Yates Hot Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Yates Hot Springs is a soaking-warm spring in Kern County, about ten miles from Bodfish, at close to four thousand feet. The reading on file is right about where a hot bath runs. Nobody has recorded the access status, and no owner is on record, so the practical question of who lets you in is open. The file has no photo and no water chemistry. It is a thin record.
Thompson Canyon Avenue is the road the record names, a few hundred feet away, so reaching the spring is a short walk. The elevation is foothill height. Winters bring about two feet of snow across the season, with a low rain total, so the ground will be dry most of the year and the road may see snow in the cold months. Land ownership and designation are both blank.
December through February on the record. A short walk from Thompson Canyon Avenue. Hobo Campground, roughly ten miles off, is the camping the file gives. Nothing is on file for fees or water chemistry. The access status is blank too, so confirm you may be there before you drive out. Nothing about the temperature calls for caution.
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 Yates Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 66 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 28% 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 Hobo Campground is tucked on the banks of the Lower Kern River, north of the popular Miracle Hot Springs. It sits at 2290 feet elevation on the Sequoia National Forest in the Lower Kern Canyon. The close proximity to the Lower Kern River and the shade provided by the riparian forest make it an ideal summer escape from the heat. It has 23 individual tent only sites and an additional 10 sites across the campground. Recreation White water boating is popular on the Lower Kern and requi...
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