Monte Neva Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Monte Neva Hot Springs is a scalding source in White Pine County, about eighteen miles from McGill, sitting at six thousand feet. Water this hot cannot be entered at the source. Nothing on file identifies an owner, and nobody has put public access on record either way. It is a USGS thermal site with a 1992 water sample attached.
A fifth-mile walk from the road, which the record leaves unnamed. High basin country, cold through the year, with a snowy winter of three feet or more and eleven inches of precipitation. No land owner is on file, and no management unit or designation either, so who you would ask about the place is itself unknown.
Scalding water. Treat the source as something to look at from a distance, and assume any outflow is hot until you have tested it with care. Best months on file: December, January, February. That means snow on a short walk in. East Creek Campground is around fourteen miles away. Access is not on record; ask before you go. The pH sample is from 1992.
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
- 21 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 34% 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.
The water at Monte Neva Hot Springs is slightly acidic (pH 6.6).
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Monte Neva Hot Springs sits at 6,017 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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