Beulah 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.
Beulah Hot Springs, in Baker County, Oregon, is about fifty nine miles from Baker City. The water measured 140 degrees, hot enough to burn and right at the edge of scalding. A 1978 sample found a low mineral load. No owner is named and public access is not on file. Elevation was not logged. The USGS tracks the springs as a thermal site.
Leave the unnamed road and it is a tenth of a mile on foot to the springs. Winters bring something like forty inches of snow, and the yearly moisture is middling. Nearest camping listed is Chukar Park Campground, roughly ten miles off.
January tops the rankings, December and February close behind. The water will burn. Test it and find the cool spot before getting in. Ownership and access are unrecorded, so ask locally. The chemistry is nearly fifty years old. Chukar Park is the camping option.
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 Beulah Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 46 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 35% 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.
The water at Beulah Hot Springs contains 243 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Let the sounds of the babbling North Fork of the Malheur River lull you to sleep at one of the riverside campsites of Chukar Park Campground. This primitive facility offers 19 campsites, seven of which are situated along the shady, lush riparian vegetation. Popular as a base camp with birders, hunters and fishers as well as those venturing through along nearby highway 20, Chukar Park has campsites with partial shade and in full sun. Note that the high-standard, graded county road leading to t...
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