Warm 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.
A mile from Lakeview, in Lake County, Warm Springs comes out tepid, in the low seventies, on land the Bureau of Land Management's Applegate Field Office manages. Public access is open. It is a USGS listed thermal point with a measured temperature, which sets it apart from the many unmeasured entries in this part of the country. Cool for a soak by most standards.
A little under a mile on foot from a road with no name attached, over BLM ground at roughly five and a half thousand feet. Winter here is heavy. Five feet of snow lands in an average season, and the yearly moisture comes in moderate. Count on the approach staying buried well into spring.
December through February score best, which fits a spring this close to town. Open access, no fee on file, no camping listed. The tepid reading is the thing to know before you go. In the warm months this is a cool pool, in winter it may feel like something.
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 Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 6 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 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.
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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Warm Springs sits at 5,525 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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