O'Brien Spring
O'Brien Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,703 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the east-southeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Lightner Peak, a peak 1.0 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Lightner Peak: 1.0 mi
- O'Brien Hill: 1.0 mi
- Rankin Peak: 1.7 mi
- Hooper Hill: 3.9 mi
- Ball Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Murphy Spring: 2.8 mi
- Barrel Spring: 3.8 mi
- Metoe Spring: 3.8 mi
- Johnson Spring: 4.2 mi
- Delonegha Hot Springs: 4.4 mi
- Uffert Park: 7.1 mi
- Lake Isabella Park: 7.6 mi
- Mountain Mesa Park: 11.3 mi
- Freear Park: 13.8 mi
- Wofford Heights Park: 14.0 mi
- Coso Mines: 11.2 mi
- woody rd: 20.7 mi
- Tehachapi Loop: 22.1 mi
- checkpoint: 23.3 mi
- Silver City Ghost Town: 6.3 mi
- Kern Valley Museum: 17.7 mi
- California Living Museum: 19.9 mi
- Upper Richbar Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Lower Richbar Picnic Area: 10.4 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 10.7 mi
- Martyr's Rock: 20.0 mi
- The Cross on the Loop: 22.0 mi
- Tehachapi Loop Overlook: 22.5 mi
- Lake Ming County Park: 19.0 mi
- Rattlesnake Canyon: 20.9 mi
- Chalk Cliff: 19.3 mi
- Mon Bluff: 23.0 mi
- Miracle Hot Springs: 4.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of O'Brien Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute Peak | ESE 118° | 2,565 m | 10.1 mi |
| Sunday Peak | N 354° | 2,531 m | 18.2 mi |
| Brown Peak | ESE 109° | 2,466 m | 7.5 mi |
| Liebel Peak | E 96° | 2,452 m | 8.6 mi |
| Portuguese Peak | N 354° | 2,417 m | 18.8 mi |
| Inspiration Point | E 93° | 2,387 m | 10.8 mi |
| Sorrell Peak | ESE 116° | 2,348 m | 16.3 mi |
| Breckenridge Mountain | SSW 202° | 2,298 m | 5.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:36 | 20:14 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:19 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:01 | 16:06 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 43 | 44 | 47 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 68 | 59 | 50 | 43 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Loraine 5 NNE, 12 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Aug — fullest in Jun, leanest in Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 205 | 300 | 496 | 812 | 1,222 | 1,612 | 1,389 | 916 | 435 | 300 | 217 | 148 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Kern R NR Democrat Springs(river Only) CA, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Dense fruited monkeyflower8 obs
- California buckeye5 obs
- chaparral yucca5 obs
- piute cypress5 obs
- Dark-eyed Junco4 obs
- cardinal catchfly4 obs
- gunsight clarkia4 obs
- Van Dyke's Bumble Bee4 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/9461230420
Day trips start here
- Kern County · 25 mi
- Bakersfield · 29 mi
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