Sand Spring
The record places this Sand Spring in Inyo County, about ten miles from Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek. The water is only a little warm, low seventies, about swimming pool warm. No owner and no access information are on file.
Roadside, about two hundred feet off a road the record doesn't name, at 5,500 feet. Snow runs two feet a winter, and the year brings eight inches of precipitation. Dry high ground. The record carries no water chemistry for it.
The coldest months get the nod on file, though water this cool in winter is more a footbath than a soak. No campground or fee on record, and access status is blank. USGS measured the temperature; the date is not given.
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 Sand 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
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 189 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 36% 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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Sand Spring sits at 5,500 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 22% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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