Campbell Ranch Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Campbell Ranch Springs are tepid springs on BLM land in White Pine County, twelve miles or so from McGill. The water reads in the mid-seventies on file, cool for a soak, fine for a wade on a hot afternoon. Public access is open. The ranch in the name is not described on record, and the springs themselves carry no other name.
Roadside, a little over two hundred feet from a road with no name attached, on the BLM's Bristlecone Field Office. At sixty-one hundred feet this is high basin country with winters that bring over three feet of snow and a foot of total precipitation. East Creek Campground, fourteen miles out, is the only camping the record lists.
The coldest months rank highest on file, though for tepid water at this altitude the season is a judgment call. No fee is listed. Camping at East Creek is a real drive away, so plan on a day visit or a long way in. The reading is a USGS listing.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 77 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 28% 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.
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Campbell Ranch Springs sits at 6,100 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 24% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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