Warm 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.
The other Warm Springs in Harney County lies in the Ochoco National Forest, about 39 miles from Hines, and it is open to the public on Forest Service ground. The water is warm, low eighties, nowhere near a hot soak. It sits high, over 5,300 feet, which puts it in real snow country for the winter. Delintment Lake Campground is about four miles away.
Six tenths of a mile on foot, a short walk, from a road that goes unnamed in the listing. US Forest Service land in the Ochoco National Forest. Winters at this elevation bring close to six feet of snow, and around twenty inches of precipitation falls in a year, which makes winter access a real question.
December, January and February are the best months on file. Snow at this elevation runs deep, so ask the Forest Service about road conditions in those months. Open access, no fee recorded. Camp at Delintment Lake. No chemistry on file. The water is warm and stays well short of hot.
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 Warm Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 85 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 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.
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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Overview Delintment Lake Campground provides a wide variety of recreation facilities and activities for the whole family. The campground has 29 campsites, a group camping area, a natural non-motorized boat launch, beach area, fishing pier, and 12 picnic sites. Hike the trail along the banks or fish from the dam or pier.The two loop campground offers camping sites near the shore as well as higher on the bank. The road access is paved up to the campground from Burns, Oregon. Please pack out...
Warm Springs sits at 5,341 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 21% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Warm Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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