Klamath Hot 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.
Far too hot to enter, Klamath Hot Spring sits beside a road in Siskiyou County about 24 miles from Montague. The road has no name in the record. Land owner is blank. So is access. No photo, and no chemistry on record, so the temperature is the one hard fact about the water itself.
Ninety feet from the roadside, at a modest elevation in country that gets moderate snow and modest rain. Juanita Lake Campground is eleven or twelve miles away. Nothing in the record tells you whose ground this is. No land unit either. You are looking at a point on a map with a scalding temperature attached.
Winter months score best on file. Do not get in. At this temperature the water burns skin on contact. Keep pets leashed near it. Camping, per the record, means Juanita Lake. Land status is unknown, so approach from the road with that in mind.
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 Klamath Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 349 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 37% 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 Juanita Lake campground offers 23 campsites adjacent to Juanita Lake on the Klamath National Forest. The lake offers a unique combination of recreation opportunities including many water-based activities like fishing and swimming. Site map located in photo stream above. Currently, there is non-potable water available for use. Recreation The 55 acre Juanita Lake is excellent for small rowboats, rafts, and canoes. There is a paved boat launch ramp, a dock in the summer, and fish cleani...
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