Jones Fountain Of Life Spring
Jones Fountain Of Life Spring comes out scalding in Lake County about eleven miles from Clearlake, right beside a road. Whatever the name suggests, the water is too hot to touch. Nobody is on file as owner, and access goes unrecorded. The USGS sampled it as recently as 2015.
Roadside, about two hundred feet from a road, unnamed in the record. The elevation is low, around seventeen hundred feet, with a wet-ish winter, twenty-odd inches of precipitation, and hardly any snow. Little Stony campground is nineteen miles off.
Best months on record run December through February. Do not put a hand in. Water this hot scalds at once. Ownership and access are both unknown, which for a roadside source means you may be standing on somebody's property the moment you leave the shoulder. The record has a picture of it. No fee shows.
The USGS maintains a numbered monitoring site here and took a pH reading in November 2015, the only chemistry on file for the spring.
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 Jones Fountain Of Life 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 371 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at Jones Fountain Of Life Spring is slightly acidic (pH 6.7).
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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 area...
Jones Fountain Of Life Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully.
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