Indian Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Indian Springs in Power County is four miles from American Falls, with a road of the same name running close by and a campground under two miles off. Ninety-degree water, which is the cool end of soaking. Neither owner nor access status has been recorded, and the only chemistry dates to a 1972 USGS visit.
Indian Springs Road runs within about five hundred feet. Elevation is forty-five hundred feet, with moderate snow, around three feet, and a fairly dry climate. Pipeline Campground is close, under two miles. No land manager is listed, and there is no land designation either, so the question of who to ask about access stays open.
Winter rates driest by our data. It is a short walk in. With no access status recorded, watch for posting at the road. The water was sampled in 1972 and the pH came back near neutral; nothing newer exists. No fee is on file, and no agency is listed as managing the ground.
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 Indian Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 69 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from west to east, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 16% 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 Indian Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5). It is notably rich in chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
Campground rules and regulations are posted at the site. There are no dumpsters on site, visitors must pack in and out their trash. Campsites: 6 semi-developed sites--- At this time, there is not a reservation system in place for the campsites. Campsites are on a first come first serve basis. This site is equipped with a parking lot, picnic tables, fire rings, vault toilet, horseshoe pits, and boat ramp/docks accessing the Snake River below American Falls Reservoir Dam at the site. There a...