Mcgill Spring
Mcgill Spring sits less than a mile from the town of McGill in White Pine County, a warm spring at six thousand feet whose water is comfortable on the skin, a long way from hot. The nearest road is McGill Pool Road, and the spring is close enough to it to count as roadside. Public access is not recorded.
McGill Pool Road passes about a hundred feet from the spring, which puts the water a short stroll from the car. This is high, cold country. McGill averages around fifty degrees over the year, and three and a half feet of snow is normal. Nothing in the record names an owner or a managing agency.
Midwinter is the season on record, which in White Pine County means snow and cold air against warm water. Bird Creek Campground is the camping on file, under eight miles away. Learn who owns the ground before you go; it is not recorded, and the site sits close to a town.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
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 east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 88 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from north to south, 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 51% 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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Mcgill Spring 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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Mcgill Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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