Sheephead Spring
Sheephead Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 969 m. Funeral Peak stands 1,946 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Sheephead Mountain, a peak 1.4 miles away. 80 named places lie within 25 miles, 26 of them named summits.
How to reach it
80 named places within 25 miles
- Salsberry Spring: 2.3 mi
- Montgomery Spring: 4.1 mi
- Rhodes Spring: 7.0 mi
- Ibex Spring: 8.8 mi
- Shoshone Spring: 9.3 mi
- Sheephead Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Ibex Peak: 1.6 mi
- Salsberry Peak: 4.3 mi
- Rhodes Hill: 5.5 mi
- Epaulet Peak: 8.3 mi
- Lost Cabin: 6.8 mi
- Confidence Mills Ruins: 9.7 mi
- Ashford Mill: 15.6 mi
- noonday camp - camp millsite: 18.0 mi
- Alexander Mill Site: 18.3 mi
- Death Valley National Park Signage: 6.8 mi
- Dublin Gulch Cave Homes: 9.0 mi
- Tecopa Hot Springs Resort Yaga Labyrinth: 10.0 mi
- China Ranch Date Farm: 13.7 mi
- Ibex Dunes: 14.3 mi
- Shoshone Park: 9.2 mi
- Tecopa Park & Campground: 9.9 mi
- Veteran's Hill Swingset: 18.0 mi
- Veteran's Hill Swingset: 18.0 mi
- Salt Creek Hills ACEC: 20.4 mi
- Shoshone Museum: 9.2 mi
- A Modest Musieum: 13.7 mi
- Tecopa Natural Hot Springs: 9.7 mi
- The Palisades: 14.3 mi
- Salt Creek Riparian Area: 20.5 mi
- Greenwater: 22.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sheephead Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Funeral Peak | NW 319° | 1,945.8 m | 18.6 mi |
| Nopah Peak | ENE 66° | 1,943 m | 19.8 mi |
| Smith Mountain | WNW 297° | 1,744 m | 17.8 mi |
| Smith Mountain | WNW 296° | 1,641 m | 15.4 mi |
| Brown Peak | N 5° | 1,505 m | 15.0 mi |
| Epaulet Peak | NW 308° | 1,455 m | 8.3 mi |
| Epaulet Peak | NW 308° | 1,452.7 m | 8.3 mi |
| Ibex Peak | SSW 201° | 1,447 m | 1.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:24 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 19:28 | 20:06 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:10 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 06:53 | 15:56 | 16:36 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Months at or above the year’s average flow: year-round — fullest in Jan, leanest in Jan.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Borehole Spg Channel NR Tecopa Hot Spgs, CA, 10 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
Inside the official boundary of Death Valley National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Sep and Jun; busiest: Mar.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
- Amargosa Pupfish4 obs
- apricot globemallow3 obs
- common eucrypta3 obs
- Death Valley Phacelia3 obs
- Common Chuckwalla2 obs
- Beavertail Pricklypear2 obs
- snake's-head2 obs
- whispering bells2 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/11445769493
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