Quail Spring
Quail Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,341 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Trail Spring, a spring 1.2 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Trail Spring: 1.2 mi
- Tolly Spring: 1.5 mi
- Peeping Tom Spring: 1.8 mi
- Ruth Camp Spring: 1.8 mi
- Springfield Spring: 2.2 mi
- Cache Peak: 4.0 mi
- Cross Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Middle Knob: 5.0 mi
- White Mountain: 5.1 mi
- Chuckwalla Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park: 10.2 mi
- Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park: 10.9 mi
- Mojave West Park: 11.4 mi
- Balsitis Park: 12.1 mi
- Mojave East Park: 12.3 mi
- Red cliffs trail: 14.8 mi
- Historic Water Tower: 16.4 mi
- Historic Tehachapi Depot: 16.5 mi
- Tehachapi Loop: 20.4 mi
- Burro Schmidt Tunnel: 21.2 mi
- Desert Tortoise Preserve: 13.9 mi
- Red Cliffs Natural Preserve: 15.2 mi
- Desert Tortoise Habitat Area: 16.4 mi
- Red Rock Canyon State Park: 16.7 mi
- Desert Tortoise Preserve: 17.3 mi
- Josephine Stephens Bishop: 11.3 mi
- Cudahy camp: 19.2 mi
- Tehachapi Loop Overlook: 20.2 mi
- The Cross on the Loop: 20.2 mi
- Martyr's Rock: 21.6 mi
- Tehachapi Depot Museum: 16.5 mi
- Tehachapi Museum: 16.6 mi
- Tehachapi Heritage League Museum: 16.6 mi
- Errea House Museum: 16.6 mi
- Errea House Museum: 16.6 mi
- Red Rooster Picnic Site: 13.9 mi
- Donley: 14.0 mi
- Tamarisk Grove: 14.2 mi
- Last Chance Canyon Arch: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.8 miles of Quail Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute Peak | NW 323° | 2,565 m | 19.7 mi |
| Brown Peak | NW 322° | 2,466 m | 22.6 mi |
| Liebel Peak | NNW 328° | 2,452 m | 23.1 mi |
| Double Mountain | SW 233° | 2,430 m | 21.9 mi |
| Tehachapi Mountain | SW 235° | 2,418 m | 21.2 mi |
| Covington Mountain | SW 229° | 2,392 m | 22.1 mi |
| Inspiration Point | NNW 333° | 2,387 m | 22.2 mi |
| Sorrell Peak | NNW 335° | 2,348 m | 14.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:34 | 20:11 |
| September equinox | 06:41 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:58 | 16:06 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 67 | 77 | 83 | 82 | 75 | 64 | 52 | 44 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mojave, 12 mi away.
- Sidewinder8 obs
- Western Leaf-nosed Snake4 obs
- Western Banded Gecko4 obs
- Western Glossy Snake4 obs
- Gopher Snake2 obs
- Western Whiptail2 obs
- Mojave desertparsley2 obs
- whitedaisy tidytips2 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/935616617
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