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.
Soaking warm, high nineties, and on record as such. This Hot Spring near Wells in Elko County sits on public land under the BLM's Wells Field Office, access open, about eighteen miles from Wells and under half a mile off the road. OpenStreetMap lists it under the same name. There is no water chemistry on file and no photo.
The road is unnamed on file and the spring is four tenths of a mile from it, a walk over BLM ground at roughly fifty-four hundred feet. Snow adds up to about three feet over winter. Precipitation for the year is eleven inches. Average temperatures are cool. The closest camping on file is Angel Lake, a Humboldt-Toiyabe campground, fifteen miles off.
The record picks the cold months, December through February, and high-nineties water is at its best then. The walk in is short. No fee is listed. Camping at Angel Lake, roughly fifteen miles. Access is open and the land is BLM. No date accompanies the temperature.
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.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 69 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 45% 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.
Overview Angel Lake Campground is located next to beautiful Angel Lake, high on the East Humboldt Mountain Range. It sits at an elevation of 8,400 feet, just 12 miles from the city of Wells, in northeast Nevada. Visitors enjoy canoeing, fishing, hiking and viewing wildlife.Recreation Angel Lake offers great canoeing and fishing for rainbow and brook trout. Smith Lake Trail begins at the campground entrance. Facilities The campground offers single and double campsites, some of which have lake...
Hot Spring sits at 5,452 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 22% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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