Steam Vents At Roaring Mountain
Steam vents, as the name says, on Roaring Mountain in Yellowstone. No water temperature is on record, which makes sense for vents that give off steam, and there is no pool described. Gallatin County, Park Service land, open, with West Yellowstone the nearest town on file. A USGS site number and a 2007 chemistry sample are attached. This is something to watch from the path.
A tenth of a mile from the road, though the record leaves the road unnamed. Elevation about 7,500 feet. Cold on record, with an annual average in the mid thirties and snowfall around eleven and a half feet. Precipitation moderate. Yellowstone National Park land, no other designation listed. Roaring Mountain is the named feature the vents belong to.
Steam vents are hot ground. Keep to the walkway. No best months are listed, so summer, when the roads are clear, is the sensible call. Indian Creek Campground is about seven miles off, the nearest camp on record. No fee on file. Temperature is not recorded, so do not assume anything about the water.
The USGS carries a site for this point, and the chemistry on file was sampled in September 2007.
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 Steam Vents At Roaring Mountain.
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 southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 339 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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.
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 19°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 80% 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 Steam Vents At Roaring Mountain is slightly acidic (pH 6.0).
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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...
Steam Vents At Roaring Mountain sits at 7,540 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 30% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Steam Vents At Roaring Mountain is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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