Hot Springs
Hot Springs, the spring, is in Madison County, North Carolina, eleven miles or so from Marshall. The water is at the warm end of hot, a soaking temperature for most people. Nothing on file says who owns it or if the public may use it. No chemistry either. What is there is a temperature, a position by the road and a campground nearby.
Roadside, under a hundred feet from the roadway. Low country. The climate is mild and the year is wet. Snow is light. Rocky Bluff Campground is under three miles off. Land owner and unit are unrecorded.
the record gives winter as the season, and the mild climate makes that workable. Rocky Bluff is the camping on record. Fee and access are unrecorded, so learn who owns the spring first. The temperature reading is undated, so verify before counting on a soak.
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 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.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 288 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 below the US average of 65. It's higher than at 0% 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.
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Opening Fri, May 27th 2022 through Sun, September 4th 2022When Open, campsites are available by reservation only and must be made at least 2 days in advance of desired arrival date. Combination gate code given upon reservation, through email. District office cannot give out code in the event of loss of number. *Please make note- unavailable campsites are listed as "FF" on recreation.gov. This does not mean there are any "first come, first served" campsites. There are no FF campsites on Rocky...
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