Unnamed Thermal Spring
About a dozen miles from Alturas, an unnamed thermal point sits a few hundred feet off California Pines Boulevard in Modoc County. Water temperature on record is 81 degrees, lukewarm. Nobody has recorded an owner for the ground or a public access status. No campground is listed within reach, and no photograph exists on file.
California Pines Boulevard is the road on record, with the spring under five hundred feet from it, a short walk. Elevation is about forty-five hundred feet. Snow averages four feet each winter and the yearly precipitation total is around nineteen inches, a dry climate with cold winters and a mean temperature near fifty.
The three coldest months are the ones on record. Expect snow on the approach. There is no campground on file, so plan to day-trip or camp elsewhere. Ownership and access are unknown; ask locally. No fee recorded. Eighty-one degrees feels warm on a freezing day and little else.
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