Rock Springs
Rock Springs is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 602 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the east-northeast, 2.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Throne, a historic site 0.5 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Throne: 0.5 mi
- Music Stand: 1.1 mi
- Sitting Bull Rock and memorial: 2.4 mi
- Old Sawmill: 3.3 mi
- The Rosebowl: 4.6 mi
- Ballou Point: 0.6 mi
- Bare Knoll: 0.7 mi
- Wooded Knoll: 0.8 mi
- Mount Tamalpais West Point: 1.1 mi
- Cardiac Hill: 1.1 mi
- Barth's Retreat: 0.8 mi
- Potrero Camp: 1.0 mi
- Rifle Camp: 1.1 mi
- Bolinas Park: 5.3 mi
- Hunt Camp: 7.1 mi
- Mount Tamalpais Game Refuge: 1.4 mi
- Cascade Park: 2.6 mi
- Earnscliffe Park: 2.8 mi
- Edgewood Park: 3.0 mi
- Blithdale Park: 3.1 mi
- Stinson tree: 1.8 mi
- Founders Grove: 2.4 mi
- Redwood Tree Slice: 2.5 mi
- Marin Art & Garden Center, Ross: 4.7 mi
- Slide House: 5.6 mi
- Muir Woods National Monument: 2.0 mi
- Baltimore Canyon Open Space Preserve: 3.4 mi
- Blithedale Summit Open Space Preserve: 3.6 mi
- Martin Griffin Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Camino Alto Open Space Preserve: 4.5 mi
- Bolinas Museum: 3.9 mi
- Marin Museum of Bicycling: 5.4 mi
- Marin County Historical Society Museum: 6.3 mi
- Bay Model Visitor Center: 7.2 mi
- Marinship Exhibit: 7.2 mi
- Tamalpais Maiden: 5.4 mi
- Blackie Horse Statue: 6.8 mi
- Guardian of the Gate North (Totem 5 of 8): 6.9 mi
- Tiburon Portugese Mural Wall: 7.1 mi
- Close to the Wind: 7.5 mi
- Lauren Place: 6.3 mi
- Terra Linda Community Garden: 6.9 mi
- Canal Community Garden: 7.1 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 7.7 mi
- Miller Creek Middle School Community Garden: 9.0 mi
- Stinson Beach: 1.8 mi
- Slide Ranch North Beach: 2.6 mi
- Bolinas Beach: 3.9 mi
- Muir Beach: 4.1 mi
- Pirates Cove: 4.9 mi
- Laurel Dell Falls: 1.3 mi
- Midway Falls: 1.6 mi
- Helen Markt Falls: 1.8 mi
- Cataract Falls: 1.9 mi
- Kent Falls: 2.6 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 1.1 mi
- Colier Spring: 1.7 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 1.8 mi
- Broko Spring: 2.0 mi
- Worn Springs: 3.9 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 8.0 mi
- Quarters A: 15.4 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 15.4 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 22.9 mi
- Paint Storage: 23.0 mi
- Vent 5: 2.4 mi
- Rock Fort: 6.3 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 9.2 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 12.8 mi
- Aramai Point: 21.9 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 7.3 mi
- Temple: 11.5 mi
- Keyhole: 12.0 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 2.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.5 miles of Rock Springs. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | ENE 57° | 784 m | 2.3 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | NE 45° | 778 m | 1.2 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | NE 50° | 744 m | 1.7 mi |
| Ballou Point | W 274° | 612 m | 0.6 mi |
| Twin Knolls | NW 305° | 597 m | 1.2 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | N 3° | 575 m | 10.2 mi |
| Pine Mountain | NNW 335° | 543 m | 5.0 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | ENE 70° | 527 m | 1.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:48 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:58 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 52 | 55 | 58 | 62 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 67 | 63 | 55 | 49 |
| Precip in | 8.8 | 8.7 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 4.6 | 9.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kentfield, 5 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Mar — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 30.2 | 30.4 | 20.0 | 9.5 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 23.1 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Redwood C A Hwy 1 Bridge A Muir Beach CA, 4 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Fairy-slipper1,186 obs
- Button's Banana Slug847 obs
- Pacific trillium624 obs
- Douglas iris622 obs
- Western Fence Lizard607 obs
- milkmaids557 obs
- Pacific hound's tongue545 obs
- Andrews' Clintonia506 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/313547897
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