Giocoecha Warm Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Giocoecha Warm Springs lives up to the middle word. The water is warm, the kind you would call pleasant on a summer day, though the winter months are the ones listed as best. It sits in Eureka County, 28 miles or so from the town of Eureka. Nothing about ownership or access appears in the record.
A walk of a few hundred feet takes you from the nearest road to the water. The country is upland basin, high enough that winter piles up around three feet of snow over the season. Rain is sparse the rest of the year. the record names no road and no land unit, and lists no campground.
Winter is the listed window. Check that the road in is passable after snow. Access and ownership are unrecorded, so ask locally before you set out. USGS supplied the temperature; expect warm, nothing hotter, and a single reading at that.
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
- 27 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 24% 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.
Giocoecha Warm Springs sits at 5,880 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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