Little Geysers
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Boiling water in Lake County: Little Geysers lies about five miles from Cobb, and the temperature on file is roughly that of a kettle at full roll. It is listed as a single thermal point despite the plural name. This is not a soak by any stretch. Land owner and access status are blank, and there is no photograph.
The nearest road is Dillingham Road, five hundred-odd feet off. Elevation is around 2,700 feet in a climate with plenty of rain and almost no snow. No land unit is on record. Warm Springs Rec Area is what the record lists for camping, about fourteen miles away, and nothing names an owner for the ground itself.
Winter tops the ranking and snow is not a factor. Boiling water and whatever steam comes with it will injure you; stay well back from the vents. Warm Springs Rec Area is the camping on file. Access status is unrecorded, so find out who controls the ground before you go.
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 Little Geysers.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 53 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 98% 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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