Highland Springs
Highland Springs sits inside Highland Springs Recreation Area, a Lake County park about five miles from Kelseyville, and the water is warm, nothing like hot. The county owns it and access is open. The recreation area is the land unit on file, flagged as a local recreation site.
Well under a tenth-mile from a nameless road inside the county recreation area, at modest elevation. Rain runs near thirty inches a year; snow is a rarity, a few inches. The listed campground is Warm Springs Rec Area, sixteen miles or so.
Open county land, winter months listed as best. Check the recreation area's hours. The record shows no fee for the spring. The temperature sits below what most people call a hot soak, so think of it as warm water to wade in, if wading is allowed. Chemistry is not on file, and neither is a sample date for the temperature.
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 Highland 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.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 142 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 68% 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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