Agua Caliente Spring
Agua Caliente Spring, the one near Arivaca Junction in Pima County, Arizona, has a recorded temperature right at ninety, the bottom edge of soaking warm. It sits at close to four thousand feet. Access is not on record, nor is a land owner, and that gap matters with a road this close. The USGS keeps a site record and there is a photograph in the file.
Eighty feet from the road, roadside by any measure. High desert, dry, with snow a rarity. For camping the record points to Kent Springs Cabin, around five and a half miles away. no land owner is on record.
Winter months are the listed best season. The temperature makes it a candidate for a sit, but nothing in the record says the public is allowed there, so find out who owns it first. No fee is listed and there is no water chemistry on record, so the single temperature reading is the whole picture.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Agua Caliente Spring.
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 92 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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.
That's about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 65% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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Overview Kent Springs Cabin is located in the Madera Canyon Recreation Area, 15 miles southeast of Green Valley, Arizona in the Coronado National Forest. Located in an area boasting unique natural features and historical sites, the secluded and private cabin is an ideal location for guests seeking relaxation and recreation although less than an hour from Tucson.Recreation Madera Canyon hiking trails are well-known throughout the Southwest, and vary from paved, accessible trails and gentle wa...
Agua Caliente Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Bring sun protection for exposed soaking.
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