Starkey Hot 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.
Eight miles or so from Council in Adams County, Starkey Hot Springs comes out hot, above 130 degrees, a couple hundred feet from a road. No land owner and no access status are in the record, so it is not known if this is public or private ground. The temperature was measured by the USGS in 1972, a long time ago for a reading to stand unrevised.
Around 3,300 feet, low for an Idaho hot spring. The road is close, about 240 feet, so this is roadside. Snow is moderate, ninety inches in an average winter, and the year averages in the upper forties. Precipitation is middling. no road name is on record, and so are land unit and designation.
Winter months are the listed best season. Evergreen Campground is about four miles off. The water reading is over fifty years old, from June 1972, and the chemistry then was alkaline. Water above 130 degrees will scald; test it. Ownership is not recorded, so confirm you are allowed there before walking down.
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 Starkey Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 325 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 27% 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 Starkey Hot Springs is alkaline (pH 8.6).
Overview Evergreen Campground is situated next to the Weiser River just off Highway 95 between the towns of Council and New Meadows, Idaho. Fishing and hiking are popular activities. Once on-site, you may be able to pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app, and the Scan and Pay feature. If this option is available, you will need to first download the free Recreation.gov mobile app https://www.recreation.gov/mobile-app prior to your arrival as some re...
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