Booker Hot Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
In the Toiyabe National Forest of Mineral County, Nevada, a bit under twenty miles from Hawthorne, Booker Hot Spring runs at the top edge of what most people can soak in, hot enough that you would want to ease in slowly. Public access is open on Forest Service ground. No USGS site number or water chemistry is filed, so the temperature stands alone.
A tenth of a mile from the road, a short walk. The spring sits in national forest at middling elevation, and winters here put down close to three feet of snow. Summer is dry. No designation beyond national forest, and no fee in the record. The spring itself goes undescribed.
December through February are the listed months, and they are also the snowy ones, so the road may be the limiting factor. Hot enough that a long soak can overheat you; get out when you feel light-headed. No campground is listed. The temperature has no sample date attached, so treat it as approximate and test before you get 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 Booker Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 266 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from north to south, 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 51% 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.
Booker Hot Spring sits at 5,493 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 22% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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