Hallinan 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.
Hallinan Spring is a hot spring in Lake County, twenty-three miles from Lakeview, with water a touch above comfortable soaking temperature. It is close enough to hot that you would want to check it with a hand first. The record names no owner and says nothing about access. No photo is on file.
It sits thirty-odd feet from a road that goes unnamed here, so the approach is a few steps and no more. No elevation is on file. Winter snow runs around four and a half feet. Outside of winter it is fairly dry. Lakeview is the nearest town of any size. Whose land it is, nobody has written down here.
Midwinter rates highest here. Camping: Drake Peak Lookout, about twenty miles. It runs hot enough that easing in slowly is the way. Access is unknown; treat the spot as possibly private until you see otherwise.
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 Hallinan Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 339 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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 6% 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.
Overview Located on the crest of the Warner Mountain Range at an elevation of 8,222 feet, Drake Peak Lookout hugs the wind-swept land surrounding it, offering unparalleled views into Oregon, California and Nevada. The lookout was built in 1948 and has served as a fire detection site for the surrounding area. Historically, Forest Service personnel lived long seasons in the cabin, scanning the region for lightning, flames, curls of smoke or any other indicator of possible forest fires. At one...
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