Big Blue Spring
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Big Blue Spring is a USGS-listed spring in Eureka County, Nevada, about thirty-five miles from the town of Eureka. The record tags it as warm but carries no measured temperature, so nobody should plan a soak around it. Owner and access status are both blank.
It sits close to a road, roughly 250 feet off, though the road itself goes unnamed on the record. The elevation puts it in Nevada's high basin country, nearly six thousand feet up, where precipitation is scant and winter brings a couple of feet of snow.
There is no best season on file and no temperature, so treat this as a point on a map until someone checks it in person. Ownership and access are unrecorded, which means the land could be private. Check before you go.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 111 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 3% 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.
Big Blue Spring sits at 5,820 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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