Danskin Creek Hot Spring
Danskin Creek Hot Spring comes out at a soaking temperature, a little past a hundred degrees, about sixty feet from Banks Lowman Road on Boise National Forest land. Idaho City is sixteen miles. Access is open and the land is Forest Service, which makes the planning easy on paper. A photograph is on file.
Banks Lowman Road runs right by it; the record puts the water under sixty feet from the roadway. The spring is at about thirty-four hundred feet. Nine feet of snow comes down in winter; rain across the year is moderate. Hot Springs campground is about five miles along. Nothing describes the ground between road and water.
Soakable temperature with no real burn risk. Winter shows as the best season in the record. The water chemistry was last sampled in 1972, a long time ago, so take the pH as historical. Camping at the Hot Springs campground, five miles, and the public may use the spring per the record.
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 Danskin Creek 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
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 321 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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.
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 Danskin Creek Hot Spring is alkaline (pH 8.8).
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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...
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