Unnamed Thermal Spring
The record places an unnamed thermal point four miles from Soda Bay in Lake County, classing it as warm without giving a measured temperature. So there is no number to go on, and no way to say if it is soakable. Ownership and public access are also unrecorded. One photograph exists on file, which is the one sign anyone has been there.
A tenth of a mile on foot gets you there, starting from an unnamed road. Low ground, around thirteen hundred feet. Precipitation comes to roughly two feet in a year and snow almost never falls. No land unit is recorded, and no designation has been attached.
No best months are on file, and with no temperature reading there is no season to recommend. The closest campground listed is Warm Springs Rec Area, a little over twenty-two miles away. Before going, confirm the landowner and that visitors are welcome; neither is recorded. Bring a thermometer if you want to know what you are looking at.
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 this 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
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 357 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 98% 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.
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Overview Warm Springs Recreation Area is a day-use park located at Lake Sonoma, which is just a 45 minute drive north of Santa Rosa and a 2 hour trip from San Francisco. There is no overnight camping available at this facility World famous vineyards and a land rich in history surround the lake, where visitors enjoy boating, fishing and exploring the area's extensive trail network.Recreation The Woodland Ridge Nature Trail begins at the park and winds up the ridge, rewarding hikers with great...
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