Douglas 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.
Douglas Hot Springs is a warm spring six miles out of Douglas in Converse County, Wyoming. The water on file is in the mid eighties, bathwater warm. No landowner and no access status appear in the record, so the first job is finding out whether you are allowed there.
Reaching it from the nearest road is a walk of a few hundred feet, though the road itself is unnamed on file. The record has no elevation. Climate is dry, under a foot and a half of precipitation, with around four and a half feet of snow in a winter. Curtis Gulch Campground is the nearest camping listed and it is more than twenty miles away.
Ask around in Douglas before you drive out, since access is not on record. The season on file is winter. At this temperature there is no heat hazard. No fee, no chemistry, no elevation in the record, so treat the listing as a thermal point that needs confirming on the ground.
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 Douglas Hot Springs.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the south.
- Highest ground nearby
- 240 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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 1% 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.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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