Leggit 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.
Leggit Creek Hot Spring takes a hike to reach, a thermal site in Camas County, Boise National Forest, about thirty-five miles from Fairfield. No temperature is on file. It is classed as hot in our records, and the 1955 sample showed strongly alkaline water, but we cannot tell you whether it is soakable. Access is open.
A mile and a bit on foot from the nearest road, unnamed in our records. This is high country, nearly sixty-seven hundred feet, with heavy snow, close to fifteen feet a year, and plenty of rain. Atlanta Cabin is about four miles off, the nearest lodging in our records. National Forest land.
We have no best-months data for this one. Given the snowfall, the approach will be buried in winter. The water chemistry is seventy years old and there is no temperature reading at all, so treat it as unknown until you see it. No fee on record. Access open.
The water was sampled by the USGS in July 1955. That reading, high in pH with a moderate mineral load, is the only one on 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 Leggit Creek Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 996 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 82% 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 Leggit Creek Hot Spring is alkaline (pH 9.6) with 234 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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Overview Atlanta Cabin is located in the old mining town of Atlanta, Idaho, at an elevation of 5,800 feet. It is part of a historic ranger station compound built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Forest Service in 1933. This compound, known as the Atlanta Ranger Station Historic District, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The roads to the cabin are generally well-maintained, although there are some rough washboard sections. Guests can drive to the cabin, but shoul...
Leggit Creek Hot Spring sits at 6,686 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 27% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Leggit Creek Hot Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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