Faywood 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.
A dozen or so miles from Hurley in Grant County, Faywood puts out water hot enough that it would need cooling before anyone got in. Wikipedia lists other names for it, Bull Spring and Hudson Hot Springs among them, and puts it directly south of City of Rocks State Park. Public access is missing from our record, though the spring has a long human history.
The spring is a stone's throw from the road, sixty-some feet. Wikipedia places it two miles northeast of US 180 and half a mile west of NM 61. Mid elevation desert at about 5,000 feet, dry most of the year, and snow is rare enough to be a novelty. The land owner is blank in the record.
Hot water, somewhere around 130, so test it before touching. Access and ownership are unrecorded, which means a phone call or a look at county records before a trip. The water sample is from 1974. The cool months are the pleasant ones in this corner of the state. No campground is listed within range.
People have been coming to this water since the time of the Mimbres culture, according to Wikipedia. Over the years the same spring has been known as Bull Spring and as Hudson Hot Springs, and Wikipedia adds Mimbres Hot Springs to the list.
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 Faywood Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 79 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 37% 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 Faywood Hot Springs is neutral (pH 7.1) with 384 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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Faywood Hot Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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