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Pepperwood Spring

Pepperwood Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Pepperwood Spring is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 906 m. Mount Linn stands 2,464 m to the west, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Twin Springs, a spring 1.6 miles away.

What the record says

Elevation
906 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.00988, -122.65972

Named places within 25 miles

Springs
Peaks
  • Brush Mountain: 1.8 mi
  • Franklin Point: 2.7 mi
  • Red Mountain: 3.2 mi
  • Ball Rock: 5.1 mi
  • Eagle Peak: 5.8 mi
Parks: 9
  • Burris Creek Recreation Area: 19.7 mi
  • Buckhorn Recreation Area: 20.7 mi
  • Ridgeway Park: 20.9 mi
  • Observation Point Recreation Area: 21.9 mi
  • Eagle Pass Recreation Area: 22.0 mi
Cliffs: 2
Historic sites: 2
  • Indian Dick Forest Service Station: 21.7 mi
  • Rattlesnake Firefighter Memorial: 23.7 mi
Picnic sites: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.3 miles of Pepperwood Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LinnW 280°2,464 m10.5 mi
South Yolla BollyW 280°2,420 m11.0 mi
North Yolla Bolly MountainsNW 308°2,381 m21.0 mi
Black Rock MountainNW 306°2,367 m22.9 mi
Solomon PeakW 273°2,306 m15.7 mi
Hammerhorn MountainW 268°2,299 m15.4 mi
Black ButteSSW 210°2,252 m22.6 mi
Twin PeaksW 272°2,247 m10.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4719:23
June solstice05:4320:0320:44
September equinox06:5918:3419:09
December solstice07:3016:0616:49

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F475155606876828075655347
Precip in4.74.12.91.51.20.40.10.10.21.02.54.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RED Bluff Muni AP, 24 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Apr — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs23127322515082.729.98.33.22.88.039.3136

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Elder C NR Paskenta CA, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • checker lily8 obs
  • Warrior's Plume4 obs
  • leather oak3 obs
  • Cardinal Meadowhawk2 obs
  • Western Redbud2 obs
  • sickle-fruit jewelflower2 obs
  • California snowdrop bush2 obs
  • Oracle Oak2 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/2295387365

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