Pine Cone 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.
Pine Cone Spring runs warm near Cobb in Lake County, about two miles from town. The water is tepid, on the cool side of warm. It sits close to a road, under two hundred feet, though the road goes unnamed in the record. Nothing on file says who owns the ground, and public access is not recorded either, so the spring's status is unsettled.
Hill country at a couple thousand feet. This part of Lake County gets a proper wet winter, around thirty inches of rain in an average year, with a little snow mixed in. You stop on an unnamed road and you are there. The land unit is missing and so is the access status.
The record favors midwinter, which is also the wet season here. The closest camping on file is Warm Springs Rec Area, nearly nineteen miles away. Since no access status or owner is recorded, ask before you walk in. The water is too cool to need a temperature warning.
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 Pine Cone Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the south.
- Highest ground nearby
- 323 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 92% 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.
Overview Warm Springs Recreation Area is a day-use park located at Lake Sonoma, which is just a 45 minute drive north of Santa Rosa and a 2 hour trip from San Francisco. There is no overnight camping available at this facility World famous vineyards and a land rich in history surround the lake, where visitors enjoy boating, fishing and exploring the area's extensive trail network.Recreation The Woodland Ridge Nature Trail begins at the park and winds up the ridge, rewarding hikers with great...
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