Artesian City 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.
Twelve miles or so from Hansen, in Twin Falls County, Idaho, Artesian City Hot Springs comes up at body temperature beside a road. Neither an owner nor a land unit is on file, and public access goes unrecorded. Soaking warm, with no burn concern. Whatever is built around it, if anything, is not described.
A little over forty-three hundred feet, in a dry corner of the state that sees around fourteen inches of precipitation and a couple feet of snow a year. Average temperatures hover near fifty. The road is within a stone's throw; its name is not given. Lower Penstemon campground, the nearest on file, is sixteen miles off.
Winter is the season on record, December through February, and with modest snowfall that is workable most years. Roadside means no walk. Ownership is a blank in the record, so treat it as possibly private until a sign says otherwise. No water chemistry has been sampled here, and no fee is listed.
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 Artesian City Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the south.
- Highest ground nearby
- 69 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 45% 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 Lower Penstemon Campground is located along the scenic Rock Creek Road, in southern Idaho, at an elevation of 6,600 feet. Visitors come to the area to enjoy its abundant trails and natural beauty.Recreation Hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding and off-road vehicle trails crisscross the surrounding area. Third Fork, Pike Mountain, Rim View and Porcupine Spring trails all begin nearby. Rock Creek runs along the campground, offering good trout fishing.Facilities The campground cont...
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