Warm Spring
Warm Spring is all the name anyone recorded for this BLM thermal point in Malheur County, forty-odd miles out from Vale. Warm is the word used, and no temperature ever got written down. Public access is open, and the ground belongs to the Bureau of Land Management's Vale Malheur Field Office. The USGS catalogs it under a site number and little else. Chukar Park Campground is under six miles away.
Thirty yards of roadside, the road itself unnamed on file. Dry country at a bit under three thousand feet, about a foot of precipitation annually and a couple feet of snow. The campground at Chukar Park is close. A water sample from 1992 came back strongly alkaline, with sodium, calcium, sulfate and chloride noted.
No best months are listed. Access is open and roadside, so the main unknown is the temperature itself; the warm label comes with no number, and the only chemistry is a 1992 sample. Chukar Park Campground, under six miles off, is the base. No fee on file.
The water at Warm Spring is alkaline (pH 9.0).
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Let the sounds of the babbling North Fork of the Malheur River lull you to sleep at one of the riverside campsites of Chukar Park Campground. This primitive facility offers 19 campsites, seven of which are situated along the shady, lush riparian vegetation. Popular as a base camp with birders, hunters and fishers as well as those venturing through along nearby highway 20, Chukar Park has campsites with partial shade and in full sun. Note that the high-standard, graded county road leading to t...
Warm Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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Alkaline Springs (pH ~9.0)
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