Joaquin Miller 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.
Joaquin Miller Hot Springs sits in Grant County about eight miles from Canyon City, with water at a comfortable soaking temperature, a little above a hot bath. USGS keeps a site here. Who owns the ground, and on what terms you can visit, is not recorded. No photo on file.
Canyon Creek Road is a tenth-mile away, so the approach is brief on foot. The spring sits at nearly four thousand feet in country that gets about six and a half feet of snowfall a year and a fair amount of rain. No land unit is named. Grant County is cooler on average than the desert counties to the south and east.
On record, the three winter months do best, which means snow on the approach. Fall Mountain Lookout Cabin is the listed camping, four and a half miles or so. No burn risk at this temperature. Ownership is unknown; look for posting. Canyon City is the closest supply town.
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 Joaquin Miller Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 440 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 58% 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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