Flynn Ranch Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Flynn Ranch Springs is a tepid spring in Eureka County, Nevada, about forty miles from Eureka, at a little over six thousand feet. Nobody is recorded as owner. Access is not on file. The water is warm enough to notice and no more.
You walk the last third of a mile in, from a road whose name nobody recorded. High country, forty inches of snow in a winter and eleven inches of precipitation across the year. Cold months depend on how that snow sits.
The record favors winter, December to February. Expect a short walk. Nothing here is hot enough to hurt. Ownership unknown; sort that out first. No campground listed.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 384 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 33% 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.
Flynn Ranch Springs sits at 6,095 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 24% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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