Belvidere Hot Spring
Three miles from Cascade in Valley County, Idaho, Belvidere Hot Spring is a short walk off Cabarton Road. The source runs hot, a bit past the soaking range, and the water leans strongly alkaline. No landowner is recorded, and the access status is blank. A photo is on file for this one.
A tenth-mile off Cabarton Road, at around forty-eight hundred feet. Snowfall is heavy, nearly thirteen feet in a normal year, and the climate is on the wet side, averaging in the mid forties. No land unit listed. French Creek Campground is five or six miles away. Having a named road helps with finding it.
Best months listed: December through February, with that snow, so plan accordingly. The walk is short. At the source it is hot enough to want cooling, and nothing on file mentions a pool. Public access is not on record. Chemistry is from 1979 and has not been resampled since.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 55 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 86% 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 Belvidere Hot Spring is alkaline (pH 9.3).
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Overview French Creek Campground is located next to scenic Lake Cascade in west-central Idaho. It is near the town of Donnelly, at an elevation of 4,850 feet. Boating, fishing, swimming and hiking are popular activities in this scenic region.Recreation Lake Cascade offers excellent opportunities for boating, water skiing, canoeing, windsurfing and sailing. Anglers enjoy casting for rainbow trout, coho salmon, smallmouth bass and perch. Many hiking and biking trails are in the area as well.Fac...
Belvidere Hot Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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