Renova 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.
Renova Hot Springs flows hot on BLM ground in Jefferson County, Montana, under six miles from Whitehall, and access is recorded as open. OpenStreetMap spells it Renova Hotspring. The water is beyond comfortable soaking at the source. The Dillon Field Office manages the land, which is designated public. The USGS tracks it as a site with a 1977 sample.
Point of Rocks Road passes a couple hundred feet away. Mid-elevation, dry country with under four feet of snow most winters and light annual precipitation. Toll Mountain Campground, the nearest listed, is about twelve miles out. The land is public and undesignated beyond that.
Open access on BLM land. Hot enough to need care; check the water first. Winter gets the nod in the record, and the light snow helps. Toll Mountain Campground is the place to camp per the record. No fee is recorded. The chemistry dates to June 1977 and includes iron; the temperature was taken that day too.
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 Renova Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 441 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 53% 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 Renova Hot Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5). It is notably rich in sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation).
Toll Mountain campground is located on the eastside of the Highland Mountain Range, approximately 20 miles east of Butte. The campground has 5 units that will accommodate trailers up to 22 feet and also has a group picnic area. The campground is close to a creek and offers a quiet forest setting for weekend getaways.
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