Laguna Pueblo Seeps
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
The Laguna Pueblo Seeps are a set of warm seeps on Laguna Pueblo land in Valencia County, with Los Chavez the nearest listed place and close by. The water is in the low eighties, below what most people would soak in. Tribal land, access unknown. No water chemistry exists in the record, so the temperature is the only measurement on file.
About six tenths of a mile from the nearest road, on the pueblo's ground at around 5,400 feet. Mid elevation, modest snow, a dry year. The word seeps in the name is the only hint at form, and the record does not describe it further. Laguna Pueblo holds the land.
Contact Laguna Pueblo about access before planning anything. There is no analysis on file, and no sample date, so the temperature figure is all you have to go on and its age is unknown. No campground listed. December through February is the season the record favor. Los Chavez sits right there, so this is hardly remote.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 226 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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.
Laguna Pueblo Seeps sits at 5,448 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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