Strawberry Park Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Strawberry Park Hot Springs is a fee site about six miles outside Steamboat Springs, Routt County. OpenStreetMap tags it as a hot spring bath with an entry charge. No temperature is recorded here, and neither is a landowner or a public access status.
Roadside, with maybe 150 feet between the water and the road, and that road went unnamed. Elevation lands a little under 7,500 feet. Winter piles on more than a hundred inches of snow. Rainfall across the year is middling. Dry Lake Campground sits four miles off.
No best months appear on file. A fee applies, per OpenStreetMap. Since no temperature is on record, the page cannot tell you how hot the water runs; ask on arrival. No chemistry is on file either. Heavy winter snow means checking the road before you drive.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 380 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 64% 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.
Overview Dry Lake Trailhead is located off County Road 60 (Buffalo Pass Road) and is near the Dry Lake Campground. This trailhead provides access to both non-motorized and motorized trails. Access for dirt bikes and other recreational vehicles on Buffalo Pass Road. This is a very high-use year-round trailhead and a gateway to exploring the aspens, sub-alpine firs, and wildflowers of the mountains of the Park Range. A vault toilet is provided at the Trailhead. Dry Lake Trailhead is managed by...
Strawberry Park Hot Springs sits at 7,440 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 30% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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