Mound Valley Warm 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.
Out past Soda Springs by about twenty-one miles, in Caribou County, Idaho, Mound Valley Warm Spring carries the warm label on the record without a measured temperature behind it, so do not take this as a place known to be soakable. Chemistry was never sampled, going by the record, and the land owner is unrecorded. Public access is likewise blank.
Roughly a tenth-mile off an unnamed road. Moderate elevation. The record has nothing on who manages the land. Winters here bring a fair amount of snow, more than eighty inches in an average year, and the precipitation total is middling. Maple Grove Campground is the nearest fixed point the record supplies, and the only one.
No best months are recorded. Camping, as noted, is Maple Grove Campground, about six miles off. The record holds no temperature to warn about, and the water's makeup is undescribed. Ownership is unknown here, so confirm that before you visit. With the record this sparse, check every detail locally, including the walk in from the road.
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 Mound Valley Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 65 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 53% 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.
Campground rules and regulations are posted at the site. There are no dumpsters on site, visitors must pack in and out their trash. Campsites: 12 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. Overnight Camping Fees: $5.00 per vehicle/ per night This site is equipped picnic tables, fire rings, vault toilets, horseshoe pits, and boat ramp with a dock. There is no Day-use allowed and facilities a...
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