Gandy Warm Springs
Gandy Warm Springs is an open-access spring on BLM ground administered from Fillmore, filed under White Pine County with McGill given as the closest town at zero miles. The water is warm and notably fresh, with dissolved solids low enough to count as good water by desert standards. It is below soaking heat.
A walk of around a fifth of a mile from an unnamed road. Elevation is a little over five thousand feet, dry basin country with a couple feet of snow most winters and under ten inches of precipitation. No campground is named in the record. The Fillmore Field Office is the managing unit.
Winter is listed as best. No fee shows up, and access is open. Water analysis dates to 2005, and it shows very low dissolved solids. Nothing on file describes the spring itself, so go ready for anything. McGill is the town the record gives.
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 Gandy Warm 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 north.
- Highest ground nearby
- 535 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
A slice through the ground from south to north, 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 7% 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.
The water at Gandy Warm Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.5) with 297 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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