Wabuska Hot Springs
Fifteen miles out of Yerington, Wabuska Hot Springs is one of the boiling ones. The temperature on file sits near the boiling point, which rules out touching it, never mind sitting in it. Lyon County. Neither owner nor public access status appears in the record. A 1978 water analysis turned up iron. Someone has photographed it, and the spring picks up a trickle of searches.
Park on a road that has no name in the record and walk the last five hundred feet or so. The ground sits around forty-three hundred feet. Dry climate, light snow, so weather rarely blocks the approach. Land unit, designation, campground: all blank. Nothing describes what surrounds the source, and no second name is given.
The file picks winter. Boiling water burns on contact, so keep well back and watch for steam. Short walk in. With the owner unrecorded, check for signs. No camping is listed. The 1978 analysis is the newest data on file, so expect the figures to have drifted.
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 Wabuska Hot Springs.
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 15 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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 59% 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 Wabuska Hot Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.9). It is notably rich in sulfate (traditionally used for skin conditions and inflammation).
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Wabuska 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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