Howard Holiday
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Howard Holiday is a warm spring four miles from Klamath Falls in Klamath County, tracked by USGS. The water is tepid, warmer than a lake in summer and nothing like a hot soak. The record has no owner or access status, so permission to visit is unclear. Unphotographed, as far as the record goes.
Green Springs Drive is about five hundred feet off, a short walk. Slightly above four thousand feet, and winters stack up four and a half feet or so of snow, with moderate rain across the year. No land unit shows up. Klamath Falls is the supply point, and at four miles it is the closest town to any spring in this part of the county that the record lists.
The cold months are where the record puts the best visits. Topsy Campground is listed about twelve miles away. Winter visiting here means snow likely on Green Springs Drive. Nothing about access is on file, and being this near town, look for posting. No temperature caution needed.
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 Howard Holiday.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 63 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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 15% 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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