Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Churchill County has a second Hot Springs on record, at the same distance from Fallon as its neighbor, sixty-six miles, on BLM land under the Mount Lewis Field Office, and open. The water is hot, about a hundred and fifteen, which is more than most people want for a long soak. From the road it is under five hundred feet on foot. No water chemistry or photo is on file.
Public land at sixty-one hundred feet. Winter is cold and long up here, with nearly four feet of snow over the season and eleven inches of precipitation across the year. No road name is recorded. The Mount Lewis Field Office manages the ground. There is nothing on record about the spring's form.
The record favors the cold season, December to February; at this elevation confirm the road is passable before setting out. Open access, BLM. The record lists no fee and no campground. At one-fifteen the water can scald with time, so ease in and do not stay long at the source. The temperature has no sample date.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 6 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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 50% 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.
Hot Springs sits at 6,100 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 24% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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