Buckhorn Creek 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.
Buckhorn Creek Springs is a USGS-listed thermal point in Lake County, Oregon, a long way from anywhere, nearly sixty miles from Lakeview. The water is barely warm, below body temperature, so nobody is soaking here. It exists in the record as a measured warm spring with a site number. Land owner and access are both unrecorded, and there is no second name from any other source.
Reckon on about a third of a mile from the closest road, one the record leaves unnamed. High desert, dry, with light snow. The closest camping on file is the Fremont Point Cabin, about ten miles away, and that is the only campground the record associates with it.
The file lists winter as the best time, and with light snowfall that is plausible for getting in. The water will not warm you. No access status is recorded and no owner, so treat it as unverified ground until you learn otherwise. The temperature comes from a USGS survey with no date attached and may not match what is there today. Nothing is recorded about a pool or any structure.
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 Buckhorn Creek Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 16 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 73% 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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Overview Fremont Point Cabin is located on top of the Winter Rim in North Central Lake County, Oregon. The newly constructed cabin, which was completed in the summer of 2015, sits on the same footprint as its predecessor, which was destroyed during a forest fire in 2002. Through numerous donations of funding, materials, and volunteer labor, the cabin has been rebuilt and is now ready for you to enjoy. While the cabin is available year-round, off season access may be limited to foot or snowmob...
Buckhorn Creek Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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