Stud Horse Spring
Stud Horse Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,837 m. Boulder Peak stands 2,512 m to the southeast, 7.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Maple Falls, a waterfall 1.4 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Big Ridge: 2.8 mi
- Buckhorn Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Red Rock: 4.0 mi
- Kings Castle: 4.2 mi
- Huckleberry Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Faulkstein Spring: 2.8 mi
- Buckhorn Spring: 3.6 mi
- Cold Spring: 5.2 mi
- Maple Spring: 5.8 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 7.1 mi
- Open Soon: 16.3 mi
- Graffiti Gate: 20.3 mi
- Etna High School Lion Statue: 20.4 mi
- Etna Horseback Miner Statue: 20.4 mi
- Skeleton Car: 20.5 mi
- Maple Falls: 1.4 mi
- Horsetail Falls: 18.2 mi
- Ponytail Falls: 18.4 mi
- Johnson Creek Falls: 19.8 mi
- Wilderness Falls: 24.5 mi
- Scotts Bar Monument: 10.5 mi
- Oro Fino Historic Plaque: 14.8 mi
- Ormond Edward Quigley: 20.8 mi
- Robert Roosevelt Quigley: 20.8 mi
- Cabin: 21.4 mi
- Sugar pine river access: 6.9 mi
- Cook and Green Trailhead: 21.6 mi
- Stein butte trailhead: 23.8 mi
- Fir glade trailhead: 24.0 mi
- Limestone Bluffs: 7.7 mi
- Ferry Point: 13.0 mi
- Blue Nose Bluff: 19.4 mi
- Happy Camp River Park: 13.0 mi
- City Park: 17.9 mi
- Johnson - Joss Park: 20.5 mi
- The People's Center: 13.4 mi
- Fort Jones Museum: 18.0 mi
- Etna Museum: 20.9 mi
- Jones Beach: 6.6 mi
- Seattle Bar Day Use Area: 23.8 mi
- Yreka Phlox Preserve: 24.6 mi
- Copper: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of Stud Horse Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder Peak | SE 143° | 2,512 m | 7.7 mi |
| Black Marble Mountain | S 190° | 2,268 m | 6.3 mi |
| Kings Castle | SSW 210° | 2,257 m | 4.2 mi |
| English Peak | S 185° | 2,229 m | 18.5 mi |
| Box Camp Mountain | S 179° | 2,215 m | 4.8 mi |
| Big Ridge | W 259° | 2,141 m | 2.8 mi |
| Tom Martin Peak | NE 47° | 2,140 m | 7.3 mi |
| Marble Mountain | SSW 193° | 2,131 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:48 | 19:25 |
| June solstice | 05:39 | 20:09 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:35 | 19:12 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:01 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 40 | 45 | 50 | 59 | 66 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Yreka, 28 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–Jun — fullest in May, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 994 | 1,089 | 1,005 | 1,007 | 1,111 | 667 | 166 | 52.9 | 45.0 | 93.5 | 282 | 745 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Scott R NR Fort Jones CA, 9 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Broad-leaved Stonecrop4 obs
- Pacific Dogwood4 obs
- scarlet fritillary3 obs
- Western Terrestrial Garter Snake2 obs
- Sierra Gooseberry2 obs
- Shelton's Violet2 obs
- Scott Bar Salamander1 obs
- Ensatina1 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/1059767686
Day trips start here
- Etna · 21 mi
- Klamath River · 23 mi
- Yreka · 28 mi
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