Bartlett 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.
The water at Bartlett Springs comes out scalding, hot enough to burn skin on contact, which settles the soaking question before it starts. The spring is in Lake County about nine miles from Lucerne. No owner is listed; access status, also blank. Elevation is not on file either. What the record does hold is a temperature and a rough road distance.
The record leaves the road unnamed but puts it a short walk off, about three hundred fifty feet. Winter rain runs past thirty inches and snow to around twenty, so the approach can be wet or white depending on the month. No managing unit is given, and nothing says who looks after the ground.
Midwinter is what the record puts forward for timing. Letts Lake Campground, eight miles or so away, is the nearest place to sleep that turns up. Heat is the thing to watch. Water this hot will scald, so do not touch it where it surfaces or anywhere it runs off. Ownership and access both want checking before you go.
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 Bartlett Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 324 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from west to east, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 2½ 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.
Overview This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site.Once on-site, you are able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature.In order to utilize Scan & Pay on site, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote area...
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