Marsh 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.
Marsh Creek Hot Spring is in Minidoka County, fourteen miles from Rupert, with Marsh Creek Road the nearest road. The water is soaking warm, in the range of a hot bath. Owner and access are both unrecorded, and the temperature comes with no chemistry and no survey date. The walk from the road is short of half a mile.
About 0.4 miles from Marsh Creek Road, which is the only road our data names for it. Elevation is forty-six hundred feet. The climate is dry and snow is light, a couple of feet a year. McClendon Spring Campground is about ten miles off, the closest in our data. No land manager listed.
Winters here are dry and lightly snowed. Figure on walking about 0.4 miles. Look for signs at the road, since nobody has logged whether entry is permitted. The temperature is unverified and has no date, and there is no USGS site number to go looking for more.
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 Marsh Creek Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 244 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 27% 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.
Explore the Cotterel Mountains or hunt for upland birds and deer near this semi-developed camping destination. McClendon Spring was a favorite resting place for emigrants along the California Trail.
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