Anderson 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.
Anderson Springs sits a hundred feet off Hot Springs Road in Lake County, California, about four miles from Cobb. The water on record is hot, right at the top of comfortable soaking temperature. Who owns the ground and what the public may do there are not in the record, which for a spring this close to a road called Hot Springs Road is the question to answer first.
Hot Springs Road is the access, about seventeen hundred feet up in Lake County. This is a wet spot, thirty-two inches of rain in an average year, with only a trace of snow. Owner and designation are both unrecorded, and the road name is the only hint the record gives about what is around the spring. Warm Springs Rec Area, sixteen miles out, is the campground on file.
Winter months rate highest and snow is not a factor. Camp at Warm Springs Rec Area if you need to, a good drive away. The water is at the hot end of soakable. Access is unrecorded; check before you go. No fee appears in the record.
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 Anderson Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the south.
- Highest ground nearby
- 289 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 3 times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 98% 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 Warm Springs Recreation Area is a day-use park located at Lake Sonoma, which is just a 45 minute drive north of Santa Rosa and a 2 hour trip from San Francisco. There is no overnight camping available at this facility World famous vineyards and a land rich in history surround the lake, where visitors enjoy boating, fishing and exploring the area's extensive trail network.Recreation The Woodland Ridge Nature Trail begins at the park and winds up the ridge, rewarding hikers with great...
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