Indian Valley Hot 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.
Greenville is under a mile from Indian Valley Hot Springs, which sits in Plumas County off Hot Springs Road. The water comes out at a soaking temperature, a touch above body heat. A USGS sample from 2018 shows mildly mineral water with a neutral pH. Nobody is recorded as owner, and access is unrecorded too, which matters this close to town.
Hot Springs Road passes a few hundred feet from the water. Elevation is under four thousand feet, in mountain country that gets a fair amount of snow and decent rain. No land unit is listed. Spanish Creek Campground is the nearest on file, about eight miles from the spring, and no fee is recorded anywhere.
Winter ranks best in the record, though snowfall is substantial. The 2018 sample is recent enough to trust for chemistry. Temperature sits right in soaking range, so there is no scald risk at the source. Nobody has logged public use; assume private until you learn otherwise.
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 Indian Valley Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 12 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 79% 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 Indian Valley Hot Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.3) with 156 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Overview Spanish Creek Campground is located on Highway 70 just east of the Highway 89 intersection; just east of where Banish Creek and Indian Creek merge together to create the east branch of the North Fork Feather River. The campground is right on Spanish Creek with a very popular swimming hole. Although the campground has been recently upgraded, it still holds the charm that it did in years past. Recreation Anglers enjoy a healthy supply of rainbow trout in the nearby Feather River, which...
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