Sulphur 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.
Sulphur Springs, Monterey County, ten miles from King City and a few paces from Lonoak Road. Tepid, low seventies. The landowner is not identified on the record and public access is not established. Those two blanks matter more than the temperature here.
Seventy-odd feet from Lonoak Road, so roadside in every sense. About eight hundred feet up. Dry country, a dozen inches of rain most years. It never snows. Low sixties on average.
Best months on file run December through February. Pinnacles Campground is the nearest listed, about sixteen miles. Nothing to fear from the water temperature, and against a low-sixties yearly average the low-seventies water will feel mild. The record holds no second name and no water chemistry. Confirm the land is open before you step off the road; nothing on the record says it is.
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 Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 82 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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 34% 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.
Overview Pinnacles Campground is located in the unique Pinnacles National Park, 32 miles south of Hollister, California. The park encompasses 26,000 acres of spectacular rock formations and remnants of an extinct 23 million-year old volcano. Hiking and rock climbing are very popular activities in Pinnacles, as is watching for the majestic California condor overhead. Pinnacles National Park is a nesting place for the endangered soaring bird, the largest in North America.Recreation Pinnacles N...
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