Corder Hot Spring
Corder Hot Spring comes up within a few steps of Fry Drive, nine feet from the road by the record, in Boise County about fifteen miles from Idaho City. The water is hot, well past comfortable, the kind you would have to cool before sitting in. The land owner is not on file and there is no public access entry, so the roadside location settles nothing about who may use it.
There is no approach to describe. The road runs past it. Elevation is modest, a bit over three thousand feet. The winters bring roughly nine feet of snow, enough to matter. A campground named Hot Springs is the nearest camping, around four miles away. Precipitation for the year is moderate. A photo exists for this site.
Hot at the source, so test before touching. Winter is listed as the best window in the record. The pH and mineral figures trace to a November 1978 sample. Since access is not on record, assume nothing about permission and ask locally. The Hot Springs campground is where you would camp.
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 Corder 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.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 448 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 79% 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 Corder Hot Spring is alkaline (pH 9.2).
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Overview Hot Springs Campground is located just east of Garden Valley, Idaho along the Banks-Lowman Highway at an elevation of 3169 feet. Visitors enjoy rafting, kayaking, fishing on the South Fork Payette River, and soaking in the hot springs at the river's edge. Recreation The South Fork Payette River is across the road from the campground, offering fishing, whitewater rafting, and kayaking. A natural hot springs soaking pool is located on the river directly across the road and down a...
Corder Hot Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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