Grapevine 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.
Grapevine Springs is a warm spring in Death Valley National Park, reached by roughly 1.5 miles of walking from Ubehebe Crater Road. The record files it under Nye County with Beatty as the nearest town. The water is about body temperature, soaking warm, and access is open on National Park Service land.
Ubehebe Crater Road is the jumping-off point; from there the record shows one and a half miles on foot. The spring sits at low to mid elevation on park land, where around seven inches of rain fall annually and snow is light. The yearly average runs warm.
Winter, December through February, is the season on record. A national park means park rules on soaking and on camping; no campground is listed near this spring, so plan that separately. The water is about body temperature, fine to touch. A USGS site is recorded here. Fees are not noted for the spring itself.
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 Grapevine Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 282 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 48% 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.
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