Home Station Ranch Hot Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Home Station Ranch Hot Spring comes out hot, in the mid-one-thirties, too hot to sit in as it rises. It sits in Lander County on ground the Bureau of Land Management administers, about forty-two miles from Battle Mountain, and access is recorded as open. Jersey Valley Road runs within forty feet of it. The water analysis dates to June 1980 and reads a hair under neutral.
Roadside in the plainest sense: Jersey Valley Road and the spring are a few strides apart. The ground belongs to the BLM and is handled by the Humboldt River Field Office. Elevation is middling for the state, around forty-five hundred feet, with a couple of feet of snow over a winter and precipitation of about ten inches annually. No photo, no description of shape or surroundings.
Winter is what the record favors, December through February. You can drive right up. The water will burn you, so test it before any part of you goes in, and keep dogs and children back from where it surfaces. The ground is open public land. No fee is recorded and nobody has named a campground. The chemistry behind all this is forty-five years old.
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 Home Station Ranch Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 66 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 35% 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 Home Station Ranch Hot Spring is neutral (pH 6.8).
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Home Station Ranch Hot Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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