Bog 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.
Bog Hot Springs, or Bog Hot to the people who live near it, is a hot spring in the Bog Hot Valley of Humboldt County, Nevada. Winnemucca is the nearest city in the file, close to ninety miles away. The water comes out hot, hot enough that you cannot sit in it at the source. Ownership is not on record. Neither is access.
A road comes within roughly two hundred fifty feet. The valley sits at middling elevation for northern Nevada, with winters that stack up two feet of snow, then a climate that is dry the rest of the year. No land manager or unit appears in the file. Nothing describes what is built, if anything, at the spring.
Winter is the listed season, and that same season brings the snow, so the two pull against each other. Water this hot will burn you if you get in where it surfaces. Test it, and look for where it has cooled. The chemistry dates from 1974, alkaline and fairly low in dissolved solids. Access and land status are unrecorded; verify both. Nothing on camping or fees.
The local name is Bog Hot, and the valley it sits in is the Bog Hot Valley.
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 Bog Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 49 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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 55% 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 Bog Hot Springs is alkaline (pH 9.0) with 293 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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Bog Hot Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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