Kahneeta Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Kahneeta Hot Springs is on the Warm Springs Reservation in Jefferson County, eight or so miles from the town of Warm Springs. The ground is tribal land, and no one has recorded a public access status. The water is hot, past comfortable soaking for most people. USGS tracks a site here. No photo has made it onto the record.
Agency Hot Springs Road passes within about twenty feet, so it is roadside. Elevation is low, under fifteen hundred feet, and most winters deliver something like two feet of snow, with moderate rain. The reservation is the land unit, and the designation is tribal land. The land owner appears on the record as DESG.
Winter gets the nod on the record. Trout Creek Campground is about six miles away. Ease in carefully; the temperature is past most people's comfort. Because this is tribal land with access unknown, check with the reservation before visiting.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 474 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 23% 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.
Featuring a boat launch, a seasonal ranger station and trailhead, Trout Creek campground offers 21 campsites and three group-use campsites along the Lower Deschutes Wild and Scenic River. Some pull-through campsites as well as day-use parking are available in the recreation site. Access to the 7-mile Trout Creek Trail and Trout Creek Climbing Area originate at the south end of the campground.Know Before You Go:The campground is open year round but no potable water is available.Cell phone serv...
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