Warm Springs Canyon Warm 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.
A warm seep in Warm Springs Canyon, Benton County, Washington, sixteen or so miles from Finley. Tepid water, low seventies on file. No owner is recorded and no access status. The climate record is the dry kind, a dozen inches of precipitation and almost no snow.
A little under half a mile from a road the record leaves unnamed. Low elevation, a bit over five hundred feet. Mild average temperature, under a foot of precipitation a year, snow barely registering. Ownership blank, and no land unit or designation appears in the record either. The canyon name is the only landscape clue the record gives.
Nobody is listed as owning this ground and nothing says who may visit, so start there. Camping means Charbonneau Park and Campground, sixteen miles out. Winter is the season the record picks, and almost no snow falls, so getting there is easy. The water is tepid. No hot pool waits at the end of it.
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 Canyon Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 287 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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 1% 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.
Overview Charbonneau Park in Eastern Washington was named one of America's Top 100 Family Campgrounds. It is located on Lake Sacajawea, formed by Ice Harbor Lock and Dam on the Lower Snake River. The park was named for Toussaint Charbonneau, an interpreter for Lewis and Clark and husband of Sacajawea, the famous Shoshone interpreter on the Corps of Discovery. The park provides excellent recreational opportunities for boaters, campers, upland and waterfowl hunters and anglers. Recreatio...
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