Hot Springs Near Glacier
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Hot Springs Near Glacier?
USGS lists Hot Springs Near Glacier as a warm spring, with no temperature on record. It sits deep in the backcountry. It's on National Park Service land. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
A warm spring inside Denali National Park, in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, near a glacier, as the name says. Access is open, with the National Park Service as land manager. The record gives no temperature and no sample, only the word warm. The road distance, about ten miles, is the one hard figure the listing holds.
Under a thousand feet of elevation, in the Denali backcountry, beyond the reach of any road and with no route described. A fairly dry climate for Alaska, with modest snow and an annual average that stays under freezing. No facilities are recorded. No community distance worth repeating is on file.
No best months. Open access on park land, backcountry rules in force. Warm and unmeasured. Treat the spring as incidental to whatever else brings you this deep into the park, and check with Denali on permits before setting out. Nothing about fees or camping is recorded for the site, and no cabin either.
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
- 60 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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.