Warm Spring
Warm Spring is a tribal land entry: San Carlos Reservation, Gila County, some sixteen miles out of Canyon Day. No temperature is on record, so the name is all the page can say about the water, and access is listed as unknown. Nothing here should be read as an invitation; the reservation's rules apply. The road is a short way off.
The road, unnamed in the record, passes a few hundred feet away, and the ground is reservation land a little above four thousand feet. The climate is moderate for Arizona, a bit over a foot of snow most winters and about fifteen inches of rain. The land designation is Tribal Land and the unit is the San Carlos Reservation. The Wikipedia link on this record goes to the general article on hot springs, which adds nothing about this place.
There is no best-month rating for this spring and no temperature, so there is nothing to time a visit around. Access is unknown, and the reservation decides who enters. Do not plan on soaking here on the strength of the name. Timber Camp Recreation Area, sixteen miles distant, is the listed campground.
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
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the south.
- Highest ground nearby
- 441 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 19% 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.
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Overview Timber Camp Recreation Area has one of the most popular family and group campgrounds in the Tonto National Forest offering both day-use sites and over-night areas.Recreation Abundant recreation opportunities such as cross-country horseback riding, hiking, in-season hunting, exploring, off-highway vehicle use and wildlife viewing are in close proximity. In the spring, whitewater rafting trips on the Upper Salt River launch a mere 20-minute drive from the site. Brundrett 2 and the equ...
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