Chuginadak Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Chuginadak Hot Springs sits in Aleutians West Census Area country inside the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The record calls the water hot and gives no measured temperature. Access is restricted. The nearest road is over forty miles away, and Dutch Harbor is the closest community named in the listing. Nobody should plan a soak here from what is on file.
Refuge land, managed by Fish and Wildlife, some hundreds of feet above the sea. A road has no practical bearing on getting here; the closest one is better than forty miles distant, so any approach is a full backcountry undertaking with no route on record. The climate is cool, with rain in most months and a moderate snowfall figure for the Aleutians. Cool all year.
There is no best-months entry and no temperature. With access restricted, the Alaska Maritime refuge office is the first call. The word hot in the record arrives without a number behind it, so do not count on water you can sit in. Nothing about facilities or fees is recorded either.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 170 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from west to east, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.