Hobo Hot Springs
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Hobo Hot Springs sits on the Stewart Community, tribal land in Douglas County a couple of miles from Indian Hills. The water is hot, above what most people soak in without cooling. Public access is unknown, and because the ground is tribal, that matters more than usual. Snow is heavy here in winter.
Roadside, with the nearest road about 250 feet away, in upland country where winters bring heavy snow, close to six feet a season; the year is on the wet side. The land designation is tribal. No chemistry is on record and the road is nameless in the record. A USGS site number is attached.
The listed months are December through February, when snow is a given. At this temperature skin needs only moments to burn, so test before you touch. Ask the Stewart Community before visiting, since access is unknown and the land is tribal. No fee listed. Camping is available at Zephyr Cove RV & Campground about eight miles out.
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 Hobo Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 65 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 62% 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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