Kaiser Hot Spring
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Kaiser Hot Spring, in Yavapai County about eighteen miles from Bagdad, comes up at roughly body temperature. That is a pleasant soak by most standards. Neither the owner of the land nor the access status is on file, and the record has no picture and no second name. A 1980 sample reads neutral. It carries a USGS site number.
You walk the last half mile, and the road you leave behind has no name in the record. This is desert lowland. The year averages in the low seventies and snow is almost unheard of. Rain comes to under ten inches. Burro Creek Campground sits a bit over three miles away and makes a sensible base.
Come in winter, the record says, December through February. Expect a half mile walk in. Burro Creek is the camp. Ownership and access are not recorded, so confirm the spring is reachable without crossing private ground. The water is warm, no heat caution needed. Chemistry dates to 1980. Fee: unrecorded.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 793 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 62% 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.
The water at Kaiser Hot Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.4).
Overview The Burro Creek Campground (1,960’ elevation) is situated along the 57 mile Burro Creek in a transition zone between the upper reaches of the scenic Sonoran Desert and lower reaches of the scenic Mojave Desert. The campground offers visitors a variety of scenery including saguaro-studded cliffs along steep canyon walls that contrast Burro Creek’s dense vegetation and flowing waters that form deep pools of water just adjacent to the campground. The campground accepts reservations fo...