Geyser Ranch Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Forty-four miles out of Ely, Geyser Ranch Springs is a tepid spring in White Pine County, a long way from anywhere. Tepid here means the water would feel about like a cool bath. No owner is named for the land and there is no word on public access, so assume it could be private until you learn otherwise.
Roadside: some 200 feet from a track with no name on file. The elevation is upland, and winters here drop a fair amount of snow, with a dry year otherwise. A 1985 sample tested close to neutral. No campground is listed, no photo, no second name. The USGS number and the 1985 sample are what the record holds beyond the name.
The listed months are the winter ones. Access is blank, so find the owner before you go. The water is tepid at best and the reading dates from a decades old survey, so the spring may feel different now. Nothing about a fee is recorded.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 58 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 49% 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.
The water at Geyser Ranch Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5).
Geyser Ranch Springs sits at 5,950 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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