Bat Hot Spring, Pence Hot 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.
Bat Hot Spring, also listed as Pence Hot Spring, is a hot spring in Elmore County, Idaho, right at Mountain Home Air Force Base by the distance on record, which rounds to zero. The water is hot, above the range most people soak in. Hot Springs Road runs a third of a mile away. Owner and access are not recorded.
Low desert by the numbers: ten inches of precipitation and under a foot of snow, with a warm average year. Elevation is around twenty-six hundred feet. From Hot Springs Road you finish on foot, and the distance is small. The record names no land unit and lists no campground.
Climate puts winter first here, and light snow is less of a barrier. Chemistry is from 1989, alkaline with iron present. The water is hot enough to hurt. Ease in or stay out. No fee listed. Access status is missing, and with an Air Force base this close, find out whose land it is before you go.
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 Bat Hot Spring, Pence Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 12 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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 50% 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 Bat Hot Spring, Pence Hot Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.2) with 243 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Springs Near Bat Hot Spring, Pence Hot Spring
More Springs Around 117°F
Slightly Alkaline Springs (pH ~8.2)
Hike 6 waterfalls near Bat Hot Spring, Pence Hot Spring
Looking for more outdoor adventures? Explore waterfall hikes near Bat Hot Spring, Pence Hot Spring, Idaho.