Potts Ranch Hot 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.
Potts Ranch Hot Springs sits in Eureka County about 47 miles from the town of Eureka, high up at over 6,600 feet. The water is hot, past the point of a comfortable soak at the source. No owner and no access status appear on the record. A USGS site number is attached, so the temperature is a measured one.
Essentially drive-up, under forty feet from the road, and that road carries no name on file. This is high cold country, three feet and more of snow through the winter and under ten inches of precipitation in a year, a dry place punctuated by a snowy season.
The listing favors deep winter, but at this elevation that is also when the three feet of snow falls. Hot enough that you would let the water cool before sitting in it, if sitting is allowed at all. Access unknown, owner unknown. No campground listed. No water chemistry on record either, and the measurement has no date.
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 Potts Ranch Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 52 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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 27% 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.
Potts Ranch Hot Springs sits at 6,615 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 26% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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