Amedee Hot Springs
Amedee Hot Springs comes out of the ground a bit over two hundred degrees, hot enough to be near boiling, in Lassen County, a sixteen-mile drive from Janesville. This is a spring to look at from a distance. Nobody soaks in water this hot at the source. Owner and access status are both missing, so the terms of getting near it are unknown.
Under three hundred feet from an unnamed road, at about four thousand feet in Lassen County. Winters bring around thirty inches of snow; rain for the year is a modest fifteen inches. The record leaves owner and unit empty, so the ground around the source is uncharacterized. Black Mountain Lookout, fourteen or fifteen miles away, is the only overnight spot the record lists.
The best-rated months are December through February, but thirty inches of snow says winter access can close without warning. The water will scald on contact. Treat it as you would a boiling pot. Access and ownership are unrecorded. No fee is listed, and no land unit either.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Amedee Hot Springs.
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 3 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 19% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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Overview Black Mountain Lookout remained closed for the 2020 season and is expected to remain closed into 2021. Closure is due to COVID related demands in maintaining a safe environment for our customers and our staff. Black Mountain Lookout is located on the eastern edge of the Beckwourth Ranger District, 10 miles from Highway 395, near Milford, California. The lookout was constructed in 1934 and is a great example of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) architecture. The C-3-type lookout is si...
Amedee Hot Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully.
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