Crescent Valley Hot 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.
Crescent Valley Hot Springs sits twenty-eight miles from Battle Mountain in Lander County, Nevada, beside a road called Dean Dann Spa Road. The water comes out very hot, on the edge of scalding. The record has nothing on ownership or access. A 1974 sample found the water a little on the acid side, with calcium and sodium among the minerals. The USGS also tracks it.
Dean Dann Spa Road runs within about a hundred sixty feet of the spring. No elevation is on file for this one. Snowfall runs to twenty-seven inches across a winter, and rain is scarce otherwise. Land owner, land unit and designation are all blank, so who controls the ground is an open question.
Winter is the period the file recommends, snow and all. The water can burn; feel for cooler spots before any part of you goes in. Access is unknown, so find out who owns the land. Fees and camping do not appear in the record. The chemistry is from 1974 and should be taken as old.
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 Crescent Valley Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 254 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 32% 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.
The water at Crescent Valley Hot Springs is slightly acidic (pH 6.6). It is notably rich in magnesium (known for muscle relaxation and stress relief).