Avalanche Ranch 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.
Avalanche Ranch Hot Springs is on file for Garfield County, Colorado, ten miles from Carbondale, as a named spring with a 1975 USGS water sample and no temperature reading. The name includes both ranch and hot, and the record has nothing on temperature or ownership. Redstone campground is under four miles away.
Forty feet off a road the record does not name. Snowfall is heavy, 105 inches in an average winter, with about two feet of total precipitation. A yearly average in the mid forties. No elevation is on record, no land unit, no designation, so the setting beyond the weather is a blank, and Carbondale is the only town attached.
There are no listed best months. Nearly nine feet of snow annually means the road matters more than the spring in winter. Camp at Redstone. Fees: none on record. The 1975 sample showed alkaline water with iron and sulfate in the mix. Temperature and access both need confirming from some other source.
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 Avalanche Ranch Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 499 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 95% 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.
The water at Avalanche Ranch Hot Springs is alkaline (pH 8.6).
Overview Redstone Campground is set amidst a scattering of aspen groves on a ridge above the Crystal River at 7,800 feet, creating an ideal setting for guests seeking recreation and relaxation in White River National Forest. Sites in the campground are widely spaced and offer wonderful views of red rock outcroppings and cliffs, though an understory of tall grass and a scattered forest provides plenty of privacy.Recreation Crystal River, a tributary of Roaring Fork River, is renowned for its...
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Alkaline Springs (pH ~8.6)
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