Hot Springs Near Makushin Volcano
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Hot Springs Near Makushin Volcano?
The water leaves the ground at 94°F, a comfortable soaking temperature. It sits deep in the backcountry. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
Near Makushin Volcano, about fourteen hundred feet up, a spring comes out of the ground at 94 degrees, soaking warm. The town on file is Dutch Harbor. Neither owner nor access status is recorded, and the closest road is under six miles away across backcountry ground. No pool is described on file.
High ground near a volcano, with serious snow: the total on file is over sixteen feet a year. Precipitation is heavy and the average hovers in the mid thirties. The road is unnamed; the approach is backcountry and the land manager is blank. Nothing on record says what lies between road and spring.
The water is soaking warm if anything holds it, which the record leaves open. Access status is blank, so nobody is listed to ask. Late winter carries the best-month flag, January through March. No campground or fee is listed. A handful of miles from a road, route unknown.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 352 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.