Fouts 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.
Open to the public and a short walk off Champagne Road, Fouts Springs is a warm spring in Mendocino National Forest. Lucerne is the closest town on record, about twenty miles out. The water is warm, a good deal short of a hot soak. Mill Creek campground is under a mile off, so staying the night is simple.
National forest land; our data does not list an elevation. The spring is about a tenth of a mile from Champagne Road. Rain is decent, with a bit over a foot of snow in winter. Mill Creek campground in Mendocino National Forest is the nearest, on the same Forest Service ground.
The listed season is winter, and a bit of snow falls then. Access is open, Forest Service land, a very short walk. Camp at Mill Creek. No fee is recorded. The temperature on record is warm, well under bath heat, so do not drive out expecting a hot soak.
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 Fouts Springs.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 209 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 96% 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.
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 are...
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