{{about|the spring in California||Salt spring (disambiguation)}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox spring | name = Salt Spring | other_name = {{native name|es|Aguaje La Brea}} | photo = | photo_width = | photo_alt = | photo_caption = | map = California | relief = 1 | map_caption = location of Salt Spring in California<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|id=252205|name=Salt Spring|accessdate=2011-12-06}}</ref> | name_origin = Spanish | location = Kern County, California, United States | spring_source = | elevation = {{convert|509|m|ft|abbr=on}} | coordinates = {{coord|35|43|50|N|119|59|07|W|type:mountain_scale:300000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coords_ref = | hot_spring_type = | type =Spring | provides = | magnitude = | height = | duration = | frequency = | discharge = | temperature = | depth = | embedded = USGS topo map: Emigrant Hill }} thumb|300px|Devils Den District Map '''Salt Spring''', originally, '''Aguaje de la Brea''' (tar springs), a spring in the Antelope Plain<ref>{{GNIS|238639|Antelope Plain}}</ref> on the southeast end of Pyramid Hills, 0.6 miles south of Emigrant Hill<ref>{{GNIS|242013|Emigrant Hill}}</ref> and 1.5 miles north of Wagon Wheel Mountain<ref>{{GNIS|1656652|Wagon Wheel Mountain}}</ref> in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California.<ref name="gnis" /> Its location appears on a 1914 USGS Topographic map of Lost Hills.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cricket.csuchico.edu/scripts/PortWeb.dll?query&field1=Filename&op1=starts+with&value1=CA_640.JPG&template=mapsSID&catalog=topoMaps |title=USGS Topo: Lost Hills, Edition Date: 1914, Scale 1: 125000; from California Historic Topographic Map Collection -Meriam Library, California State College, Chico, accessed December 6, 2011 |access-date=December 7, 2011 |archive-date=December 19, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021219074315/http://cricket.csuchico.edu/scripts/PortWeb.dll?query |url-status=dead }}</ref> Salt Spring is located just east of the Pyramid Hills and the Devils Den Oil Field,<ref>{{GNIS|277372|Devils Den Oil Field}}</ref> 3 miles southwest of Devils Den,<ref>{{GNIS|24145|Devils Den}}</ref><ref name="hoover">Mildred Brooke Hoover, '''Historic spots in California''', Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990, p.124</ref> close by the south side of Kecks Road, 0.23 miles east of the California Aqueduct, enclosed by a fence.
== History == ''Aguaje de la Brea'' was one of the watering places on the route of El Camino Viejo in the San Joaquin Valley between Alamo Solo Spring to the north and Las Tinajas de Los Indios to the south. At the Aguaje de la Brea, oil covered the water of the spring deceiving many thirsty wayfarers, who passed by thinking it only a pool of oil.<ref name="hoover" />
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