Root Spring
Root Spring is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 548 m. Snow Mountain stands 2,127 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Steamboat Point, a cliff 1.2 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 548 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sugarloaf Mountain: 1.3 mi
- Campbell Mound: 3.8 mi
- Promontory Point: 5.0 mi
- Brushy Mountain: 5.6 mi
- Platte Mountain: 7.4 mi
- Upper Bidwell Park: 10.7 mi
- Hancock Park: 10.7 mi
- Wildwood Park: 11.2 mi
- Rotary Centennial Park: 11.2 mi
- DeGarmo Community Park: 11.4 mi
- Negro Spring: 2.1 mi
- Bell Spring: 3.9 mi
- Sulphur Lick: 6.8 mi
- Bennett Spring: 7.5 mi
- Cold Spring: 10.5 mi
- Chico Air Museum: 9.3 mi
- Museum of Northern California Art: 13.4 mi
- Gateway Science Museum: 13.6 mi
- Vertebrate Museum: 13.8 mi
- Chico Children's Museum: 13.8 mi
- IN HONOR OF ALL CHICO AREA VETERANS: 11.3 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 11.4 mi
- Bidwell Mansion: 13.7 mi
- Chico Community Labyrinth: 13.7 mi
- IN LOVING MEMORY OF Kristina Chesterman 1992-2013: 13.8 mi
- Downtown Kaleidoscope: 13.8 mi
- Monoliths: 13.8 mi
- Chico State Flame: 13.9 mi
- Ring Roll: 13.9 mi
- Three Sisters: 13.9 mi
- Steamboat Point: 1.2 mi
- East China Point: 13.6 mi
- Cape Horn: 19.0 mi
- Clarenback Point: 19.4 mi
- Mill Creek Rim: 20.6 mi
- Lower Deer Creek Falls: 19.9 mi
- Deer Creek Falls: 23.9 mi
- Phantom Falls: 24.8 mi
- Little Phantom Falls: 24.9 mi
- Lower Ravine Falls: 25.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 13.7 mi
- Mary Lemcke Camellia Garden: 13.8 mi
- George Petersen Rose Garden: 14.0 mi
- Chico Seed Orchard: 15.1 mi
- Five Mile: 11.3 mi
- Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 12.3 mi
- Philbrook Picnic Area: 18.5 mi
- Soto: 13.0 mi
- Monroeville: 19.9 mi
- Gray Davis Dye Creek Preserve: 16.9 mi
- Deer Creek Preserve: 19.8 mi
- LT. John C. Helmick Rest Area: 22.0 mi
- LT. John C. Helmick Rest Area: 22.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Root Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snow Mountain | ENE 63° | 2,127 m | 21.5 mi |
| Humboldt Summit | NE 48° | 2,085 m | 23.6 mi |
| Spring Valley Mountain | ENE 73° | 2,081 m | 22.4 mi |
| Table Mountain | E 79° | 1,913 m | 19.5 mi |
| Colby Mountain | NE 42° | 1,834 m | 20.6 mi |
| Onion Butte | NNE 31° | 1,771 m | 22.2 mi |
| Bald Mountain | E 83° | 1,761 m | 16.1 mi |
| Onion Summit | NNE 28° | 1,698 m | 22.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:44 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 19:59 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:26 | 16:03 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 45 | 49 | 53 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 74 | 69 | 60 | 49 | 43 |
| Precip in | 11.9 | 11.8 | 9.6 | 5.2 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.4 | 6.4 | 13.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — DE Sabla, 10 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–Jul — fullest in Mar, leanest in Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 57.4 | 66.2 | 76.4 | 65.3 | 65.8 | 72.2 | 62.7 | 53.2 | 33.8 | 27.9 | 36.1 | 48.4 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Toadtown Canal AB Butte Canal NR Stirling City CA, 10 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/2295412281
Day trips start here
- Chico · 12 mi
- Corning · 21 mi
- Tehama County · 27 mi
- Red Bluff · 30 mi
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