Saddle Spring
Saddle Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 2,107 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the south-southeast, 4.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Sunset Point, a peak 0.6 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sunset Point: 0.6 mi
- Liebel Peak: 1.2 mi
- Brown Peak: 2.5 mi
- Inspiration Point: 3.1 mi
- Bodfish Peak: 3.2 mi
- Cold Spring: 3.7 mi
- Steve Spring: 4.3 mi
- Piute Spring: 5.2 mi
- Gautche Springs: 5.8 mi
- Thompson Spring: 6.1 mi
- Uffert Park: 7.4 mi
- Lake Isabella Park: 7.8 mi
- Mountain Mesa Park: 8.1 mi
- South Fork Wildlife Area: 11.3 mi
- Kern River Preserve: 11.7 mi
- Upper Richbar Picnic Area: 17.7 mi
- Lower Richbar Picnic Area: 17.9 mi
- Live Oak Picnic Area: 18.2 mi
- Berts Canyon Picnic Area: 23.6 mi
- Martyr's Rock: 21.7 mi
- The Cross on the Loop: 23.0 mi
- Tehachapi Loop Overlook: 23.4 mi
- Silver City Ghost Town: 7.0 mi
- Kern Valley Museum: 16.3 mi
- Coso Mines: 11.1 mi
- Tehachapi Loop: 23.2 mi
- Miracle Hot Springs: 7.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.6 miles of Saddle Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piute Peak | SSE 166° | 2,565 m | 4.9 mi |
| Brown Peak | SSW 196° | 2,466 m | 2.5 mi |
| Liebel Peak | SE 136° | 2,452 m | 1.2 mi |
| Inspiration Point | E 99° | 2,387 m | 3.1 mi |
| Sorrell Peak | SE 135° | 2,348 m | 9.9 mi |
| Breckenridge Mountain | WSW 244° | 2,298 m | 10.7 mi |
| Black Mountain | NNW 338° | 2,267 m | 16.6 mi |
| Skinner Peak | ENE 78° | 2,172 m | 16.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 19:35 | 20:13 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:00 | 16:06 | 16:45 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 48 | 52 | 57 | 67 | 76 | 82 | 80 | 73 | 62 | 51 | 44 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — S Lake FS, 9 mi away.
- Party-colored Monkeyflower17 obs
- fineflowered gilia7 obs
- western columbine6 obs
- Goosefoot violet6 obs
- Greenish Blue6 obs
- Mylitta Crescent5 obs
- springbank clover5 obs
- Big deervetch5 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/9461123573
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