Baker Soda Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Four miles or so from Lower Lake in Lake County, Baker Soda Spring runs tepid, warmer than a creek and cooler than a bath, and nothing in the record describes the water beyond that. Land ownership is unrecorded. So is public access. Either blank would be enough reason to make a call before driving out, and the record leaves both open.
Sky High Ridge Road is the closest road, a few hundred feet off, making the approach a short walk. The spring lies at roughly fourteen hundred feet. Lake County weather here is temperate, wet through the winter, with a few inches of snow most years. There is no land unit attached in the record, so the ground could be anything.
The months marked out here are December into February. Nothing nearby is listed for camping. Neither a fee nor an owner was recorded, and access is unknown, so assume nothing about who is welcome. A tepid spring in a wet winter amounts to a cool sit.
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 Baker Soda Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 368 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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 83% 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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