Casey Springs
Casey Springs comes out scalding in Pershing County's Black Rock country, sixty-odd miles from Lovelock, on open BLM land. Over two hundred degrees at the source, per the record. Nobody soaks in that. What the record gives you is a very hot spring on open public land with a photo attached. The USGS carries a site number for it.
The closest road is a little under half a mile off, a short walk, and the record cannot name it. Management sits with the BLM's Black Rock office. Elevation is a bit under four thousand feet, dry desert, seven inches of precipitation, a foot of snow most winters.
Winter is what turns up as the prime season. At the source it scalds on contact, so treat it the way you would a hot stove and stay well clear of steaming ground and runoff. The land is open, with no fee or campground recorded. Whether anything downstream cools enough to soak in goes undescribed.
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 Casey 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.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 101 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 18% 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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Casey Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully.
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