San Francisco 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.
San Francisco Hot Springs, in Greenlee County about thirty miles from Clifton, comes out hot enough to need care, past the comfortable range. The road is close. Nothing on file names an owner or says whether the public can use it. No campground is listed. No photo yet.
Roadside, about sixty yards from an unnamed road. Elevation is low foothill. Winter snow is light to moderate and rain is modest; the average temperature is mild. No managing agency is named, so there is nothing to tell you who looks after the ground.
Hot water, so test before you get in and keep to the cooler edges. The three coldest months get the best-season mark here, and with light snow the roads should be fine. Temperature and chemistry both trace to 1974. No campground is on file. Access is unrecorded; ask locally.
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 San Francisco Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 244 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 7% 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 San Francisco Hot Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.3). It is notably rich in chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
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