Mud Volcanoes
Off Gillespie Road about five miles from Niland, another of the Mud Volcanoes records in Imperial County. Warm in the record's wording, unmeasured in fact. Treat the temperature as unknown. No owner is listed.
Gillespie Road brings you to within a quarter mile or less, on flat ground nearly two hundred feet under sea level. Dry enough that three inches of rain counts as a normal year. Annual average temperature is close to eighty. The USGS monitors the point under site 331703115344001.
Nothing on record for best months, camping, fees, or access. Cool months are the practical choice for any walk out here. Confirm you are allowed on the land before you go.
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 Mud Volcanoes.
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
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 14 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 71% 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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Mud Volcanoes is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Bring sun protection for exposed soaking.
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