White Rock Ranch Hot Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
White Rock Ranch Hot Spring carries the words hot spring in its name and a recorded temperature of 71 degrees, which is tepid, cooler than most swimming pools. It lies in Lake County, nine miles from Lakeview, right beside a road. Ranch is in the name and no owner or access status is filed, so it may well be private. Nothing on record describes a pool.
Roadside in the most literal sense: the record puts it thirteen feet from the nearest road, which goes unnamed. Elevation is not recorded. The climate is moderately wet for the region, around twenty inches a year, with heavy winter snow, close to seven feet. Aspen Cabin in the Fremont-Winema National Forest is the nearest camping on file, about seven miles out.
The record favors winter, though seven feet of snow will shape what winter access looks like. Settle the ownership question before stopping; the record is silent on it and the name points to a ranch. Aspen Cabin is the listed camping. There is no water chemistry on file. At seventy-one degrees the water is tepid, so expect a cool dip.
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 White Rock Ranch Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 51 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 76% 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 Historic Aspen Cabin is nestled in a forest of fir, pine, and aspen, and provides an ideal setting for guests seeking relaxation and recreation in the Fremont-Winema National Forest. It was built in 1930 and originally used as an administrative cabin and fire guard station by U.S. Forest Service employees. It also served as a warming shelter for snowmobilers and cross-country skiers during the 1990s. Today, the cabin offers guests a secluded getaway in a landscape abundant with wil...
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