Pardon Warm 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.
Pardon Warm Spring is a tepid roadside spring in Lake County, far out from anywhere; Lakeview, the nearest town listed, is nearly sixty miles away. The water is only a little above cool, the sort of warm a hand notices more than a body does. Nothing on file says whose land this is or if you may enter.
High desert, a bit above four thousand feet, with snow in the three-foot range most winters and fifteen inches of precipitation a year. The spring is eighty yards from an unnamed road. Fremont Point Cabin sits under five miles away and is the closest listed place to stay. Beyond that, the record says nothing about the ground or the approach.
Winter months score best in the record, though water this cool is not much of a draw in any season. Roadside access. Verify the ownership question before you walk over, since the record has nothing on it. No fee listed. Fremont Point Cabin is the nearby overnight option.
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 Pardon Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 86 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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 62% 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.
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...