Tschanne 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.
Tschanne Hot Spring is a soaking-temperature spring, around 109 degrees, on BLM acreage in Gooding County, about fifteen miles from Gooding. The Shoshone Field Office manages the ground and access is open. The road is numbered 450E and the walk from it is about 500 yards. No campground is in the record for it.
Low and dry, around 3,300 feet, with about 21 inches of snow and a foot of precipitation a year and temperatures averaging mid fifties. Open BLM land, public, with nothing more specific attached. Road 450E is the access road; the spring is about 500 yards off it. No fee appears in the record. The water sample dates to 1999.
The record favors winter, and it is mild here. No camping is on record. The temperature and chemistry are from a September 1999 USGS sample showing mildly alkaline water. Hot end of soakable, so ease in. Check the sample date against what you find, because twenty-odd years can change a spring.
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 Tschanne Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 222 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 24% 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 Tschanne Hot Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.3).
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