Trudau Warm 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.
Trudau Warm Springs comes up tepid in Madison County, Montana, around ten miles from Virginia City. Warm to the touch, nowhere near soaking heat. Owner and chemistry are empty fields here, and access goes unmentioned. What it has is a name, a temperature and a position less than a mile from a road, which is enough to put it on the map and not much more.
Garden Creek Road, seven tenths of a mile off, is the road you start from. Middling elevation. Snow comes to four feet and a bit in a normal winter, with a dry year otherwise. Axolotl Cabin, about thirteen miles away, is all the record lists for camping. Neither land unit nor trail appears.
The window given is midwinter. Axolotl Cabin is the camping on record, and it is not close. Nothing is recorded for a fee, and the temperature comes with no sample date attached. Find out who owns the ground before you set out. Water this cool is not something anyone soaks in.
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 Trudau Warm Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 232 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 52% 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 The Dillon Field Office is unable to make reservations for you. Please call Recreation.gov (877-444-6777) to book a reservation or book online. Axolotl Cabin is located approximately 14 miles southwest of Ennis, Montana, in the foothills of the Gravelly Range. The cabin provides access to a variety of outdoor recreational activities and breathtaking views as it peers over the Madison Valley. The cabin is at an elevation of about 7,000 feet and is adjacent to Axolotl Lakes Wildernes...
Trudau Warm Springs sits at 5,679 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 23% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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