:05 | 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, 7 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 | 40.4 | 46.9 | 70.2 | 142 | 342 | 259 | 75.2 | 31.1 | 22.9 | 26.2 | 38.1 | 38.9 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Mad River AT Ardenvoir, WA, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Tweedy's lewisia7 obs
- Lyall's Mariposa Lily4 obs
- Wenatchee Mountain coneflower3 obs
- Glacier Lily2 obs
- Snowbrush Ceanothus2 obs
- subalpine fir2 obs
- orange agoseris2 obs
- roundleaf alumroot2 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/12095460291
Day trips start here
- Leavenworth · 11 mi
- Cashmere · 14 mi
- Waterville · 22 mi
- Wenatchee · 23 mi
- East Wenatchee · 24 mi
- Stevens Pass · 27 mi
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