Frost Mine 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.
Frost Mine Spring is a lukewarm seep roughly ten miles out of Kingman in Mohave County, on BLM ground. Nobody would call it a soak. The water comes out cooler than a bath, warm enough only to stand apart from the other seeps in these hills, and the USGS logs it as a thermal site. Mostly it interests people who collect obscure thermal points on a map. Access is open.
Frost Mine Road passes within a few hundred feet, close enough that getting to the seep takes no real effort. The land is public, administered by the BLM's Kingman Field Office, dry country a bit over four thousand feet up where winters bring a dusting of snow and rain stays under a foot in a typical year. The record says nothing about the ground right at the seep, and no fee or bath structure of any kind is listed.
Winter is the season the averages favor, December through February. Snowfall is light. Wild Cow Springs Campground is the closest place to camp, about seven and a half miles off. The temperature on file comes with no date, so treat it as approximate, and expect lukewarm water whatever the reading says.
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 Frost Mine Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 388 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 61% 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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Wild Cow Springs Campground is situated in a grove of oak and large ponderosa pines within the Hualapai Mountains, at an elevation of 6,200 ft. This site becomes especially attractive during the summer months, with temperatures here averaging 20 degrees cooler than the nearby desert valleys located over 3,000 feet below. The site has an accessible campsite and vault toilet and most camping and picnic areas have fire rings, grills, trash cans, and picnic tables.All sites are filled on a firs...
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