Keane Wonder Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Keane Wonder Spring is a warm source in Death Valley National Park, off Keane Wonder Mine Road, about thirty-five miles from Beatty. The water comes out at the bottom of soaking range, low nineties. The National Park Service lists access as Open. It is desert in the fullest sense: three inches of precipitation in a whole year.
A short walk, seven tenths of a mile off Keane Wonder Mine Road, across park land at around fourteen hundred feet. Average temperatures here run in the low seventies, snow is close to nonexistent, and rain barely registers. Furnace Creek Campground is fifteen miles from it.
The cool months, December into February, are on record as the best. Access is open and park rules apply. Nobody has recorded a fee. The chemistry is from a 1982 USGS sample and the temperature may have drifted since. No photo on file.
The USGS sampled the water in April 1982. The analysis turned up sodium, chloride, sulfate, calcium and magnesium.
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 Keane Wonder Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 376 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 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.
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 Keane Wonder Spring is neutral (pH 6.8). It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health), magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief), and sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration).
Overview Furnace Creek Campground is the only NPS campground in the park that is reservable. All other NPS campgrounds operate on a first-come, first-serve basis.PLEASE NOTE: The actual availability of any first-come, first served-sites (FF) IS NOT reflected on the Recreation.gov website in real time.Advance reservations are highly recommended for Furnace Creek Campground during the reservation window (October 15 - April 15). First-come, first-served sites (FF) at Furnace Creek Campground ar...
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