Las Vegas Springs
Las Vegas Springs is a USGS thermal record in Clark County, six miles out of downtown Las Vegas. The water is warm the way a swimming pool in May is warm, nowhere near hot. Nothing on file states if the public can get to the water, and no land manager is named. That close to a major city, the gap matters a great deal.
Two hundred feet or so separate the spring from the nearest road. The ground here is the floor of the Las Vegas Valley, a little above two thousand feet, where five inches of rain makes a normal year and snow seldom sticks. Summers are hot. Winters stay mild. No designation or land unit is attached to the record.
Skip summer. The cool months, December into February, are the only time water this mild feels like a reward in this valley. Red Rock Canyon Campground is about eleven miles away if you want to camp. Access and ownership are both blank in the record. Confirm both before you make the trip.
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 Las Vegas 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.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 28 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 57% 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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Overview Red Rock Canyon's standard, RV, and group campsites are located in the stunning Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, an approximate 20 mile drive from "The Las Vegas Strip." Visitors enjoy hiking, rock climbing, bike riding and scenic driving in this unique Mojave Desert environment. Note: If visitors would like to visit the scenic drive, they must have a separate timed entry reservation for each day they plan to enter the scenic drive. Reservations are required October 1 to...
Las Vegas Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Bring sun protection for exposed soaking.
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