Lidy Hot 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.
Lidy Hot Springs is in Clark County, sixteen miles from Dubois. Hot water, hotter than anyone would sit in untempered. There is no owner in our data and no access status, and there is no water chemistry on file, only a temperature and a USGS site number. The road is close; the walk in is a matter of a few hundred feet.
Roughly 500 feet from a road our data leaves nameless. Elevation is fifty-three hundred feet in dry country, a foot of precipitation annually and snow of around three feet. For camping the record lists Birch Creek Campground, seventeen miles out. Neither a land manager nor a land unit is on record.
December through February are the driest months on our chart. The water needs cooling before contact; test before you step in. Find out whether the land is private first; our data does not say. No fee is listed and the temperature has no survey date attached.
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 Lidy Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 240 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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 94% 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.
***An intense precipitation event occurring in southeastern Idaho resulted in the flooding of the popular Birch Creek campground. Fast moving water washed out many of the roads, leaving eroded gaps as deep as 3 Ѕ feet. While the area is still open to the public, the Bureau of Land Management Upper Snake Field Office urges the public to remain cautious, as the site has significantly changed.***This campground includes approximately 25 campsites with amenities such as picnic tables, fire rings,...
Lidy Hot Springs sits at 5,300 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 21% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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