Dixie Hot Springs
Dixie Hot Springs sits off Dixie Valley Road in Pershing County, roughly 34 miles from Lovelock. The water comes out scalding, well past the point where skin can take it, so this is a thing to look at and test with a stick before anything else. Nobody is listed as owner and there is no access status, which in this part of Nevada should make you cautious about where you are standing.
Dixie Valley Road comes to within a couple hundred yards and you walk the rest. The spring lies in basin country at middling elevation. Winters bring some snow, the year is dry. A 2009 water sample put the water on the alkaline side with a fair load of dissolved solids, and iron among the minerals.
The cold months are listed as the best time. Reaching the spring is a short walk off the road. At these temperatures the water will scald on contact, so keep dogs and kids well back from where it surfaces. Ownership and public access are blank in the record. Confirm you are allowed there.
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 Dixie 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 57 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from north to south, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 88% 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 Dixie Hot Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 8.5) with 648 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
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Dixie Hot Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully.
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