Napa Vichy 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.
Napa Vichy Springs sits beside Monticello Road a few miles outside the city of Napa. Lukewarm is the word for the water here, comfortable to the hand and well short of bath temperature. The USGS logs it as a monitoring site. Whether the public can visit is not on record, and nothing in the file names an owner, so assume it could be on private ground until you learn otherwise.
This is low hill country on the edge of town, a few hundred feet up. The spring is a stone's throw from the road; the record puts it about a hundred and twenty feet from Monticello Road. Winters here are wet and mild without snow, and summers dry out. Nothing describes the ground around the outlet, and there is no land unit or designation attached.
December through February is the listed window. The water is lukewarm, so plan on something closer to a cool bath than a soak. Roadside, though ownership is not recorded; look for signs and ask around. The closest camping listed is Oak Shores, a day use area about fifteen miles away, and the name says day use only. No fee is recorded.
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 Napa Vichy Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 42 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 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.
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