Spring Path

Spring Path 隠れ泉への道 Path to the Hidden Spring

Map description The fourth lake of Sinnoh that was kept secret. Beneath the lake's surface is a cave where dimensions are distorted.

Required for navigation Cut Surf Strength Flash Defog Whirlpool Rock Smash Waterfall Dive Rock Climb Bicycle Mach Bike Acro Bike Go-Goggles None

Connecting locations ← Route 214 Spring Path Sendoff Spring →

Location Location of Spring Path in Sinnoh.

Pokémon world routes

The Spring Path (Japanese: 隠れ泉への道 Path to the Hidden Spring) is a short path off the main area of Route 214 that leads into Sendoff Spring. In Hisui, it is mapped under the northwestern portion of the Cobalt Coastlands and covers a wider area. Turnback Cave is accessible from the Spring Path.

In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, this path only appears after the player has entered the Hall of Fame and obtained the National Pokédex. In Pokémon Platinum, the path appears after the player escapes the Distortion World to Sendoff Spring, allowing the player to exit to Route 214.

In Diamond, Pearl, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl, the background music is the same as in the Old Chateau. In Platinum, the background music is the same as in Route 214.

There are no wild Pokémon on this short path in Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl, but there are in Legends: Arceus.

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Old Verse 5	Across the entrance to Turnback Cave, at the base of the mountain (hidden, requires Ursaluna)	LA

Pokémon

Pokémon Legends: Arceus

Location of Spring Path in Hisui

Pokémon	Levels	Alpha Levels	Time of day				Weather
Golduck‡	41-44	56-59	✔				✔
Piplup‡	12-15	27-30	✔				✔
Prinplup‡	32-25	47-50	✔				✔
Bibarel	41-44	56-59	✔				✔
Toxicroak	41-44	56-59	✔				✔
Fixed Alpha
Mothim		56	✔				✔
In the air
Murkrow‡	41-44	56-59				✔	✔
Staraptor‡	41-44	56-59	✔	✔	✔		✔
Mothim	41-44	56-59	✔				✔
Shaking trees
Burmy  Trash Cloak	16-19	31-34	✔				✔
Wormadam  Trash Cloak	41-44	56-59	✔				✔
Shaking ore deposits
Graveler	41-44	56-59	✔				✔
Space-time distortions
Kadabra	30-58	45-73	✔				✔
Alakazam	30-58	50-78	✔				✔
Magnemite	30-58	45-73	✔				✔
Magneton	30-58	45-73	✔				✔
Rhydon	42-70	57-85	✔				✔
Mr. Mime	30-58	50-78	✔				✔
Eevee	30-58	45-73	✔				✔
Vaporeon	30-58	45-73	✔				✔
Flareon	30-58	45-73	✔				✔
Skuntank	34-62	49-77	✔				✔
Carnivine	30-58	45-73	✔				✔
Magnezone	35-63	50-78	✔				✔
Rhyperior	42-70	62-90	✔				✔
Unown Research Notes
Unown	25		✔				✔
Non-fixed alpha Pokémon do not spawn until the player quelled the frenzy of the subregion's noble. Some of the Pokémon marked with (‡) may only spawn near the area's borders.

Layout

Diamond	Pearl	Platinum

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

The Spring Path in Pokémon Adventures

Diamond & Pearl arc

The Spring Path debuted in Shorting Out Electivire, where Platinum, Maylene, and Candice had come here to train with Volkner after their defeat at the hands of Jupiter at Lake Acuity. At first, Volkner was unwilling to train with them, having only come in hopes of facing the opponent who had been strong enough to defeat two Gym Leaders together. However, Platinum managed to convince Volkner to stay, and started a battle with him, all the while describing Jupiter's tactics to Volkner and demonstrating them with her own Pokémon.

As the battle progressed, Volkner told Platinum that if she would be able to defeat all of his Pokémon, he'd reward her with a Beacon Badge, just like in an official Gym battle. Eventually Platinum managed to beat the Leader of the Sunyshore Gym, earning her her eighth and final Badge.

In Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia VI, Volkner, who had ignored the call to join the other Gym Leaders to fight Team Galactic at the Spear Pillar and was instead hanging out at the Spring Path, noticed a black portal over the Sendoff Spring, and informed Flint about it.

Platinum arc

In The Final Dimensional Duel V, Volkner and Flint traveled through the Spring Path on their way to the Sendoff Spring, intending to go battle Giratina in the Distortion World.

