Pyramid Island Hot Spring
Pyramid Island Hot Spring sits on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation in Washoe County, tribal land, about twenty-four miles from Spanish Springs. No temperature has been recorded for it, so nothing here should be read as a promise of soaking water. the access on record says unknown. On tribal land, the tribe's rules govern, and you need to ask.
Half a mile on foot from a road that goes nameless in the record. Elevation is middling, around four thousand feet, dry at ten inches of precipitation, with a foot and a half of snow over a typical year. The land is within the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation, and the record's land designation is tribal land.
Before anything else, contact the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe about permission. Best months are not recorded. Neither is a temperature. The record shows no campground and no fee. Treat every practical question as open. The half-mile walk in is the one thing the record does describe.
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 north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 12 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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 17% 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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