Spring (Hot)
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
This entry carries nothing more than the generic label Spring (Hot) and sits about four miles outside Baker City. No temperature reading is on file, so the name is the only hint at warmth. No owner or access status is recorded. Sunnyslope Road is the closest road. It is the sort of point that ended up on a map with a label and nothing else attached.
From Sunnyslope Road it is a couple tenths of a mile on foot, by the record. The elevation is around thirty-four hundred feet in Baker County. Snow runs a little under four feet a winter, and precipitation is about seventeen inches a year. No land unit or designation is given.
No best months are recorded. Two Color Guard Station, about 23 miles away, is the camping option listed. With no temperature, it is impossible to say whether the water is worth the walk. Check land status first, since ownership is blank, and treat the name as only a clue.
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 Spring (Hot).
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 162 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 20% 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 The Civilian Conservation Corps originally constructed the Two Color Guard Station in the 1930s for use as crew quarters and bunkhouse. The original building was removed in 1976. The current guard station was built in 1959. Two Color Guard Station is open June through October. Guests can drive to it except after significant snowfall, when it's only accessible by snowmobile. Guests staying in the later part of the season are encouraged to bring extra supplies to ensure a comfortable a...
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