A few days ago I went for a short hike along the Sandy river in Oxbow park. I’d stumbled across a little mystery in the area that I wanted to investigate. While randomly looking at a geothermal map of Oregon (I was bored), I found a mention of a “Camp Collins hot spring” on the peninsula in Oxbow park. I managed to find some information on it from the Oregon department of geology website here:
https://www.oregongeology.org/gtilo/ng ... MU-003.pdf.
I was able to find the gps coordinates for the site (45.503936N, -122.302747W). I then asked a friend of mine who worked at camp Collins about it, but she said she’d never heard of it. So I set out to investigate myself.
- Sandy river
- The river’s moving fast, notice the stream bank erosion?
- This is where the springs should be (right where the creek meets the river).
- Bushwhacking up the creek to see if I find anything.
- Almost back to the trail
Oh well, so sign of it. It might be on the other side of the mouth if the creek, but I didn’t have waders and didn’t feel like mucking across. Does anyone know anything about the Camp Collins hot springs? Did it go by way of Kennedy hot springs?
