Lava Warm Springs
Lava Warm Springs comes up on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, out in Mohave County with Peach Springs sitting about fifty miles off. Ninety degrees at the source, body warm on a cool day. Tribal land, and permission to visit is not on record. Someone sampled the water in April 2023 and found it slightly acidic with iron in it. There is a photo.
The road ends about a mile short of the spring. Nobody has named it on file, so you walk. The spring sits low, well under two thousand feet, in country that nevertheless sees more than a foot of snow in a normal year with rain around ten inches. Seventy or so is the mean for the year. Tribal land, Hualapai. No campground is named anywhere in the record.
The best months given are the winter ones, December through February. Plan on walking about a mile from the road. The reservation controls access and the record says unknown, so get permission from the tribe before going. Neither camp nor fee appears on file. Mild water, no heat warning needed. The chemistry is recent, a 2023 sample.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
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
- 1,111 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
A slice through the ground from north to south, 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 30% 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 Lava Warm Springs is slightly acidic (pH 6.2). It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health) and magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief).
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Lava Warm Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Bring sun protection for exposed soaking.
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