Lyons Hunting Lodge 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.
Lyons Hunting Lodge Hot Springs sits in Grant County, hot and far from any listed town; Arenas Valley, the nearest, is close to thirty miles away. Mid 120s, per a 1957 measurement. Land owner and access are unrecorded, and the name hints at a private lodge, though the record says nothing about one. Alkaline water with sulfate and chloride.
About 300 feet off East Fork Road, at mid elevation near 5,800 feet. Real winter snow here, a foot and a half in an average year, and more rain than the desert lowlands get. Forks Campground is a mile and a half away, which counts as close for a hot spring.
Too hot for direct soaking, so test before entering. The owner is absent from the record; check, especially given the name. Forks Campground is under two miles off. Winter is the season on record as best, and snow will be a factor on East Fork Road. The temperature measurement is nearly seventy years old.
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 Lyons Hunting Lodge Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 499 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 54% 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
The water at Lyons Hunting Lodge Hot Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 8.1).
This campground features beautiful cliffs along the West Fork of the Gila River.This campground is a great place to stop on the way to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (15 miles north). Overnight camping is allowed in the upper portion of Forks; however, the lower portion of the Forks Recreation Site along the West Fork of the Gila River is day use only.
Lyons Hunting Lodge Hot Springs sits at 5,800 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.
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