Dyke 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.
Dyke Hot Springs comes out too hot to touch on BLM land in Humboldt County, Nevada, sixty miles from Winnemucca. Access is open. The ground is under the Humboldt River Field Office. The source temperature is the thing to know: well past scalding.
A bit under five hundred feet on foot, starting from a road not named anywhere on file. Open public land. The elevation is around four thousand feet, dry country with nine inches of precipitation and a couple of feet of snow across a winter.
Best in the cold months, December through February. Short walk in. Scalding water; do not step into anything you have not tested, and keep kids and pets well back from the source. Public BLM land, no permission needed. No campground on file, and Winnemucca is sixty miles off.
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 Dyke Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 205 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 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.