Soda Spring In Cache Formation
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Soda Spring In Cache Formation is a tepid spring on ground managed by the BLM's Ukiah Field Office, a few miles from Clearlake in Lake County, with open access. Barely warm water, well short of anything you would sit in. Reaching it means walking a bit under a mile from an unnamed road. No fee is recorded.
Lake County hills at around fifteen hundred feet, wet in winter, a light snow most years. Public land with no fee recorded. The name ties it to the Cache Formation, and that is the only hint on file about the ground it comes out of. No designation beyond public land is recorded.
The best time on record is the winter. Little Stony is the campground listed, and at over twenty miles it is no quick hop. BLM land, open, no fee. The temperature is too low for a burn risk; if anything you will find it cool.
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 Soda Spring In Cache Formation.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 302 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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 87% 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 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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