Bull Canyon is a

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at the top of Palm Canyon Wash, which is a tributary to the Whitewater River, in

Riverside County, California Riverside County is a County (United States), county located in the southern California, southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most ...

. Bull Canyon and the creek of Palm Canyon Wash heads at , at an elevation of 6,165 feet in the southern western slope of a ridge in the

San Jacinto Mountains The San Jacinto Mountains (''Avii Hanupach''Munro, P., et al. ''A Mojave Dictionary''. Los Angeles: UCLA. 1992. in Mojave) are a mountain range in Riverside County, located east of Los Angeles in southern California in the United States. The mou ...

. The waters of the creek of Palm Canyon Wash are augmented by Bull Canyon Spring at , at an elevation of . The mouth of Bull Canyon is at an elevation of at the head of Palm Canyon. The mouth of an unnamed creek flows north down from Vandeventer Flat into the head of Palm Canyon at its confluence with Palm Canyon Wash at at an elevation of 4,460 feet.

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