Terteling 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.
Terteling Hot Springs sits on the edge of the Boise metro area, under four miles from Garden City in Ada County, roughly a hundred feet off a road. The water is soaking warm, a bit over a hundred degrees. There is no land owner or access status on file, and for a spring this close to a city assume nothing about being allowed to visit until you know.
Low elevation, a bit over 3,000 feet, in a mild climate: under thirty inches of snow and about seventeen of precipitation. The yearly average is in the low fifties. Road to spring is about a hundred feet. Neither a road name nor a land unit is recorded, and no fee is noted, which says nothing either way about private ground.
The best season on record is winter. Shafer Butte campground is ten miles off. No USGS sample is attached, so the temperature figure has no date or source on it. Ownership and access are unknown; find out before going. No fee is listed.
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 Terteling Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 285 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 35% 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.
Overview Shafer Butte is located atop the scenic Boise Ridge Mountains, near Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, at an elevation of 7,000 feet. Visitors enjoy hiking and biking on various trails in the surrounding area, and simply relaxing and taking in the area's beautiful views.Recreation Popular activities in the area include hiking and mountain biking, the Mores Mountain Trail begins in the campground. This 2-mile interpretive nature trail is family friendly. Facilities Shafer Butte con...
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