Rush 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.
Rush Warm Spring is a tepid spring in Blaine County, about twenty miles from Bellevue and a bit under half a mile off Austin Road. The water is only a little above room temperature, a long way from a hot soak. Nothing is on record about ownership or public access, and no campground is listed near it.
Dry ground, moderately high, with scant precipitation and a snow season that rarely tops four feet, so the ground is open most of the year. The approach is a walk of under half a mile from Austin Road. Neither a land owner nor a management unit is recorded, and the record has nothing to say about the surroundings or the source itself.
Winter is the flagged season, which for water this cool seems a stretch. Warm weather would serve it better. No camping is on file anywhere near it. No fee in the record. Settle the question of land ownership before visiting. The temperature comes from a USGS site record and there is no date 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 Rush Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 161 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 93% 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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