Hot Spring On Unimak Island
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Hot Spring On Unimak Island?
USGS lists Hot Spring On Unimak Island as a hot spring, with no temperature on record. Access is restricted. Reaching it takes a hike. It's on US Fish and Wildlife Service land. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
An unmeasured hot spring on Unimak Island, within the Alaska Maritime refuge in Aleutians East Borough. The record says hot and stops there; no degrees, no sample date. Access is restricted. Akutan is the nearest community listed, around sixty miles away. Hot without a number could be anything, and the refuge is the only body that could say more.
Low coastal ground on refuge land, under a hundred and fifty feet above the sea. The closest road is an Army jeep trail left from World War II, and from it the spring is a walk of under four miles. Heavy snow in winter, steady rain otherwise. Fish and Wildlife has the say on the land.
No best-months entry. Restricted access, so the refuge comes first. Without a temperature you cannot plan a soak, and an unmeasured hot could mean scalding, so if you reach it treat the water as dangerous until tested. No fee or camping information exists in the record.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 37 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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.