Walleys Hot Springs
Walleys Hot Springs lies in Douglas County under four miles from Minden. Source water is scalding, far above soaking temperature. No landowner is named, and the access question is blank, so check before counting on it. A USGS sample from 1978 showed strongly alkaline water with iron. Heavy snow country: close to seven feet in a typical winter.
Sixty-some feet off the road and you are there. Whatever that road is called, nobody wrote it down. Elevation is middling. Snow does the talking, around seven feet a winter, and the year comes in wet at about twenty-two inches. Zephyr Cove RV & Campground, six miles away, is the one place to camp that shows up. Owner and land unit are both blank.
December through February are rated best even with the snow. Scalding at the source, and nothing on file says what, if anything, has been done to cool it for use. Access is not on record, so find out before you arrive. Camping at Zephyr Cove, six miles out. No fee 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 Walleys 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
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 614 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 46% 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.
The water at Walleys Hot Springs is alkaline (pH 9.2).
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Walleys 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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