Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Fifty miles out of Battle Mountain, on BLM ground run by the Mount Lewis Field Office, this Hot Springs is public land and open to anyone who makes the drive. Do not plan on soaking. The source runs at one hundred eighty degrees. It has no recorded elevation and no water chemistry, so what you know going in is the temperature and that you are allowed to be there.
The road nearby carries no name, and from it the spring is a tenth of a mile's stroll. Winters bite in the back basins of Lander County. More than a yard of snow falls in a year against eleven inches of total precipitation, so most of what comes down comes frozen. The parcel counts as ordinary public land with nothing special designated.
The cold months are on file as best, which says something about how hot this source is. Snow can close unpaved access for stretches, so call the Field Office before a winter run. Keep hands and pets out of the water; it is scalding. Nothing on record describes a pool, a fee or camping nearby.
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
- 8 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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 12% 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.
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Hot Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully.
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