Steamboat Springs
Steamboat Springs here is the Yellowstone one, a roadside hot spring beside the East Entrance Road. Near-boiling on record. You can stand on the shoulder and look at it; the record puts it under forty feet from the road. Gallatin County, Park Service land, open. West Yellowstone is the town listed as nearest.
Thirty-eight feet off the East Entrance Road, so no walk to speak of. Close to 7,800 feet of elevation. Snowfall on record runs around twelve feet, precipitation moderate, annual average in the mid thirties. Yellowstone National Park. The East Entrance Road is the only named landmark on file. Nothing is recorded about a pool or a runoff channel.
Keep your distance from the water, it runs close to boiling. The three winter months are what the record picks, so on the East Entrance Road the question becomes whether the plow has been through. Nearest camp anyone logged is Threemile at seventeen miles. No fee listed.
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 Steamboat 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 east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 137 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 25% 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 Threemile Campground is located just three miles from the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park, and 50 miles from the full service gateway community of Cody, in northwestern Wyoming. The area is an ideal destination for a family getaway, with many opportunities for outdoor recreation. Hard-sided camp trailers and RVs are required.Recreation Great opportunities for hiking, fishing, scenic driving and wildlife viewing are available around the campground. The North Fork of the Sho...
Steamboat Springs sits at 7,816 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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Steamboat 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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