Swim Warm Springs
Swim Warm Springs is a lukewarm spring in the Mt. Hood National Forest, Clackamas County, open to the public. The water is tepid, the temperature of a cool bath. It sits steps from the Whiteaway Trail at a bit over four thousand feet, with Still Creek campground under half a mile away. Mount Hood Village is the closest town listed, twenty-three miles out.
This is the wet side of the Cascades. Nearly seventy inches of precipitation annually and something like two hundred inches of snow, which buries the area for a good part of the winter. The spring is on Forest Service land in the Mt. Hood National Forest, a few yards from the Whiteaway Trail. Still Creek campground is within walking distance.
The record names winter as the best season, which with two hundred inches of snow is a strange call; expect deep snow on the approach in those months. Public access is open, no fee listed. Still Creek campground is the obvious base. A water sample from 1980 shows mildly alkaline water with calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulfate and chloride; the analysis is old.
The water at Swim Warm Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 8.0) with 405 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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Overview Still Creek Campground lies in the shadows of majestic Mt. Hood, in Oregon's Mt. Hood National Forest. It is one of the closest campgrounds to the mountain, and offers access to a variety of recreational opportunities. The surrounding area contains hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding trails, as well as numerous mountain lakes, rivers and creeks.Recreation A variety of hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding trails can be accessed from the campground, including the histo...
Swim 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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