Blue Joint Hot Springs 2
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
The second Blue Joint point, also on Bitterroot National Forest ground in Ravalli County, Montana, and at the same warm temperature as the first. It lies a touch lower. Public access is open and the Forest Service owns the ground. Hamilton is about forty miles off, which makes this a long way into the hills for water that will not quite reach body heat.
Roadside, under three hundred feet from the road, which our data leaves unnamed. Over ten feet of snow per season, so the approach is a summer and fall proposition regardless of what the best-months list says. Fales Flat Campground is about five miles away, and there is no fee on record for the spring itself.
Winter is what the best months on record says. No chemistry; nobody has sampled this one either. The first Blue Joint spring needs a short walk and sits a little higher; this one you can reach from the car. Bring a thermometer if you care about the exact reading.
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 Blue Joint Hot Springs 2.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 581 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 22% 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 Fales Flat Campground is a group facility on Nez Perce Fork of the Bitterroot River. It is also well equipped for equestrian campers. The campground provides access to a variety of hiking and horseback riding trails in the area, as well as a variety of historic sites that denote the presence of the Nez Perce many years ago.Recreation Fly fishing and wading in the Nez Perce Fork, which runs alongside the campground, are also popular activities. A variety of trails and unimproved road...
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