Pocahontas Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Pocahontas Hot Springs is a named thermal spring in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. The nearest town in the record, Nuiqsut, is over three hundred miles distant. Land ownership and access status are both blank. So is the temperature. What the file holds is a name and a distance to a road, and anyone going would be working from that alone.
the road distance on record says about four miles from Hillside Road, classed as a hike. The climate row reads cold, with light precipitation. Snow comes to roughly four feet. Nothing describes the terrain, and no land unit is named.
Go in summer, and only with an independent reason to be on the North Slope. Verify who owns the land before you set out, since the record is silent on it. Nothing in the file backs up the heat the name implies, so carry no assumption about soaking. The file lists no campground and gives no season, and there is no fee 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 east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 78 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.