Hot Springs (Big Bend National Park)
Hot Springs in Big Bend National Park is a former thermal resort, now National Park Service land, reached by car along Hot Springs Road. Access is open. The record carries no temperature for this site, so it cannot tell you how hot the water runs; the name and the resort history tell you people once bathed in it. Sanderson is the nearest town on record and it is 76 miles away, which says something about how remote this corner of the park is.
Hot Springs Road ends a few hundred feet from the spring, so this is a roadside stop by the record's classification. Low desert, very dry, around seven inches of rain in a year and essentially no snow. The Rio Grande Village Group Campground is about two and a half miles away.
No best months are on file. Access is open inside the national park, and park entrance rules apply. Rio Grande Village has a group campground two and a half miles off. Since the record gives no temperature here, check the water before settling in. There is no chemistry on file.
The site went by Boquillas Hot Springs and Langford Hot Springs as well, and it operated as a thermal spring resort before the land became part of Big Bend National Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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 (Big Bend National Park).
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
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 153 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 5% 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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Overview The Rio Grande Village Group Campground sits on the banks of the Rio Grande, the International Boundary between the United States and Mexico. The four group campsites are great options for groups of nine people or more and is one of the most popular campgrounds in Big Bend National Park. It is located close to Boquillas Canyon and Hot Springs, and acts as a launch point for visitors accessing the river or the endless miles of backcountry roads. Rio Grande Village has an outstanding v...
Hot Springs (Big Bend National Park) is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Bring sun protection for exposed soaking.
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