San Jacinto 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.
Scalding. That is the first thing to know about San Jacinto Ranch Spring, which comes out well past the point where water burns skin. It sits in Elko County about eight miles from Jackpot. The record names no land owner and gives no public access status, and with ranch in the name you should assume someone may hold it privately until you learn otherwise.
Ten feet. That is the gap between the spring and the nearest road, so if the road is open to you the spring is too. No road name appears in the record. The ground sits a little over five thousand feet up, winters bring around forty inches of snow, and the year as a whole runs on the dry side. Neither a land unit nor a designation is listed, and there is no campground in the file.
The cold months are what the record points to. Temperature is the hazard: water this hot burns on contact, so keep children and dogs well back from the source and do not try to soak without a way to cool it. Access is the other open question. Nobody is listed as owner. Ask around Jackpot before treating this as somewhere you can visit.
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 San Jacinto Ranch Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 50 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 67% 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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San Jacinto Ranch Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully.
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