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 comes out of the ground hot, a few degrees under the point where water burns skin on contact. It sits in Lander County, Nevada, a little under thirty miles from Battle Mountain, the closest town on file. Neither an owner nor a public access status has been put on record. A USGS thermal entry exists for the spot.
The spring lies a couple hundred feet off Dean Dann Spa Road, so it counts as a roadside stop. The valley floor here is mid-elevation high desert, dry most of the year, with about ten inches of precipitation. Winters drop around two feet of snow over the season.
The record favors December through February for a visit. Drive up, walk a short way. No campground is listed anywhere near. Water this hot will scald; test it before you put a hand in, and do not assume any pool is cooler than the source. Landowner and public access both sit blank on file, so find out before you go.
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
- 209 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.