Scotty Spring
Scotty Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,814 m. Middle Palisade stands 4,278 m to the northwest, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Sawmill Point, a peak 1.4 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sawmill Point: 1.4 mi
- Colosseum Mountain: 3.1 mi
- Lookout Point: 3.1 mi
- Mount Perkins: 3.2 mi
- Mount Cedric Wright: 4.2 mi
- Harry Birch Springs: 2.7 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 4.2 mi
- Little Blackrock Spring: 4.9 mi
- McGann Springs: 6.0 mi
- Hines Spring: 6.0 mi
- Aberdeen Station: 7.4 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 7.4 mi
- Prospect: 8.8 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 12.4 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 13.4 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 17.0 mi
- Japanese Garden: 17.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 17.0 mi
- Arai Pond: 17.0 mi
- Bk 22 Mess Hall Garden: 17.2 mi
- Rock Monster: 20.3 mi
- Saline Valley Road OHV Trailhead: 20.4 mi
- Chicken Ranch: 22.8 mi
- Boot Arch: 23.5 mi
- Man of Steel (movie site): 23.5 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 11.0 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 11.0 mi
- Triple Falls: 13.2 mi
- First Falls: 14.6 mi
- Mist Falls: 15.1 mi
- Muro Blanco: 11.1 mi
- Windy Cliff: 14.1 mi
- Great Cliffs: 16.1 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 19.4 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 24.5 mi
- Dehy Park: 11.3 mi
- Independence Park: 11.9 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 16.1 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 16.4 mi
- Merritt Park: 17.0 mi
- Mobius Arch: 24.9 mi
- Lathe Arch: 24.9 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 24.9 mi
- Heart Arch: 24.9 mi
- Kearsarge: 8.8 mi
- Bend City: 13.4 mi
- San Carlos: 14.3 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 11.4 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 11.5 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 17.4 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 20.9 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 21.4 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 24.6 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 4.7 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 8.7 mi
- Paiute Mural: 17.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.2 miles of Scotty Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle Palisade | NW 319° | 4,278.2 m | 12.2 mi |
| Split Mountain | NW 317° | 4,269 m | 8.0 mi |
| Disappointment Peak | NW 319° | 4,258.6 m | 12.0 mi |
| Norman Clyde Peak | NW 319° | 4,245.2 m | 12.6 mi |
| Balcony Peak | NW 319° | 4,237.2 m | 12.0 mi |
| Birch Mountain | NNW 329° | 4,134 m | 10.2 mi |
| Mount Bolton Brown | NW 320° | 4,124.3 m | 9.9 mi |
| Mount Pinchot | W 279° | 4,113.6 m | 4.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:38 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:04 | 16:00 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 12 mi away.
- California black oak9 obs
- Desert Peach8 obs
- Lone Pine Beardtongue5 obs
- Paiute false bindweed5 obs
- sulfur buckwheat5 obs
- mountain pink currant5 obs
- Mojave ceanothus5 obs
- Red Admiral4 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/9238356095
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