Wrenden Hot Sprs, Elsinore Hot Sprs
The record carries two names here, Wrenden Hot Springs and Elsinore Hot Springs, for a hot spring in Riverside County barely a mile from Lake Elsinore. The water is hot, past the point most people find comfortable for a soak. Nothing is recorded about public access or land ownership, so check before you go looking. Which of the two names people use locally is not something the file tells you.
East Franklin Street, a city street, is the road on file, under a hundred feet away, which makes it a roadside spot close to town at low elevation, around thirteen hundred feet. Snow does not fall here. Rain is light, about a foot a year. The record has nothing on land ownership or designation.
The months on file are the cold ones, December through February. Roadside, no walk. Wildomar Campground, about six miles out, is the closest camping on file. The water runs hot enough to warrant a hand test before you step in, and go slowly. Nothing is entered for fee or chemistry, and no access is on record too.
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 Wrenden Hot Sprs, Elsinore Hot Sprs.
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 south.
- Highest ground nearby
- 110 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 33% 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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11 sites available. Wildomar Campground is currently closed due to the Wildomar Fire until further notice.
Wrenden Hot Sprs, Elsinore Hot Sprs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key. Bring sun protection for exposed soaking.
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