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 Springs, Elko County, twenty-one miles out of Wells, with water hot enough to hurt, about one twenty-six. The record lists no owner and no access status. A tenth-mile walk separates it from the road. The nearest camping on file is Slide Creek Campground, eighteen miles or so distant.
Unnamed road, then a tenth-mile walk, at fifty-six hundred feet. Snow totals run around thirty-three inches over winter, with a bit under a foot of rain and melt across the year and a yearly mean under fifty degrees. No photo on file, nothing describing the ground.
December through February on record. Hot enough to scald with prolonged contact, so test with a hand before a foot. Ownership is blank and so is access; treat the spring as unverified and ask. Slide Creek Campground is the listed camping, a long way off at eighteen miles. No fee noted. No water chemistry either, and the temperature carries no date.
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 Springs.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 61 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 twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 69% 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.
Slide Creek Campground is located at the trailhead for Slide Creek which accesses the Jarbidge Wilderness(hiking, horse trips, hunting, backpacking), has one single restroom, horse corrals (no horses allowed in the campground), 6 sites, no water, and is free. Not reservable.Located at the springs that feed Slide Creek, and the trailhead for the Slide Creek trail. Aspen and subalpine fir trees provide shade and shelter at the campsites.Appropriate for small trailers, good for tent camping.
Hot Springs sits at 5,645 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 23% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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