Unnamed Thermal Spring
An unnamed thermal point in Los Angeles County, about a mile from Palos Verdes Estates. The water is tepid, upper seventies. It sits within a few steps of a road. No owner or access status is on record, and for a point a mile from town that is the first thing to sort out. the record has a photo attached, which is more than most of the unnamed points in the state can claim.
Coastal low ground at around 130 feet, mild year round and dry, with no snow. Roadside, eighteen feet from the pavement by the mapping, so you could park and look at it. No manager or designation in the record. No campground is recorded anywhere near it.
Best months are listed as winter, though this coast is mild enough to visit any time. Roadside. No camping or fee recorded, and no access status. The water is only tepid. Make sure you have a right to be there first; No ownership is on record.
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
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 193 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 21% 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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