Gas Vents At Horseshoe Hill
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Gas Vents At Horseshoe Hill is a thermal point you hike to, Gallatin County, Wyoming, inside Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Loop Road being about two and a half miles back. Hot is how the record lists it, without a measured temperature. A 2006 water sample came back close to neutral and picked up calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulfate, chloride and iron. West Yellowstone is around eight and a half miles off, going by the record. National Park Service land, access open.
The walk in is a hike of about two and a half miles from the Grand Loop Road, and the record gives no trail detail. Elevation sits near 7,650 feet. Climate on file is cold with around a hundred and thirty-eight inches of snow a year. National Park Service land inside Yellowstone.
The best months are not recorded. Given the snow total, winter is a hard time for a hike this long, so look up the park's trail status first. Indian Creek Campground, about five miles off, is the nearest place to camp. The temperature is unmeasured. Do not walk up to the vents hoping for a soak, and stay out of the water.
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 Gas Vents At Horseshoe Hill.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 224 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.
Landsat's thermal camera passed over on a clear winter day, December 3, 2022. This spring's heat shows up from about 440 miles up. The brightest yellow marks the warmest ground, roughly 10°F warmer than the land around it.
Drag to compare. The view is about 2½ miles across, and each thermal pixel covers roughly 300 feet of ground, so individual pools blur into one warm patch.
Thermal: Landsat 8/9 surface temperature, USGS (public domain), via Microsoft Planetary Computer. Aerial: USGS The National Map. More springs seen from space.
That's about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 70% 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.
The water at Gas Vents At Horseshoe Hill is slightly acidic (pH 6.6).
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Overview Located about eight miles (13 km) south of Mammoth Hot Springs on the road to Norris, Indian Creek Campground—elevation 7,300 feet (2225 m)—sits near the base of the Gallatin Mountains and offers breathtaking views of Electric Peak. The area offers easy access to fishing and hiking. The campground is away from the main road and provides a quieter, more primitive, experience than many other locations. For reservations at the campgrounds managed by Yellowstone National Park Lodges (Fi...
Gas Vents At Horseshoe Hill sits at 7,640 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 31% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Gas Vents At Horseshoe Hill is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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