Dan Hodges Hot Spring
Dan Hodges Hot Spring sits about ninety feet off Riverview Way in Boise County. Idaho City is fifteen miles off. The source is hot enough to scald, right at a hundred and forty by the record. The owner is unknown to the record, and the record is empty, so the roadside spot comes with a question mark attached. There is a photo of it.
The approach is the road itself. The spring lies a bit above three thousand feet, and the valley sees close to nine feet of snow each winter and a moderate amount of rain. A campground called Hot Springs is listed about four and a half miles away. What the ground around the source looks like is not recorded.
Scalding at the outlet; keep hands and feet away from the source. Winter rates best in the record. Chemistry is from February 1979. Access is unrecorded, so check before you count on it. The nearest camping carries the name Hot Springs.
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 Dan Hodges 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
- 547 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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 75% 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 Dan Hodges Hot Spring is alkaline (pH 9.1).
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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...
Dan Hodges Hot Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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