Spencer Hot Springs
Spencer Hot Springs sits on Mount Lewis Field Office land, BLM and open, in Eureka County about fifty miles from Eureka. The source water is scalding, far too hot to touch. The record says nothing about cooler pools.
Under two hundred feet off a road that the record does not name. Mid-elevation basin. Snow comes most winters, close to three feet of it, with around nine inches of yearly moisture. There is a photograph on file.
Listed best months are December through February. Scalding source: test before any contact and keep a wide margin. The 1973 sample showed neutral water with moderate dissolved solids and measurable iron. That sample is fifty years old. Fee and campground are blank. Nothing newer on chemistry exists in the record.
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 southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 46 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 49% 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.
The water at Spencer Hot Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.4) with 800 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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Spencer Hot Springs sits at 5,660 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 23% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Spencer Hot Springs 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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