Dimonte Spring
Dimonte Spring is a hot thermal point in Washoe County, Nevada, roughly eleven miles from Sparks. Hot, per the record, well past anything you would sit in without the water cooling first. The owner is unknown to the record, as is the access status. It appears in the USGS thermal site list.
A few hundred feet of walking gets you in from the road. The record leaves that road unnamed. The spring sits around 4,500 feet. Winters are snowy, around three and a half feet over the season, and the area gets more precipitation than most of the state, sixteen inches.
Winter months are listed as best. Expect a short walk in. Hot water: test before touching and assume it can burn. Mount Rose campground is the closest on file, a little over eleven miles off. Access and ownership are blank, so confirm both before heading out.
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 Dimonte 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 20 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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 97% 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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Dimonte Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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