Prices Warm Spring
Prices Warm Spring sits in Oneida County eleven or twelve miles from Malad City. It is tepid, upper seventies on the USGS reading, so cooler than a bath. No water chemistry has been published for it and no owner is named. Nor has anyone noted an access status. A photograph is on file.
Reaching the spring takes a walk of less than two hundred yards off an unnamed road. Mid elevation, mild on average, with snow around four feet and a dryish year overall. A USGS site number is on file, and that is about the extent of the official paperwork.
The camp on record, Third Creek Group Site, lies about thirteen miles away. January leads the best months, followed by the other two winter months. Because no one has recorded ownership, assume nothing about access and ask in Malad City. No chemistry, no flow figure, no fee information. The water is warm enough to feel and no 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 Prices 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 32 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 62% 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.
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Overview Third Creek Group Campground is located just 12 miles northeast of Malad, Idaho, on the Weston Highway near Deep Creek Reservoir. Visitors enjoy exploring the local trail system and fishing at Deep Creek.Recreation Third Creek Trailhead is adjacent to the campground, complete with hitching racks for horses. It accesses the Oxford Peak Trail System and is open to hikers, bikers, motorcyclists and off-road vehicle users as well. Deep Creek Reservoir offers good trout, as well as boati...
Prices Warm Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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