Salt Lick Spring
Salt Lick Spring is a spring in California, at a recorded elevation of 448 m. Mount Linn stands 2,464 m to the west, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Pine Spring, a spring 2.0 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 448 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Pine Spring: 2.0 mi
- Pepperwood Spring: 2.3 mi
- Twin Springs: 3.7 mi
- Bear Wallow Spring: 4.6 mi
- Jungle Spring: 5.0 mi
- Franklin Point: 2.3 mi
- Brush Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Red Mountain: 5.2 mi
- Gleason Peak: 6.8 mi
- Ball Rock: 7.2 mi
- Ridgeway Park: 19.0 mi
- Burris Creek Recreation Area: 20.5 mi
- Buckhorn Recreation Area: 21.4 mi
- Trainor Park: 22.4 mi
- Observation Point Recreation Area: 22.4 mi
- LT. John C. Helmick Rest Area: 24.0 mi
- LT. John C. Helmick Rest Area: 24.1 mi
- Herbert S. Miles Rest Area: 24.8 mi
- Stony Point: 6.1 mi
- Eagle Rock: 7.9 mi
- Indian Dick Forest Service Station: 22.9 mi
- Kelly-Griggs House Museum: 23.3 mi
- Plaskett Meadows Picnic Area: 24.2 mi
- Discovery Garden: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Salt Lick Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Linn | W 269° | 2,464 m | 11.4 mi |
| South Yolla Bolly | W 270° | 2,420 m | 11.9 mi |
| North Yolla Bolly Mountains | WNW 302° | 2,381 m | 20.7 mi |
| Black Rock Mountain | WNW 300° | 2,367 m | 22.7 mi |
| Solomon Peak | W 266° | 2,306 m | 16.8 mi |
| Hammerhorn Mountain | W 261° | 2,299 m | 16.7 mi |
| Twin Peaks | W 262° | 2,247 m | 11.4 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | W 272° | 2,246 m | 16.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:47 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 20:03 | 20:44 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:30 | 16:06 | 16:49 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 51 | 55 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 82 | 80 | 75 | 65 | 53 | 47 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 4.1 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RED Bluff Muni AP, 22 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Apr — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 231 | 273 | 225 | 150 | 82.7 | 29.9 | 8.3 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 8.0 | 39.3 | 136 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Elder C NR Paskenta CA, 7 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/2295412284
Day trips start here
- Tehama County · 22 mi
- Red Bluff · 23 mi
- Corning · 25 mi
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