Pakoon Springs
Out on the Arizona Strip, Pakoon Springs is a warm spring on Bureau of Land Management ground run from the Arizona Strip Field Office. The record lists it as open to the public. Water comes out tepid, warm enough to notice on a cold morning and nothing like a bath. The county given is Clark and the nearest town named is Bunkerville.
Low desert, well under three thousand feet, and dry. Eight inches of rain in a normal year and a trace of snow. Getting there means a walk of a tenth of a mile or so from the road, and the road itself goes unnamed in the record. This is public land with no designation beyond the Field Office, no fee noted, no facilities mentioned.
Winter is the season to aim for. The water was sampled in 1975 and came back slightly alkaline, with calcium and sodium showing along with sulfate and chloride; that reading is half a century old, so the chemistry and the temperature could both have drifted. Access is open. No campground is on record within reach.
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 Pakoon Springs.
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
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 298 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 42% 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 Pakoon Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.8).
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