Rockland Warm 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.
Rockland Warm Springs comes up less than a hundred feet from King Lane in Power County, about seventeen miles from American Falls. The water is body temperature, neutral soaking warmth. No land owner or access status is recorded, so the name on the deed is the first thing to check.
Dry, moderately high country with snow in the three-foot range. The spring is essentially at the roadside; the approach is a matter of steps. Pipeline Campground is the closest listed, around thirteen or fourteen miles off. The land unit and its designation go unrecorded, and nothing says what surrounds the source.
The winter months are the ones flagged best. The water is mild and needs no temperature caution. Pipeline Campground is the one campground on record. Nothing on fees. The chemistry on file is from 1972. Find out before visiting if the ground is public, because the record is silent on it.
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 Rockland Warm Springs.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 127 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 34% 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.
The water at Rockland Warm Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.6). It is notably rich in magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief) and chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
Campground rules and regulations are posted at the site. There are no dumpsters on site, visitors must pack in and out their trash. Campsites: 6 semi-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. This site is equipped with a parking lot, picnic tables, fire rings, vault toilet, horseshoe pits, and boat ramp/docks accessing the Snake River below American Falls Reservoir Dam at the site. There a...