The Hot Springs
An entry named The Hot Springs sits two miles out of Bridgeport in Mono County. The water is hot, 113 degrees, at the edge of what most people can sit in for long. The land has no owner on file. Access is unstated. Even the elevation is not recorded.
Less than six hundred feet to a road without a recorded name. Cold country: the annual average hovers in the upper forties and winters bring nearly eight feet of snow, on eighteen inches of total precipitation.
Winter ranks best on record. Honeymoon Flat campground lies roughly six miles off. No fee is listed. At this heat the water can burn with time; ease in and get out if your skin reddens. The snow total means winter access on foot may be a slog. Land ownership isn't on file, so access is a question you have to answer locally.
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 The 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.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 137 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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 85% 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 Honeymoon Flat Campground is located just 8 miles from Bridgeport, California, next to Robinson Creek at an elevation of 7,000 feet. The Twin Lakes area is about 2 miles away, where visitors enjoy boating, fishing, hiking and horseback riding.Recreation Robinson Creek offers good rainbow trout fishing and can be easily accessed from both loops. Numerous hiking trails are in the vicinity, including the popular Robinson Creek Trail.Facilities The campground contains single and double-f...
The Hot Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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