Deniktow Ridge Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Deniktow Ridge Hot Springs?
USGS lists Deniktow Ridge Hot Springs as a hot spring, with no temperature on record. It sits deep in the backcountry. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
Deniktow Ridge Hot Springs is a thermal point in North Slope Borough with a hot qualifier and no measured temperature on file. The record gives Barrow as the nearest town without a distance worth quoting. Land ownership and public access are both unrecorded. Nothing about a pool or any development appears on file.
Eleven Mile Landing Strip Road is the nearest drivable thing on record, nearly thirteen miles away, which makes this a backcountry objective. It sits low, under four hundred feet. Cold, with around four feet of snow each year and not much precipitation otherwise. Nor is there a campground on record.
No best months are on file. Without a temperature you cannot plan a soak, and without access information you cannot assume you may go. Start by confirming both. Count on a long overland approach from the landing strip road.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the south.
- Highest ground nearby
- 130 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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.