Salmon Falls 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.
Salmon Falls Hot Spring is a scalding source in Twin Falls County, nine miles or so from Buhl and essentially on the shoulder of North 1000 East. The water emerges hot enough to burn on contact. The record does not say who owns it or if the public can use it.
Low desert, under three thousand feet, with very little precipitation and almost no snow, so weather is rarely what keeps anyone away. The spring is at the roadside, six feet off North 1000 East by the record. The record lists no land owner and no campground. What surrounds the outlet is not described.
Winter months are flagged as best. The source will scald. Do not enter it, and keep clear of the outlet itself. No cooled pool is on record, so assume there is nowhere safe to sit. The chemistry on record is a 1979 sample. Before you go, find out if this is private ground. Nothing on fees either.
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 Salmon Falls Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 86 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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 43% 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at Salmon Falls Hot Spring is alkaline (pH 9.4).
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