Burrell 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.
Burrell Hot Spring lies a mile and a half from Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, and its water sits a little above body temperature, soaking warm. It is on Parker Ranch, land held by a nonprofit under a private conservation designation, and the public access status is listed as unknown. That one word is the thing to take away.
A road runs past within two hundred feet or so, so physically it is easy to reach. The ground is private conservation land, which is a different matter from public land, and the file does not say what the holder allows. Low desert, very dry, a few inches of snow most winters, and hot in the summer months.
Best months on record are December through February. The water temperature is comfortable; no burn risk. Access is unknown and the land is a conservation holding, so contact the ranch or the managing group before visiting. No fee is filed and no campground, and no sample has ever been taken. Beatty is right there for supplies.
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 Burrell Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 100 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 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.