Manse Ranch Spring
Manse Ranch Spring, eight miles out of Pahrump in Nye County, runs in the mid seventies and has a picture on record. It is on the USGS list. Nobody is listed as owner, and the access status is empty. The nearest listed camping is Cathedral Rock Picnic Area, sixteen miles away.
Roadside, forty-odd yards from a road with no name listed, at under twenty-eight hundred feet in the low desert. Snow is a rounding error here, two inches in a winter, and the year sees six inches of precipitation. The record gives no land unit.
The months flagged as best are the winter ones, which is sensible given how hot the desert runs in summer. The stop is roadside. Private ground is possible; the record does not say. The water is tepid, safe to touch. Cathedral Rock Picnic Area is the closest camping on record.
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 Manse Ranch 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 54 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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 72% 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.
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Overview Cathedral Rock Group Picnic Area is located at the top of beautiful Kyle Canyon in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, just 30 miles from Las Vegas. Visitors enjoy hiking, horseback riding and scenic driving in this forested desert oasis.Recreation No trails can be accessed through the Picnic Area at the present time. Trails may be found at the Forest Service Trailhead on the other end of Cathedral Rock Picnic Area. The new Spring Mountain Visitor Center is a 15 minute dri...
Manse Ranch Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Bring sun protection for exposed soaking.
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