Pseudo Complexion Spring
Warm water on Bureau of Land Management ground in Lake County, with the Ukiah Field Office in charge and the public allowed in. Pseudo Complexion Spring is the name. Clearlake Oaks lies about fifteen miles off, the closest town. Warm is as far as the temperature goes. The approach is a walk of about three quarters of a mile, starting from a road nobody has named.
Public land, short approach. The BLM's Ukiah office manages this stretch of Lake County, which gets a wet winter and some snow most years. No elevation is given for this spring. No fee is recorded either, and there is a photo on record, which is useful for knowing what you are walking toward.
Come in winter. Little Stony campground is the nearest on record, about seven miles off. Open access on public land, no fee listed. The temperature is mild enough that there is no burn risk. Expect the walk in to be under a mile each way, and allow for wet ground in the season the record recommends.
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 Pseudo Complexion 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.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 265 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 93% 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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Overview This location is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Visitors are required to physically arrive at the campground to purchase and claim a site.Once on-site, you are able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature.In order to utilize Scan & Pay on site, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some remote area...
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