Murphy Spring
Murphy Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 2,481 m. Excelsior Mountain stands 3,791 m to the southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Sugarloaf, a peak 2.5 miles away. Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road passes 22 miles off.
How to reach it
- 22.1 mi off the Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road, National
Overlooks nearby
- Tioga Lake Overlook Info Site · 22 mi
- Disappearing Meadows · 25 mi
- Lembert Dome · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugarloaf: 2.5 mi
- Bodie Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Mount Biedeman: 2.7 mi
- Silver Hill: 2.9 mi
- Potato Peak: 3.5 mi
- Warm Spring: 3.6 mi
- Coyote Spring: 5.1 mi
- Kirkwood Spring: 5.3 mi
- Kirkwood Spring: 5.8 mi
- Waford Spring: 7.1 mi
- Machinery: 2.7 mi
- Bottle Works (Site): 2.7 mi
- Catholic Church (site): 2.7 mi
- Red Cloud Mining Equipment: 2.8 mi
- Carpenter Shop: 2.8 mi
- Bodie: 2.8 mi
- Dog Town: 7.8 mi
- Aurora: 10.9 mi
- Dunderberg Mill: 12.2 mi
- Masonic: 12.3 mi
- Bodie Museum and Visitor Center: 2.7 mi
- Old Mono County Jail: 10.4 mi
- Mono County Museum: 10.5 mi
- Mono Basin Historical Society: 16.4 mi
- Bodie State Historic Park: 3.0 mi
- Mono Lake Park: 12.9 mi
- Gus Hess Community Park: 16.3 mi
- Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area: 16.6 mi
- Travertine Hot Spring: 8.9 mi
- Upside-Down House: 16.4 mi
- South Tufa Area: 17.2 mi
- Navy Beach: 17.4 mi
- Warm Springs: 13.9 mi
- Booker Hot Spring: 21.1 mi
- Walker River Hot Spring: 21.1 mi
- Fales Hot Spring: 21.7 mi
- Bodie Bluff: 3.6 mi
- Locomotive Point: 8.4 mi
- Dore Cliff: 17.8 mi
- Danburg Beach: 12.9 mi
- Navy Beach: 17.3 mi
- The Elbow: 16.6 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 17.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.2 miles of Murphy Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior Mountain | SW 230° | 3,791 m | 17.8 mi |
| Dunderberg Peak | SW 234° | 3,774 m | 14.7 mi |
| Mount Warren | SSW 213° | 3,758 m | 16.6 mi |
| Twin Peaks | WSW 246° | 3,756 m | 18.0 mi |
| Matterhorn Peak | WSW 249° | 3,749.3 m | 18.9 mi |
| Twin Peaks-East Peak | WSW 245° | 3,731 m | 17.8 mi |
| The Dragtooth | WSW 250° | 3,695.4 m | 19.0 mi |
| Virginia Peak | WSW 242° | 3,657 m | 18.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:44 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:20 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 15:59 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 25 | 29 | 35 | 43 | 51 | 57 | 56 | 50 | 40 | 31 | 24 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bodie California ST Historic P, 3 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Jul — fullest in May, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 11.2 | 12.6 | 16.1 | 26.4 | 38.8 | 34.2 | 20.5 | 10.5 | 9.0 | 9.8 | 11.0 | 12.1 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Virginia CK NR Bridgeport, CA, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Green-tailed Towhee7 obs
- Anderson's larkspur6 obs
- Goosefoot violet5 obs
- Sage Thrasher4 obs
- Mule Deer4 obs
- Rubber Rabbitbrush4 obs
- flatbud prickly poppy4 obs
- Antelope Bitterbrush4 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/7921853335
Day trips start here
- Mono Lake · 12 mi
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