Hot Pot (Blossom 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.
Hot Pot goes by Blossom Hot Springs as well. It is a hot spring in Lander County, about 22 miles from Battle Mountain, with water at the upper end of what the hot range covers, too much for a soak without cooling. No land owner or access status appears in the record.
It is a bit under half a mile's walk from the nearest road, unnamed in the record. Mid elevation basin, dry, with a foot or two of snow in winter. A 1974 sample read mildly alkaline. The record shows no campground, and the USGS site number is the only other identifier on file.
Midwinter is the listed season. Hot enough to burn at the source, so test before touching. Access is not recorded; assume you may need permission. Chemistry dates from 1974. Nearest town is Battle Mountain. No fee is on record. The two names may help when asking locals where it is.
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 Hot Pot (Blossom Hot Springs).
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 18 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 26% 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.
The water at Hot Pot (Blossom Hot Springs) is slightly alkaline (pH 8.0).