Hot Spring
An entry called only Hot Spring, in Clark County on the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, with Boulder City the nearest town and no distance between them on file. The record flags the water as hot but holds no measured temperature, so the heat is a label without a figure. A 2019 sample shows alkaline water heavy in dissolved solids. Access is open. The National Park Service owns the ground.
Count on hiking a bit over a mile in; the road you start from is unnamed. The spring sits low, around seven hundred feet, in desert that gets about six inches of rain and no snow at all. The annual mean is in the mid seventies. The land is National Park Service, part of the recreation area around Lake Mead. No campground is named.
The record suggests no season. The approach is a hike of a little over a mile. Access is open on Park Service land. No campground, nothing on fees. Nobody measured the temperature, only labeled it hot, and the 2019 chemistry shows heavily mineralized water, so expect heat and take it carefully.
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 Hot 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
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 616 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 56% 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.
The water at Hot Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.2) with 2790 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health), sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration), and sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation).
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