Gambles 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.
Gambles Hole is a soaking-temperature spring on public BLM land in Elko County, Nevada, with Jackpot twenty-nine miles away. The water on record is hot-tub warm, comfortable soaking range. Wells Field Office land, open to anyone.
The road that gets you there appears on file without a name, a hundred-odd feet from the water. Elevation is about 5,200 feet and winters are heavy for Nevada, fifty inches of snow, and sixteen inches of precipitation annually. Public land.
Winter is listed as the best season, and with four feet of snow a season, getting there in winter depends on the road being open. Roadside once you arrive. Bostetter Campground is about twenty miles away, the nearest on file. Soaking temperature, no burn risk. Open access, no fee on record.
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 Gambles Hole.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 57 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 67% 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.
Bostetter Campground is composed of 10 individual units and 1 group unit. It is located in a stand of Lodgepole pine and stretches along Cottonwood Creek with one site tucked up above in some Aspen trees. The campground is pack it in and pack it out. The area is suitable for trailer and tent camping. Anglers can take advantage of a nearby stream. Campground amenities toilets.
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