Five Sisters Springs
Five Sisters Springs is a group of scalding springs off Firehole Lake Drive in Yellowstone National Park. County is Gallatin, state is Wyoming, and the town on file is West Yellowstone, under thirteen miles away. The measured temperature is well above anything a body tolerates. You come here to look. National Park Service land, open to anyone.
Firehole Lake Drive gets you within a third of a mile, and the rest is a short walk. The springs sit at about 7,300 feet, so the air is thin. The climate record shows a hundred and forty inches of snow in a year and a cold average. The land is Yellowstone, managed by the National Park Service.
The record's best months run December through February, the heart of the snow season, so whatever plan you make should start with the park's current road and trail status. Short walk from the road, public access. Camping on file is the Big Springs group area, out at Island Park, a bit over twenty miles. Scalding water. Keep back and keep kids and pets out of reach of it.
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 Five Sisters 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 southwest.
- Highest ground nearby
- 247 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 86% 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 Big Springs Group Area is located 22 miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana in beautiful Island Park, Idaho at an approximate elevation of 6,300 feet. Visitors love Island Park for its world-class fishing and outstanding scenery and wildlife viewing opportunities.Recreation Big Springs is the headwaters of Henry's Fork and is one of the largest springs in the country. Henry's Fork is considered one of the best fly-fishing streams in the nation. Fishermen cast for rainbow and brook...
Five Sisters Springs sits at 7,340 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 29% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Five Sisters Springs is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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