Soda Springs (also, Berkeley Soda Springs and Summit Soda Springs) is a set of springs in

Placer County Placer County ( ; Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 404,739. The county seat is Auburn. Placer County is included in the Great ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

that was in the 19th century once the location of a hotel and resort. Soda Springs is located on the North Fork of the

American River , name_etymology = , image = American River CA.jpg , image_size = 300 , image_caption = The American River at Folsom , map = Americanrivermap.png , map_size = 300 , map_caption ...

, west of

Tinker Knob Tinker Knob is an 8,949-foot-elevation (2,728 meter) mountain summit in Placer County, California, Placer County, California, United States. Description Tinker Knob is located south-southeast of Donner Pass and northwest of Lake Tahoe, o ...

, and north-northwest of

Granite Chief Granite Chief is a mountain located in the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe. The mountain rises to an elevation of and receives consistent heavy snowfall during the winter months. The summit is the highest point in the Granite Chief Wilderness and ...

. It lies at an elevation of 6047 feet (1843 m). Serene Lakes, a pair of lakes spanning 77 acres (0.31 km2), is located in Soda Springs and

. A resort that operated at Soda Springs burned down in 1898.

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* Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Placer County, California {{PlacerCountyCA-geo-stub

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