Oregon Hot Springs (Big Hot 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.
Oregon Hot Springs, also on file as Big Hot Spring, is a scalding source with Tulelake as its nearest town and no measurable distance between them; the record places it in Siskiyou County. The water will burn, above 140 degrees, so it is not a soaking spot as recorded. Owner and access fields are empty.
Fifty yards or so off a road the record never names, which makes this roadside in the plain sense. Elevation tops four thousand feet. Moderate snow, and under twenty inches of precipitation across the year. No campground falls within range, and nobody is named as managing the land.
Winter ranks as the best season on record. Anything this hot will scald skin; do not test it with a hand. With access unrecorded and the spring so close to town, assume private ground until you learn otherwise. No fee and no camping are listed.
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 Oregon Hot Springs (Big Hot Spring).
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 19 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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 7% 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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