Hildebrande 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.
A tepid spring in Lake County, Hildebrande sits roughly five miles from Soda Bay and only a short way off the road. No owner is on record, and there is nothing on access either. The water lands at the cool end of warm. What it comes out of goes unmentioned.
The nearest road goes unnamed in the record, and the spring is under three hundred feet from it. Modest elevation, wet winters near twenty-eight inches, a bit of snow. For camping, Warm Springs Rec Area is around nineteen miles off. Roadside is the access class, which means you can see it from the car.
Winter is the season on file. Find out who owns the ground first; the record is blank on that. Fees and chemistry are not recorded, and the only campground listed is a long drive. The water will feel lukewarm at best.
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 Hildebrande Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 151 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 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 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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