Trivia

• In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the music for this area (and potentially the surrounding areas of Route 214, Sendoff Spring, and Turnback Cave) will be missing instruments or stop playing based upon certain actions:
  • Entering or leaving the area
  • Starting a battle
  • Getting on or off the Bicycle or a Surfing Pokémon
  • Using the Poké Radar
  • Hatching an Egg
  • Opening a sub-menu:
    • Pokédex, Party, Bag, Trainer Card, Options, and certain registered items (Town Map, Journal, Pal Pad, and Poffin Case)
• The German translation of Spring Path's name in Generation IV games contains an error stemming from the word "spring" having different meanings — both a source of water, which is the intended meaning, and a season, with the German version using the latter meaning. This error was fixed in the remakes.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 隱泉之路 Yánchyùhn-jī Louh Mandarin 隱泉之路 / 隐泉之路 Yǐnquán-zhī Lù * 通往隱泉之路 Tōngwǎng Yǐnquán-zhī Lù * French Chemin de la SourceBDSP Chemin SourceDPPt German QuellenpfadBDSP FrühlingspfadDPPt Italian Sentiero Fonte Korean 숨겨진 샘의 길 Sumgyeojin Saem-ui Gil Spanish Vía Manantial Vietnamese Đường tới suối bí mật

Sinnoh
Settlements Twinleaf Town • Sandgem Town • Jubilife City • Oreburgh City • Floaroma Town • Eterna City • Hearthome City Solaceon Town • Veilstone City • Pastoria City • Celestic Town • Canalave City • Snowpoint City • Sunyshore City Pokémon League • Fight Area • Survival Area • Resort Area Routes 201 • 202 • 203 • 204 • 205 • 206 • 207 • 208 • 209 • 210 • 211 • 212 • 213 • 214 • 215 216 • 217 • 218 • 219 • 220 • 221 • 222 • 223 • 224 • 225 • 226 • 227 • 228 • 229 • 230 Landmarks Lake Verity (Lakefront) • Oreburgh Gate • Oreburgh Mine • Oreburgh Mining Museum • Global Terminal/Global Wonder Station Ravaged Path • Floaroma Meadow • Valley Windworks • Eterna Forest • Old Chateau • Underground/Grand Underground Wayward Cave • Mount Coronet • Amity Square • Lost Tower • Hallowed Tower • Solaceon Ruins • Maniac Tunnel • Lake Valor (Lakefront) Great Marsh • Pokémon Mansion • Trophy Garden • Fuego Ironworks • Iron Island • Lake Acuity (Lakefront) • Spear Pillar • Victory Road Pal Park/Ramanas Park • Contest Hall • Battle Zone • Battle Park • Battle Tower/Battle Frontier • Stark Mountain • Snowpoint Temple Spring Path • Sendoff Spring • Turnback Cave • Fullmoon Island • Newmoon Island • Seabreak Path • Flower Paradise • Hall of Origin Access to Distortion World See also Hisui

Hisui
Settlements Jubilife Village • Diamond Settlement • Pearl Settlement • Ancient Retreat Obsidian Fieldlands Aspiration Hill • Floaro Gardens • Horseshoe Plains • Grueling Grove • Worn Bridge • Deertrack Path • Deertrack Heights Windswept Run • Nature's Pantry • Tidewater Dam • The Heartwood • Grandtree Arena • Oreburrow Tunnel • Obsidian Falls Ramanas Island • Sandgem Flats • Lake Verity Crimson Mirelands Golden Lowlands • Gapejaw Bog • Holm of Trials • Ursa's Ring • Sludge Mound • Scarlet Bog • Solaceon Ruins • Cloudpool Ridge Shrouded Ruins • Diamond Heath • Bolderoll Slope • Cottonsedge Prairie • Droning Meadow • Lake Valor • Brava Arena Cobalt Coastlands Crossing Slope • Ginkgo Landing • Aipom Hill • Bathers' Lagoon • Hideaway Bay • Deadwood Haunt • Tombolo Walk Sand's Reach • Tranquility Cove • Castaway Shore • Tidal Passage • Windbreak Stand • Spring Path • Turnback Cave • Islespy Shore Veilstone Cape • Lunker's Lair • Seagrass Haven • Seaside Hollow • Firespit Island • Molten Arena • Lava Dome Sanctum Coronet Highlands Heavenward Lookout • Wayward Cave • Wayward Wood • Ancient Quarry • Sonorous Path • Lonely Spring • Clamberclaw Cliffs Celestica Ruins • Celestica Trail • Primeval Grotto • Sacred Plaza • Stonetooth Rows • Bolderoll Ravine • Fabled Spring Moonview Arena • Cloudcap Pass • Stone Portal • Temple of Sinnoh • Hall of Origin Alabaster Icelands Whiteout Valley • Crevasse Passage • Bonechill Wastes • Hibernal Cave • Icebound Falls • Avalanche Slopes Ice Column Chamber • Arena's Approach • Avalugg's Legacy • Icepeak Cavern • Snowfall Hot Spring • Secret Hollow Glacier Terrace • Heart's Crag • Lake Acuity • Snowpoint Temple • Icepeak Arena See also Sinnoh • Mount Coronet • Space-time distortion

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