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Quail Spring

Quail Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Quail Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 910 m. Condrey Mountain stands 2,164 m to the east-northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Lower Devils Peak, a peak 1.2 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates41.87087, -123.17948

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Springs: 20
Attractions: 10
  • Cook and Green Trailhead: 7.6 mi
  • Stein butte trailhead: 9.8 mi
  • Fir glade trailhead: 10.9 mi
  • Bigfoot Trap: 13.0 mi
  • Sugar pine river access: 13.6 mi
Waterfalls: 5
  • Horsetail Falls: 4.7 mi
  • Ponytail Falls: 4.9 mi
  • Maple Falls: 15.5 mi
  • Loretta Falls: 20.2 mi
  • Wilderness Falls: 23.8 mi
Historic sites: 3
Parks: 3
  • Happy Camp River Park: 11.2 mi
  • Tunnel Ridge Recreation Site: 24.2 mi
  • Little Applegate Recreation Site: 24.7 mi
Cliffs: 2
Ghost towns: 2
Museums: 2
Picnic sites: 1
  • Seattle Bar Day Use Area: 9.8 mi
Beaches: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Quail Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Condrey MountainENE 66°2,164 m11.3 mi
Tom Martin PeakSSE 150°2,140 m10.5 mi
Scraggy MountainNE 56°2,117 m11.0 mi
Buckhorn MountainSSW 195°2,103 m14.1 mi
Lake MountainSSE 164°2,096 m8.8 mi
Dry Lake MountainENE 78°2,063 m12.5 mi
Red ButteN 357°2,054 m4.1 mi
Kangaroo MountainNNW 343°2,040 m3.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1718:4819:25
June solstice05:3820:1020:52
September equinox07:0118:3519:12
December solstice07:3816:0016:45

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F404347515965727165554539
Precip in4.43.03.02.11.40.70.50.40.62.33.95.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ruch, 25 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Aug.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs5,1925,5895,9735,6524,8773,0791,5691,3371,5121,9262,6624,074

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Klamath R NR Seiad Valley CA, 3 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • Siskiyou Mountains Salamander6 obs
  • Common Madia4 obs
  • roseflower stonecrop4 obs
  • California Lady's Slipper3 obs
  • western maidenhair fern3 obs
  • baker's cypress3 obs
  • Pine Violet3 obs
  • Flat Spurred Piperia3 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/6474720022

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