Devils Hole
Devils Hole belongs to Death Valley National Park and sits in Nye County, Nevada, a bit over twenty miles from Pahrump. The Park Service manages it. Water temperature on record is warm, right at the low end of soaking range. Access is listed as open, which here means you can visit the site, with park rules applying.
Park at Devils Hole Road and walk a tenth of a mile. The ground is low desert, about 2,300 feet, with four inches of yearly rain and essentially no snow. National park land, so everything is under federal protection.
Cool season, December through February, is what the record recommends. Short walk from the road. Death Valley National Park rules apply, so check the park's guidance for this site before you go. No campground is listed near the site. Temperature is warm, no scald risk.
Devils Hole is a unit of Death Valley National Park, under the National Park Service. The USGS also keeps a monitoring record for the site.
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 Devils Hole.
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
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 367 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 47% 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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