Salt Spring
Salt Spring is a spring in Arizona, at a modelled elevation of 436 m. Iron Mountain stands 1,956 m to the southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is The Temple, a cliff 4.2 miles away. Gold Butte Back Country Byway passes 20 miles off. 101 named places lie within 25 miles, 37 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 20.4 mi off the Gold Butte Back Country Byway
- 24.9 mi off the Bitter Springs Back Country Byway
101 named places within 25 miles
- Burro Spring: 5.5 mi
- Ruby Spring: 12.6 mi
- Twin Springs: 13.1 mi
- Grapevine Spring: 13.5 mi
- Turkey Spring: 13.5 mi
- Delmar Butte: 5.5 mi
- Golden Rule Peak: 6.8 mi
- The Haystacks: 7.1 mi
- Gold Cross Peak: 7.4 mi
- Round Rock Point: 8.1 mi
- The Temple: 4.2 mi
- Big Gypsum Ledges: 10.5 mi
- Grand Wash Cliffs: 16.0 mi
- Grand Wash Cliffs: 16.2 mi
- Center Point: 18.0 mi
- Scanlon Ferry (submerged): 6.2 mi
- Stone Ferry (submerged): 16.0 mi
- Ghost Town of White Hills: 23.3 mi
- Tassi Ranch: 24.9 mi
- Rioville: 13.7 mi
- White Hills: 19.0 mi
- Pearce Ferry Rapid: 18.0 mi
- Columbine Falls: 20.1 mi
- Willow Beach Scenic Overlook: 21.5 mi
- Petrified Dunes: 22.6 mi
- Boulder Canyon Wild Life Refuge: 21.9 mi
- Redstone Picnic Area: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Salt Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Mountain | SE 126° | 1,956 m | 16.8 mi |
| Garnet Mountain | SE 137° | 1,951 m | 17.5 mi |
| Jumbo Peak | NNE 16° | 1,736 m | 15.6 mi |
| Mica Peak | NNE 16° | 1,719 m | 20.0 mi |
| Mount Wilson | W 272° | 1,663 m | 19.8 mi |
| Bonelli Peak | N 2° | 1,601 m | 11.1 mi |
| Senator Mountain | SSW 198° | 1,562 m | 11.0 mi |
| Gold Butte | NNE 12° | 1,529 m | 20.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:41 | 18:15 | 18:49 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 19:20 | 19:58 |
| September equinox | 06:26 | 18:02 | 18:35 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 16:48 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Phoenix).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Oct–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 53 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 89 | 96 | 94 | 85 | 71 | 57 | 48 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Temple BAR, 5 mi away.
- Buckhorn Cholla2 obs
- Bigelow's monkeyflower2 obs
- Tamarix chinensis2 obs
- Brittlebush1 obs
- Beavertail Pricklypear1 obs
- Desert Trumpet1 obs
- willow baccharis1 obs
- Death Valley Phacelia1 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/2006092769
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