Dolans Hot 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.
Access is restricted at Dolans Hot Spring, which lies inside the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve in Monterey County. The reading on record is right at body heat, a gentle soak if you could get to it. The reserve is a state conservation area. Greenfield, the nearest town in our data, is about twenty five miles off.
Protected reserve land a bit over a thousand feet up. The nearest road gives out roughly seven tenths of a mile before the spring, so whatever approach exists is on foot. Rain is moderate, snow nil. Escondido Campground is the closest camping in our records, a few miles distant. Ownership is recorded under a catch-all other category.
Access is restricted, which settles most questions. Find out the reserve's visiting rules before you make any plans. The listed months are the dead of winter. The walk from the nearest road is under a mile. Escondido Campground is where to camp if you are in the area. No fee on 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 Dolans Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 519 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from north to south, 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 53% 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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