Hot Spring
Another Hot Spring in Lake Mead NRA, Clark County, this one thirteen miles or so out of Boulder City and a little warmer than its neighbor, low eighties. OpenStreetMap uses the same plain name. A 2008 sample found it heavy in dissolved solids and the analysis picked up iron. The Park Service manages it and access is open, reached by a hike of about 1.5 miles.
Low desert, a little over eight hundred feet, inside the Lake Mead recreation area. The road the record measures from is unnamed. Zero snow in an average winter. Rain comes to about five inches a year and the yearly average is in the low seventies, so the cool months are short. The walk and the spring itself are not described.
December through February is the window on record. Plan the hike for early or late in the day outside those months. Open access on National Park Service ground, no fee noted, no campground named. The 2008 chemistry is not old as these things go. Low-eighties water will not hurt anyone.
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 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 427 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 55% 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 Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5) with 3000 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health), sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration), and sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation).
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