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.
A Warm Spring in Nye County, a long way from anything, better than forty miles from Tonopah across the Tonopah Field Office's BLM range. The land is open to the public. OpenStreetMap knows it by the same name the federal survey uses. There is no temperature on file at all, measured or described, so the name is the only hint about the water and it should not be trusted for a soak.
The spring lies a bit under half a mile from Gabbs Pole Line Road, a walk across open ground on public land. The country is mid elevation desert for Nevada, with light snow in winter and very little rain in any season. Dry, then, with a stretch of winter white.
Months are unranked here. Given the thin snow and low rainfall, winter closures are less of a worry than in the higher ranges, though the dirt roads out this way can still go soft. Open access, no fee noted. The water is a complete unknown. Go expecting a survey point, and if it turns out to be more than that, the thermometer you brought will tell you.
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 Warm Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 67 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 38% 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.
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Warm Spring sits at 5,556 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 22% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Warm Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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