Resting Spring
Five miles from Pahrump, Resting Spring is a warm desert spring on BLM land, handled by the Barstow Field Office, with public access recorded as open. The record lists it under Nye County. The water is warm, in the tepid range, and from the nearest road it is a few hundred yards on foot.
Open desert, next to no rain, never any snow. The BLM manages it as public land. The road you walk in from is unnamed on file. Elevation is modest, under two thousand feet, and the yearly average is warm, which is why the recommended months are cold ones. No bath type or fee is on file, and Pahrump is close by.
The three winter months are the ones to aim for. Camping is not listed anywhere close. Entry is open and no fee appears in the record. The water is tepid, so the only caution is the desert itself: carry water and avoid summer.
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 Resting 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.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 17 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 63% 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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