Paraiso Springs (Sulphur 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.
Paraiso Springs, listed here as its Sulphur Spring, is a thermal spring about eight miles from Soledad in Monterey County. The water is close to body temperature, a comfortable soak on a cool day. The name says sulphur; the record holds no chemistry sample to confirm it. Neither ownership nor access appears in the file.
The spring is roadside, less than a hundred feet from the road, though no road name is given. Elevation is around a thousand feet, foothill country. Rain is modest and falls in winter; snow is not a factor. No land unit and designation is on record. The outlet itself goes undescribed.
The three winter months are the ones on file. Arroyo Seco shows up as the closest campground, nine miles or so. With no access status on file and no owner named, treat this as private until you can confirm otherwise. No fee is recorded. The water will feel like a warm bath, nothing hotter.
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 Paraiso Springs (Sulphur Spring).
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 527 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 40% 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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