Springs
Can you soak at Springs?
The water leaves the ground at 75°F, about as warm as a heated pool. It's a short walk from the road. It's on Bureau of Land Management land. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
BLM ground about fifteen miles from Mammoth Lakes, in Mono County, where a set of springs listed only as Springs comes up tepid, mid seventies. The Bishop Field Office manages the land and access is open, so you can walk to it without asking anyone. The water is too cool for most people to call a soak.
Roughly 350 yards to the nearest road, and that road has no recorded name. Near seven thousand feet, so high country. Six feet of snow comes down in an ordinary winter. The yearly mean stays below fifty, and precipitation comes to only fourteen inches.
The record favors the dead of winter, February first of all, though six feet of snow will shape how you get there. Crowley Lake Campground is about ten miles away. No fee is recorded. Tepid water carries no burn risk, but at mid seventies it will feel cold in a winter wind.
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 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 27 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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 72% 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 Crowley Lake Campground offers 47 RV/tent sites, maximum recommended RV length is 30 feet. All sites include a fire pit, picnic table and a lantern holder. No hook-up. Potable water is available. Dump station fee is $10.00, no passes accepted. Closest amenities are 2 miles south in Crowley, or 10 miles north in Mammoth Lakes. Recreation Popular activities include lake and stream fishing, boating, windsurfing, horseback riding, hiking, and wildlife viewing. Facilities Crowley Lake...
Springs sits at 6,933 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 28% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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