Seep
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
This one is a seep, a USGS thermal point in Clark County a few miles outside Moapa Valley. The water is tepid, the kind you would notice as warm on your hand and nothing more. No one has put an owner or an access status on record for it, so treat it as a dot on the map until you know more.
It sits on the low desert floor a stone's throw from Cooper Street. Winters are mild here and snow is close to nonexistent. Rain is scarce too, six inches or so in a typical year. Summers run hot, which is why the record points to December through February as the comfortable time to go looking.
Winter is the season. Access is roadside, close enough that you park and you are there. Echo Bay Campground is the nearest place to camp on file, about eighteen miles off. Land ownership and access rules are both blank, so check before you cross anything. The temperature comes from a USGS reading, and a seep this cool may not repay the detour.
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 Seep.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 29 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, 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 53% 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.
Overview Echo Bay Campground is located in the northern end of the park along the Overton Arm of Lake Mead. It’s open year-round and features paved sites that can accommodate tents or RVs, along with tables, fire pits and/or grills. Restrooms and water spigots are located throughout the campsite. Temperatures usually surpass 100F (37C) degrees June-August. In May and September, daytime highs are around 90F (32C). October-April, temperatures are much cooler. Lows can dip to freezing temps Dece...
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