Indian Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Indian Hot Springs sits in Hudspeth County, Texas, roughly 25 miles out from Sierra Blanca. Hot is the right word for it. The recorded temperature runs well past anything a body could sit in. It surfaces beside Indian Hot Spring Road. The owner is unrecorded, and so is whether visitors may come. There is no photo of it either.
Indian Hot Spring Road runs within about three hundred feet, so it is a roadside location. Elevation is not on the record. The climate is desert dry, seven inches of rain in a year and snow you could miss. No land manager or campground is listed.
Winter comes out ahead of the other seasons. Anything more than a quick touch of this water burns. Test carefully and find somewhere it has cooled before you get in. Who owns the land is anyone's guess, so ask before you leave the road. Chemistry and camping are both unrecorded.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the northeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 230 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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 2% 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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Indian Hot Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water runs hot, so extra hydration is key. Bring sun protection for exposed soaking.
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