Union Station 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.
Union Station Hot Springs sits beside Hot Lake-Union Road a couple of miles outside the town of Union, in Union County. The record flags it as hot but gives no measured temperature, so do not take it as soakable on the strength of the name. Ownership and access go unrecorded as well. It is a thermal point on the map more than a destination as recorded.
Fifty-odd yards separate the spring from Hot Lake-Union Road, at around 2,700 feet in Union County. Winters here are snowy, over six feet in an average year, with precipitation near thirty inches. Moss Springs Campground, about twelve miles away, is the only campground listed. No land manager appears on file.
No best months are recorded, and no temperature, so treat this as unknown on both counts. Roadside access. Before stopping, find out who owns the ground; that is blank on file. No fee is listed. Moss Springs is the overnight option on file.
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 Union Station Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 173 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 4% 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.
Located above Cove, Oregon, the Moss Springs Campground lies on a ridgeline within view of the Eagle Cap Wilderness and is next to Moss Springs Trailhead. This popular campground was constructed to accommodate visitors with packstock, riding stock and campers bound for the wilderness. The site also has 3 accessible campsites and toilets. Trails from the campground drop steeply into the Minam River drainage or follow Grande Ronde Ridge.
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