Zolezzi Spring
Three feet from South Virginia Street. That is how close Zolezzi Spring sits to the road, in Washoe County about eleven miles from Sparks. The water is a good soaking temperature, a little above body heat. Nobody is named as owner, and access is unrecorded. Chemistry has not been sampled. There is a photograph.
It is roadside in the fullest sense, a few feet from South Virginia Street. Elevation is around forty-five hundred feet. Winters bring forty-some inches of snow, and precipitation is on the higher side for Nevada. What land unit it falls in, and under what designation, has not been recorded. Mount Rose campground is listed about eleven miles off.
The record flags winter. Roadside access, right off the street. With no owner on file, look for signs and respect private property. Mount Rose is the camping listed, about eleven miles. Dip a hand in before you commit, since the temperature figure carries no date.
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 Zolezzi 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 35 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 2½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 97% 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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Overview Mount Rose Campground is conveniently located between Reno and Lake Tahoe just off scenic Mount Rose Highway. Visitors love the campground for its proximity to excellent hiking trails and recreational opportunities at Lake Tahoe.Recreation Hiking is the most popular pastime at Mount Rose. Several trails, including the Tahoe Meadows, Tahoe Rim, Mount Rose Wilderness and Mount Rose Summit Trails, begin very close to the campground.Facilities Mount Rose contains single and double-family...
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