Radium Hot Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Radium Hot Springs in Baker County, Oregon, is a hot spring about twelve miles from Baker City. The water on file is hot, above comfortable soaking and short of scalding. It shares a name with the much better known Radium Hot Springs in British Columbia, and the only encyclopedia link on file is for that Canadian village, so don't confuse the two. Who owns this one, and whether you can visit, is not recorded.
Less than half a mile separates the spring from the La Grande-Baker Highway, the closest road, so it is a short walk. It sits at a little over three thousand feet. Winters here drop around six feet of snow and the year is wetter than the Oregon desert to the south, with about two feet of precipitation. No landowner or land unit is listed.
Winter months are flagged as best on file. The water is hot enough that you should test it before getting in, though it is short of the scalding range. Anthony Lake Guard Station, roughly fifteen miles away, is the camping option on record. Access status is blank, so confirm the land is open before walking in from the highway.
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 Radium Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 12 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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 14% 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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Overview Anthony Lake forms the source of Anthony Creek, named for William 'Doc' Anthony, an ambitious homesteader who came to Baker County in 1864. He was a farmer and a doctor, collected tolls on the Dealy Wagon Road for a time, and ran his ranch until he died in 1914 at age 85. Anthony Lake Guard Station is a historic Civilian Conservation Corps log cabin built in the 1930s - one of only a few Forest Service cabins built of logs. For questions for Anthony Lake, Grande Ronde Lake, Mud Lake,...
Radium Hot Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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