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Alamos Spring

Cibola County, New Mexico · Near Laguna

35.0600°N, 107.1330°W · 5,822 ft

72°F 63°F air · Good soaking weather 5,822 ft Unknown Short Walk DESG

Researched & maintained by Armen Suny · Updated September 2026

Aerial view of the ground around Alamos Spring

The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.

Alamos Spring sits on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Cibola County, New Mexico, about fifteen miles from Laguna, and the water is tepid. Access: unknown, on tribal land. Warm on the skin and nothing past that. No chemistry or sample date exists in the record, and no campground is anywhere in it.

Location

26 miles from Los Lunas, NM

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The nearest road is a few hundred feet off and unnamed. It is mid-elevation dry ground, under ten inches of precipitation in a year, and snow hardly figures. No campground is listed. Tribal land, reservation unit, with nothing in the row about a trail or a fee. Nothing describes the approach.

Unknown access on tribal land means permission first. The record leans toward winter, and the dry, mild climate makes it reasonable. No camping is on record. No fee. The temperature is an undated figure. A soak is not in the cards with water this cool.

Terrain

USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.

Setting: Open ground; Flat, open ground all around.
Highest ground nearby: 45 ft above the spring; Within a quarter mile, to the east

Cross-section through the spring

A slice through the ground from north to south, about 0.6 miles end to end.

Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.

Heat Below

95 milliwatts per square meter of heat flow

That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 40% of the springs on this site.

US avg Here

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.

Monthly Climate

32°

Jan

39°

Feb

49°

Mar

56°

Apr

64°

May

77°

Jun

78°

Jul

76°

Aug

69°

Sep

57°

Oct

44°

Nov

33°

Dec

Annual Precip: 8.5 in Annual Snow: 10.7 in

Best Time to Visit

January Air 32°F · Water 72°F · +40° contrast

December Air 33°F · Water 72°F · +39° contrast

February Air 39°F · Water 72°F · +34° contrast

January offers 46°F more contrast than July

Current Conditions

63°F

W 16.6 mph 88% Good soaking weather

Today 79° Low 61° Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 33% precip

Wednesday 78° Low 59° Showers And Thunderstorms 87% precip

Thursday 77° Low 59° Showers And Thunderstorms 87% precip

Friday 78° Low 57° Chance Rain Showers then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 53% precip

Saturday 78° Low 56° Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms 23% precip

Data from National Weather Service

Mile-High Advisory 5,822 ft

Alamos Spring sits at 5,822 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 23% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.