Coyote Hole 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.
Off Lockes Road in Eureka County, Nevada, on BLM ground run by the Tonopah Field Office, Coyote Hole Spring runs hot, a little past the top of the soaking range. The town of Eureka is nearly eighty miles off, and nothing closer shows in the file. Access is open. The USGS has a site record for the spring, though nobody has published chemistry from it.
Lockes Road passes about two hundred feet from the spring, so the approach is a matter of pulling over. High desert, dry for most of it, with roughly a foot of snow each winter. Plain public ground with no designation attached. The record leaves the spring itself undescribed, so what you will find at the end of those two hundred feet is an open question.
The file lists December through February. Hot enough that you test it first and keep soaks short. Access is open. Nothing on fees, nothing on camping. Chemistry is absent. Eureka is the only town named, and it is far enough to matter when planning.
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 Coyote Hole Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 66 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 41% 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.
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