Crystal Pool
Crystal Pool sits on Ash Meadows, the national wildlife refuge out in Nye County, Nevada, twenty-two miles or so from Pahrump, and the water comes up a bit under body heat. Access is restricted. US Fish and Wildlife holds the refuge, so the rules are theirs. A 1998 sample found the water neutral, with a fair load of dissolved solids and some iron. There is a photograph on the entry.
From Spring Meadows Road you walk around four hundred fifty feet. Low desert, almost no snow, four inches of rainfall per year, and summers that run hot. The land is a national wildlife refuge, which is the reason access is restricted, and what form the restriction takes is not spelled out.
The winter months are the ones on file. Access is restricted, so find out what the refuge allows before planning anything; soaking may not be among the permitted uses. No fee or campground is in the file. The water is warm, with no burn risk. Pahrump is the town to work from.
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 Crystal Pool.
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
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 20 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 39% 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.
The water at Crystal Pool is neutral (pH 7.1) with 433 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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