Unnamed Thermal 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.
Barely a mile from Clearlake in Lake County, beside Panorama Road, is an unnamed thermal point. The record tags it warm but holds no measured temperature, and without one there is no saying from the page if it is fit to sit in. Land ownership is blank, and so is any access status. Being a mile from a town, it is the kind of point worth asking about locally before assuming anything.
This is a roadside spot, under 250 feet from Panorama Road, at about fifteen hundred feet of elevation. The climate is mild, averaging around sixty degrees across the year, with roughly two dozen inches of precipitation and a dusting of snow in most winters. No land unit or manager is recorded.
There are no best months on record and no temperature to plan around. Little Stony is the campground listed, nearly twenty-four miles off. Since ownership is blank, assume nothing about the right to stop here until you have checked. Proximity to a road says nothing about it being public. No fee on file.
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.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 244 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 3 times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 99% 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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