Soft Water Spring
Soft Water Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 2,019 m. Boulder Peak stands 2,512 m to the east-northeast, 5.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Cold Spring, a spring 1.0 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Marble Mountain: 2.4 mi
- Black Marble Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Box Camp Mountain: 3.8 mi
- Elk Peak: 4.1 mi
- Boulder Peak: 5.1 mi
- Cold Spring: 1.0 mi
- Back Meadows Springs: 5.4 mi
- Stud Horse Spring: 8.6 mi
- Buckhorn Spring: 9.6 mi
- Cub Bear Spring: 9.8 mi
- Open Soon: 14.0 mi
- Graffiti Gate: 15.0 mi
- Skeleton Car: 15.4 mi
- Horse Statue: 15.5 mi
- Etna High School Lion Statue: 15.5 mi
- Limestone Bluffs: 16.0 mi
- Ferry Point: 16.1 mi
- Grant Bluffs: 18.2 mi
- Blue Nose Bluff: 18.4 mi
- Dougherty Bluff: 18.5 mi
- Oro Fino Historic Plaque: 13.5 mi
- Ormond Edward Quigley: 15.6 mi
- Robert Roosevelt Quigley: 15.6 mi
- Scotts Bar Monument: 16.5 mi
- Johnson - Joss Park: 15.6 mi
- City Park: 17.7 mi
- Happy Camp River Park: 19.9 mi
- H E Beck Junior Memorial Branch: 24.0 mi
- Maple Falls: 7.2 mi
- Johnson Creek Falls: 14.6 mi
- Ishi Pishi Falls: 19.9 mi
- Etna Museum: 15.9 mi
- Fort Jones Museum: 17.9 mi
- The People's Center: 20.1 mi
- Jones Beach: 9.0 mi
- Sugar pine river access: 12.4 mi
- Russian Wilderness: 19.8 mi
- Negro Flat: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.0 miles of Soft Water Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder Peak | ENE 61° | 2,512 m | 5.1 mi |
| Russian Peak | SSE 147° | 2,459 m | 21.5 mi |
| Etna Mountain | SE 133° | 2,294.5 m | 15.8 mi |
| Eaton Peak | SE 142° | 2,285 m | 20.8 mi |
| Black Marble Mountain | NNW 331° | 2,268 m | 2.7 mi |
| Kings Castle | NNW 336° | 2,257 m | 5.4 mi |
| English Peak | S 191° | 2,229 m | 10.0 mi |
| Box Camp Mountain | N 358° | 2,215 m | 3.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:49 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 20:09 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:35 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:02 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 41 | 45 | 50 | 57 | 63 | 70 | 69 | 63 | 53 | 43 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Callahan, 23 mi away.
- cliff maids30 obs
- Glacier Lily20 obs
- Columbian Windflower15 obs
- spotted fritillary14 obs
- Scarlet Gilia13 obs
- white marsh marigold11 obs
- California Jacob's ladder11 obs
- fireweed11 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/471149050
Day trips start here
- Etna · 16 mi
- Callahan · 25 mi
- Klamath River · 29 mi
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