Howard 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.
Howard Springs lies in Lake County about three miles from Cobb, close to the road, with water at the hot end of soaking range. Nobody is listed as landowner and access status is blank on record. The record holds a temperature, a road distance, a climate profile and a campground. It says nothing about pools or condition.
Under two hundred feet from an unnamed road, so effectively roadside. Low elevation, a little over two thousand feet, in a part of California that sees a wet winter, around thirty inches of rain, and almost no snow. The only campground on record, Warm Springs Rec Area, is twenty miles away, so camping is a separate trip.
Midwinter is the season on record. Linger and this water will burn you, so test it with a hand first. Access is unknown: no owner and no status on record. Cobb is close enough to ask around. The record has no photo and no chemistry. Fee unknown.
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 Howard Springs.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 168 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 94% 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 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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