Soboda Hot 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.
Soboda Hot Springs sits a few miles from San Jacinto in Riverside County, a roadside spring a couple hundred feet off Granite View Drive. The water runs at a comfortable soaking temperature. Who owns the ground is not recorded, and neither is public access, so the status of the spring is unknown from here.
Valley-edge country under two thousand feet, mild, with a light winter rainy season and a trace of snow in some years. Granite View Drive is the nearest road, and it is close. The record carries no land unit and gives no fee. Summer here runs warm by the annual average, and San Jacinto is near.
January heads the recommended months, with December and February close behind. Boulder Basin campground is about ten miles out. The water is a comfortable heat and poses no risk. Ownership is the thing to check; this is near town and nothing on record says it is open.
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 Soboda Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 527 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 38% 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 Black Mountain Road is is poor condition at this time. A four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle is recommended with a minimum ground clearance of 6 inches. Drive at your own risk. The San Bernardino National Forest is submitting a proposal to increase fees at various sites across the Forest and is seeking public input. Please visit the https://www.fs.usda.gov/sbnf for more information and to submit comments regarding this proposal.Boulder Basin Campground offers solitude and primitive camp...
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