Upper Warm Spring, Warm 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.
Upper Warm Spring, also recorded as Warm Spring, sits in Eureka County about sixty miles from the town of Eureka. The water runs at soaking temperature, a little above body heat. The record names no landowner and says nothing about public access. A USGS sample from August 1967 came back mildly alkaline, with modest dissolved solids.
High basin country. Short walk, roughly five hundred yards, from a road with no name in the record. Snow totals top three feet in a normal winter and the year averages around fifty degrees. Dry otherwise. No campground is on file, and neither is a land unit.
December through February rate best, though snow at this elevation may complicate the walk. The water is comfortable and carries no burn risk. Ownership and access are unknown; check before going. No fee noted. The chemistry is from 1967 and no later sample exists on file.
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 Upper Warm Spring, Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 48 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 11% 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 Upper Warm Spring, Warm Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.1) with 267 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Upper Warm Spring, Warm Spring sits at 6,552 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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