Hot Spring On Little Sitkin Island
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Little Sitkin Island's hot spring sits in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge with the closest road the record knows of nearly two hundred miles off. Heat is a qualifier only. No reading exists. Access is restricted, and no county is listed for the island. Nothing on file names a pool or any structure at the spring.
US Fish and Wildlife Service refuge. The spring sits around a thousand feet up. Backcountry is the access class, and given the distance from anything with a road the word undersells it. Snow runs a bit over six feet a year. The mean temperature holds in the upper thirties, with around four feet of precipitation on top.
The record carries no season guidance and no campground. Access is restricted; ask the Alaska Maritime refuge. With nothing measured, a soak is speculation. Anyone reaching Little Sitkin is running their own logistics, and the record holds nothing to help with them.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 314 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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.