Truth Or Consequences
The Truth or Consequences thermal point sits in town, ten feet from Grape Street, part of the Hot Springs Artesian Basin, in a town that used to be called Hot Springs, New Mexico. Hot, a little above 110. Very mineral heavy, with total dissolved solids over 2,000. The sample is from 1939. Access is unrecorded. The record ties the point to no particular bathhouse.
Roadside in town, low desert around 4,200 feet. Hot and dry, almost snowless, with eight inches of rain in a year. Grape Street is the named road. No owner or unit is listed. The Wikipedia entry describes a spring system in the artesian basin around the town, and this point is one location within it.
Cool it or test it before soaking. Which bathhouse, if any, this corresponds to is not stated, so treat the coordinates as the artesian basin in general. Winter in Truth or Consequences is mild, and that is the rated season. No campground listed. The chemistry is from 1939.
Truth or Consequences was formerly known as Hot Springs, New Mexico. The springs here are part of the Hot Springs Artesian Basin system in Sierra County, per Wikipedia.
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 Truth Or Consequences.
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
- 59 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 32% 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 Truth Or Consequences contains 2420 mg/L total dissolved solids. It is notably rich in calcium (may support bone density and joint health), sodium (supports circulation and skin hydration), and chloride (natural antiseptic with skin health benefits).
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Truth Or Consequences is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key.
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