Juniper 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.
Up in Moffat County, twenty-one miles from Craig, Juniper Hot Springs comes out of the ground at body heat, a soaking-warm temperature in the record. County Road 53 runs past within a few dozen yards. Land owner and public access are both missing, so who controls the spring is unknown from this data.
The approach is roadside off County Road 53. The country here is dry, with modest snow and about a foot of rain a year, and the elevation is under six thousand feet. Craig is the only town the record names, and it is not close. No campground is attached to this point. The land columns are all empty.
The season ranking points to winter. Soaking warm means you can sit in it without tempering, assuming you have a right to be there, which the record does not establish. No campground is listed nearby. The 1976 sample shows mildly alkaline water. Check land status before driving out.
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 Juniper Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 97 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 2% 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 Juniper Hot Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.9). It is notably rich in sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration).
Juniper Hot Springs sits at 5,990 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 24% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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