Wall Creek Warm Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Wall Creek Warm Springs, in the Willamette National Forest nine miles from Oakridge, is a public soaking spring at bath temperature. Forest Service land, open access, a short walk from Forest Road 1931-243. The name undersells it; the water is warmer than most hot tubs. Lane County, in rain country.
The walk in is short, under half a mile off the forest road. This is wet country: nearly sixty inches of precipitation and nine-plus feet of snow most years, at a modest elevation. Packard Creek campground, about ten miles away, is the one the record lists. Willamette National Forest ground, no fee on file.
Winter is the record's pick for best months, with snow on the approach likely. Access is open and a short walk. The water is soaking warm as measured, no mixing needed. Packard Creek is the nearest campground on file, about ten miles off. No fee is recorded.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 562 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 22% 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.
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