Wishing Spring
Wishing Spring is a spring in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 328 m. Bell Mountain stands 519 m to the east, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Howes Mill Spring, a spring 1.0 miles away. Great River Road passes 67 miles off. 126 named places lie within 25 miles, 27 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 67.1 mi off the Great River Road, National
126 named places within 25 miles
- Howes Mill Spring: 1.0 mi
- Rattlesnake Spring: 4.9 mi
- Gamblin Spring: 7.0 mi
- Woodlock Spring: 11.8 mi
- Mill Spring: 13.1 mi
- Crooked Hill: 4.6 mi
- Dillard Hill: 7.5 mi
- Hedley Knob: 8.1 mi
- Ball Hill: 8.3 mi
- Camels Hump: 8.4 mi
- Dillard Mill State Historic Site: 5.8 mi
- Scotia Demonstration Area: 8.6 mi
- Sinkin Experimental Forest: 11.1 mi
- Bonebrake: 14.7 mi
- Center Street Park: 14.7 mi
- Ozark Trail Southern John Roth Memorial: 13.2 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 14.9 mi
- SHS Tiger Tank: 15.6 mi
- SHS Football: 15.6 mi
- Obstetrics Wing: 16.7 mi
- Indian Rock Bluff: 12.0 mi
- Red Bluff: 12.9 mi
- Sutton Bluff: 18.4 mi
- Council Bluffs: 21.0 mi
- Clarady Bluff: 23.7 mi
- The Gassy Pig: 14.8 mi
- The Gassy Pig: 14.8 mi
- The Deer Statue: 14.9 mi
- Welch Spring: 24.4 mi
- Shawnee Mac Lakes Conservation Area: 13.3 mi
- Cedar Grove Conservation Area: 23.3 mi
- Wolf Pen Hollow Waterfall: 13.5 mi
- Johnson Shut-Ins: 24.5 mi
- Dent county museum: 14.6 mi
- Bonebrake Center of Nature and History: 14.7 mi
- Chapel Hill Beach: 19.9 mi
- Pulltite: 24.5 mi
- Turner Natural Bridge: 19.0 mi
- Canoe Tower: 22.6 mi
- Sinking Creek Day Use Area: 25.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Wishing Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Mountain | E 94° | 519 m | 21.8 mi |
| Lindsey Mountain | E 96° | 507 m | 22.7 mi |
| Johnson Mountain | ENE 75° | 501 m | 21.3 mi |
| High Top Mountain | E 101° | 483 m | 24.0 mi |
| High Top Mountain | E 101° | 483 m | 24.0 mi |
| Pruitt Mountain | ENE 75° | 478 m | 24.3 mi |
| Goggins Mountain | ESE 110° | 452 m | 21.8 mi |
| Crooked Hill | N 354° | 410 m | 4.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:43 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:45 | 19:52 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:29 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 16:10 | 16:51 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 37 | 46 | 56 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salem, 15 mi away.
- American Beaver2 obs
- cream wild-indigo2 obs
- Eastern Musk Turtle1 obs
- Virginia pine1 obs
- northern spicebush1 obs
- sassafras1 obs
- fire pink1 obs
- field thistle1 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/5676625297
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