Turkey Creek Hot Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Scalding and three miles from the nearest road, Turkey Creek Hot Spring sits in the Gila National Forest, Grant County, about 26 miles from Silver City. The walk in starts at Turkey Creek Road. Public access is open. No water chemistry is on record and there is no USGS site number, so the temperature stands alone as the measurement.
A three mile walk from Turkey Creek Road into national forest at mid elevation, a little above 5,000 feet. Modest snow, nine inches or so, and moderate rain. Forks Campground is seventeen miles away. The Forest Service is the land owner and there is no fee on file. The route and the spring go undescribed.
Scalding at the source, around 165, so do not enter the source water; it would burn. It is a hike in, on open access. No chemistry on file. Winter rates best. Forks Campground, a long way off, is the one campground on file.
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 Turkey Creek Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 693 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 12% 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.
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.
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