Geyser Ranch Springs
A second Geyser Ranch Springs point, a short distance from its sibling in White Pine County, and about as warm: seventy degrees, roughly room temperature. Ely is some forty-three miles away. The record for this one is thinner than for the first. There is a photo on file. Water chemistry is absent, as is any note on ownership or access.
The last tenth of a mile is on foot from a road with no name attached to it. At six thousand feet this is high country, and winters stack up close to a yard of snow. Ten inches or so of rain and melt makes for a normal year. What the ground around the spring looks like goes undescribed, so the photo is your best preview.
The cold months, December into February, are what the record recommends. Expect to leave the vehicle and walk a little. Nobody is named as owner, and access has not been recorded one way or the other, so treat it as unverified until someone local tells you otherwise. No fee is mentioned. The temperature figure has no sample date attached, so take it as approximate.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
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
- 59 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 31% 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.
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Geyser Ranch Springs sits at 6,000 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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Geyser Ranch Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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