Sulphur Hot Spring
Sulphur Hot Spring is on the Monterey coast, a mile and change from Seaside, barely above sea level. The water comes out at soaking temperature, close to a hundred degrees. It sits three feet from a road by the mapping, beside it in the plainest sense. Nothing in the record says who owns it or if the public is allowed in, and for a spot this close to a town that question comes first.
Coastal and low, with a cool even climate. No snow. Moderate winter rain. It sits at the pavement edge; the road is not named in our data. The land columns are empty for manager and for unit. No campground appears in the record within a useful range of this point.
Listed best months are the winter ones, though on this coast the weather barely changes between seasons. Roadside. There is no camping on file for this spot. Access is unrecorded. So are fee and ownership. Expect to do your own homework on the legal side before planning a soak here.
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 Sulphur Hot 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
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 57 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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 43% 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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