Applegate Hot Springs

General Description: An extremely hot spring on a hill creating a little hot creek that is surrounded by cow patties

General Location: Northeastern California in the Surprise Valley

Pool Type: Hot Creek

Pool Temps: Extremely Hot (106° - 110° F)

Accessibility: Year round, but the road may be too muddy when wet

Restrictions: None, on BLM land

Elevation: 4600 feet.

Distance from road: 0.00 mile.

Book Reference: Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs

Map Reference: Ceerville CA USGS 1:100,000 scale quadrangle, or Leonards Hot Spring CA USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle

The Hot Spring:

Applegate Hot Springs does not offer a soaking opportunity but has a lot of potential. The hot spring emerges at the top of a little hill on the northeastern side of Surprise Valley with a BLM parking area. There is a little sign at the source marking the site as a stop on the Applegate Trail, part of the California Trail. The source water temperature is about 185 degrees F and forms a small hot creek that flows down the hill. Some pools have been dug out where the water temperature is cooled off, but still too hot to soak at about 120 degrees F. The entire area seems to be dominated by cattle with cow patties all around the hot creek making it too disgusting to soak in, even for us. Applegate could be a wonderful place if the source was protected from cattle and piped to some pools down the hill that is also protected from cattle, but without these improvements its just a cool geothermal site to see.

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Udpate, September 17,

Submitted by Jeff (not verified) on Sun, 2016-09-18 06:19.

Udpate, September 17, 2016

currently at applegate hot springs for the next 2 weeks and there have been improvements since I was here last year. Here's a photo

https://www.flickr.com/photos/9640932@N04/29681812551/

somebody built the wall up a little higher with some more rocks and mud and grass and added pvc pipe. It's now knee deep, big enogh to submerge if you lay down, for two people. water temp mis perfect and easily adjustable

the only way to improve it now would be to dig deeper and that would take some picks because it's hard rock at te bottom, but as of niow it's a lot better than it was last year. plus it's one of the few hot springs you can camp at because, BLM land

this was supposed to be a

Submitted by jeff (not verified) on Wed, 2016-08-31 20:13.

this was supposed to be a replay to wolfgang but it's posted in general replays for this Applegate Hot Spring. email me at auweia1@gmail.com or through the flickr photos if you're up for early october to work on it

hey did a little bit of work

Submitted by jeff (not verified) on Wed, 2016-08-31 20:10.

hey did a little bit of work on these springs last summer and made a shallow pool that was just right, maybe 108 here's the main photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/9640932@N04/sets/72157655674714710 spent a whole week camped there in my RV. it was great and actually the mud is very therapeutic, very fine like volcanic ash. really didn't have a problem with cow pies here's some more photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/9640932@N04/sets/72157655674013000 and another set https://www.flickr.com/photos/9640932@N04/sets/72157656093455545 I might go back there in October 2016 and would be willing to do some work. As you can see I just laid down some cheap plastic and it's just mud and rocks holding it together. I didn't have any tool or supplies to work with, but it still worked OK and I soaked 3 times a day for a week. It's just not really permanent and would probably wash out in a good downpour. maybe email me if you want to try and improve it. Otherwise I'd probably do the same thing the trick is to build up the mud high enough so the pool gets deep enough and just cool enough to tolerate, with just the right drainage...it took a day to get it right Jeff

this is called chicken

Submitted by lee j (not verified) on Fri, 2016-08-19 14:12.

this is called chicken springs by locals. settlers/natives used to defeather birds and game and such here. keep your pets out and alive

Hey, just read about this

Submitted by Wolfgang (not verified) on Fri, 2016-04-08 13:39.

Hey, just read about this place. I'm and old guy who's still plenty strong and very experienced working with natural creeks and pools as well as loose and mortared masonry, plus I've lived in the woods for many years. I have CFS, which fortunately leaves me pretty much alone in hot weather, but hot water is still my second best friend, after Jesus. How hard can it be to bang in a few metal posts and stretch wire to keep bovines out of the creek (as well as deer, who can leave some pretty disgusting piles)? Making cooling pools and lining them with enough 6 mil plastic to keep the dirt out for 20 years (minus sun exposure, good visquine lasts about 10-25 years) ain't rocket science; people of all cultures have been working with hot springs since God gave us hands and feet and cold, cold asses. I was a familiar figure at Harbin Hot Springs in the old days. If this place really has potential and the BLM and cattle owners don't fuck with us, I could see working with another person or three to make a damned nice place. Warning: I'm an old hippie and I foresee lots of medical cannabis helping to facilitate things. My kids just grew up and my Memphis born-and-raised mom just passed away at 89 the same day as good old Merle; I'm a Country singer myself, but I need a project right now and this sounds pretty interesting. I have a big truck ('89 GMC 3500 with duallies) and lots of tools.

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