Rocky Point Springs
Rocky Point Springs is a warm seep at sea level in Marin County, about five miles from Bolinas. The temperature logged is a shade under body heat. Who owns the ground and whether you may visit are both unrecorded. Three hundred odd yards separate it from the nearest road, which is not named.
The elevation reads a few feet below sea level, so this is shoreline. Neither road name nor approach is described. Winters are wet and mild. Summers dry. Snow never figures. Haypress Campground, under five miles off, is the camping in the file. No land is on record, so nobody has said who owns the ground.
Midwinter is the time given. Warm water on a cold morning is pleasant enough and that is about the size of it. Nobody logged the access, so check before you go. Haypress, a bit under five miles out, is the only camping anyone has listed. Nothing was charged as far as the record shows, and the road goes unnamed, so bring a map.
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 Rocky Point 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 307 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 29% 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 Haypress Campground is nestled within the coastal scrub of Tennessee Valley, near Mill Valley. The hike to this campground is 1 mile from the Tennessee Valley Trail head parking lot, which means car or RV camping is not allowed. Typical Haypress campers enjoy hiking to Tennessee Cove, where they can admire the dramatic geology and colorful sand of this unique beach. Recreation Tennessee Valley and the Marin Headlands are noted for great hiking, and trails are often populated with hi...
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