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Waterhole Mine Spring

Waterhole Mine Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Waterhole Mine Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,915 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the west, 4.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Lander's Meadow Spring, a spring 1.2 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.43839, -118.31211

Named places within 25 miles

Springs
Peaks
Parks: 21
Museums: 7
Attractions: 7
  • Coso Mines: 18.5 mi
  • Red cliffs trail: 19.6 mi
  • Tehachapi Loop: 20.8 mi
  • Historic Water Tower: 22.5 mi
  • Historic Tehachapi Depot: 22.5 mi
Picnic sites: 7
Historic sites: 6
Nature reserves: 2
Hot springs: 1
  • Miracle Hot Springs: 15.7 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Last Chance Canyon Arch: 22.2 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.2 miles of Waterhole Mine Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Piute PeakW 281°2,565 m4.6 mi
Brown PeakWNW 297°2,466 m7.1 mi
Liebel PeakNW 315°2,452 m6.8 mi
Inspiration PointNNW 333°2,387 m5.7 mi
Sorrell PeakSE 138°2,348 m1.9 mi
Breckenridge MountainW 273°2,298 m15.3 mi
Skinner PeakNE 49°2,172 m13.7 mi
Sunset PointNW 317°2,100 m8.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:3219:05
June solstice05:3919:3520:12
September equinox06:4218:1818:52
December solstice06:5916:0616:45

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F434447505767737368595043
Precip in2.53.12.10.90.80.10.10.30.10.50.32.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Loraine 5 NNE, 7 mi away.

  • Western Fence Lizard12 obs
  • Party-colored Monkeyflower8 obs
  • Transverse Range Phacelia7 obs
  • springbank clover6 obs
  • heart-leaf milkweed5 obs
  • golden linanthus5 obs
  • Alkali Buttercup5 obs
  • Kern frasera4 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/8558684550

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