Minnehaha Springs
Minnehaha Springs is a barely-warm mineral spring in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, about eight miles from Marlinton. Seventy degrees on record, right on the line between tepid and barely warm. Roadside. No owner or access status in the record, though the water has been sampled and shows near-neutral chemistry.
Ninety feet to the nearest road, which goes unnamed on the record. Elevation is about twenty-three hundred feet. Fifty inches of precipitation in a normal year, with a few feet of snow, make this a damp, cool spot by the record. Pocahontas Campground is a few miles off.
Pocahontas Campground is about four miles away. the best months on record says winter; snowfall is moderate. The water will not burn you, and it is well short of soaking temperature. Find out about ownership and access before going; neither is recorded. Marlinton is the town to ask in.
USGS sampled Minnehaha's water in May 1991 and found it near neutral with iron among the minerals.
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 Minnehaha 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
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 46 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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.
The water at Minnehaha Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.4) with 167 mg/L total dissolved solids.
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With a convenient location just off State Route 92 this campground is great for families and outdoor enthusiasts. Two Lick Trailhead is located within the campground and providing easy and accessible access. Also each campsite is furnished with a fire ring, picnic table, and lantern ring.
Minnehaha Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear.
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