Willow Spring
Willow Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 803 m. Telescope Peak stands 3,369 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Smith Mountain, a peak 2.2 miles away. Death Valley Scenic Byway passes 21 miles off. 84 named places lie within 25 miles, 32 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 20.9 mi off the Death Valley Scenic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Zabriskie Point · 27 mi
84 named places within 25 miles
- Smith Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Smith Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Funeral Peak: 5.2 mi
- Desert Hound Peak: 7.1 mi
- Ashford Peak: 7.5 mi
- Scottys Spring: 5.8 mi
- Timpapah Spring: 6.0 mi
- Greenwater Spring: 7.9 mi
- Virgin Spring: 8.8 mi
- Rhodes Spring: 12.2 mi
- Ashford Mill: 9.0 mi
- Warm Spring Camp: 14.7 mi
- Confidence Mills Ruins: 16.1 mi
- Lost Cabin: 21.2 mi
- Stone Corral: 22.8 mi
- Badwater Basin: 13.2 mi
- Death Valley Natural Bridge: 16.8 mi
- Death Valley National Park Signage: 20.1 mi
- Dublin Gulch Cave Homes: 23.8 mi
- Greenwater: 9.9 mi
- Panamint City: 23.2 mi
- Dry fall: 16.9 mi
- Dry fall: 16.9 mi
- Travertine Point: 22.2 mi
- Shoshone Park: 23.9 mi
- Shoshone Museum: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Willow Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telescope Peak | WNW 291° | 3,369 m | 23.8 mi |
| Sentinel Peak | W 279° | 2,936.4 m | 22.0 mi |
| Porter Peak | W 270° | 2,774 m | 20.5 mi |
| Porter Peak | W 270° | 2,756 m | 20.5 mi |
| Slims Peak | W 265° | 2,154 m | 24.8 mi |
| Pyramid Peak | N 10° | 2,043.1 m | 24.0 mi |
| Funeral Peak | NE 44° | 1,945.8 m | 5.2 mi |
| Needle Peak | WSW 239° | 1,749 m | 22.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:31 | 19:30 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:11 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 15:57 | 16:37 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
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).
- Common Side-blotched Lizard2 obs
- Bighorn Sheep2 obs
- Emory's rockdaisy2 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk1 obs
- Fremont's pincushion1 obs
- Whitestem Blazingstar1 obs
- showy gilia1 obs
- Sagebrush Checkerspot1 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/1145792259
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