Apache Tejo Warm Spring
Under four miles from Hurley, in Grant County, New Mexico, Apache Tejo Warm Spring holds water at the low edge of soaking warm, body temperature or thereabouts. That puts it in the range where sitting in it is at least plausible, if there is a place to sit. The owner and access columns are empty, and so is chemistry. No campground is listed near it.
Two tenths of a mile separates the spring from the nearest road, an unnamed one as far as anyone has noted. A short walk. The ground is mid-elevation. This is dry, mild country, a foot of precipitation annually and very little snow. No campground appears in the record, and no land unit either.
The months given are the winter ones and the climate suits it. Warm enough for a soak in principle; the record says nothing about a pool. No camping listed. No fee. Nobody has logged access, so check ownership. The temperature is undated, so call it a rough figure.
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 Apache Tejo 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.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 55 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 6% 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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Apache Tejo Warm Spring sits at 5,367 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 21% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Apache Tejo Warm Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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