Warm 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.
Mono County's Warm Spring sits about six miles from Bridgeport at nearly 7,700 feet. The USGS sampled it in the fall of 2011 and logged 77 degrees, tepid. No owner or access note is on record, and no second name has attached itself to it. Bridgeport is as close as towns get here, per the record, and a USGS site number is the spring's only other identity.
A walk of a few hundred yards from an unnamed road. This is cold country: average temperature in the low forties and close to six feet of snow each winter, with summers short and dry. Crags Campground, some ten miles distant, is the nearest on file. Nothing on file describes the ground around the outlet.
The record lists the three winter months as best. Those are deep-snow months at this elevation, so a winter visit means snow travel. No fee recorded. Access unknown. The temperature reading is from a 2011 sample, recent as these things go. Tepid water at this altitude is something to look 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 Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 271 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 Crags Campground is located just 10 miles from Bridgeport, California, at an elevation of 7,000 feet. The Twin Lakes area is close by, offering boating, fishing, hiking and horseback riding opportunities.Recreation Robinson Creek offers good rainbow trout fishing and can be easily accessed from within the campground. Numerous hiking trails are in the vicinity, including the popular Robinson Creek Trail.Facilities The campground contains one group site that can accommodate up to 45 pe...
Warm Spring sits at 7,696 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 31% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Warm Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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