Lost Cabin 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.
Lost Cabin Spring is a barely warm spring on Bureau of Land Management ground in Lake County, Oregon, a long way out from Lakeview, something over fifty miles. The water comes out cooler than body heat. Nobody is going to soak here, and the draw, if there is one, is that it sits right beside a road with public access listed as open.
This is high desert a little above four thousand feet, managed by the Lakeview Field Office. A road runs within a few steps of the spring, close enough to see it from the driver's seat, though the record does not say which road. Winters bring under three feet of snow in a typical year. The rest of the time it is dry country.
December through February are the months flagged as best, which fits a spring whose water is only lukewarm. No walking involved, since it is roadside. Fremont Point Cabin is the closest camping on file, about eleven miles off. The land is public and open, so the main thing to check is whether the road is passable after snow.
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 Lost Cabin Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 16 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 64% 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...
Lost Cabin Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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