Hot Springs Near Ophir Creek
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Hot springs near Ophir Creek, in the Bethel Census Area, are on BLM public land and open to anyone who can get there. Temperature is 145 degrees at the source, scalding. Bethel is about seventy miles away. The record gives no elevation and no road name; the nearest road is seven miles off, and what sort of road it is stays unsaid.
Bureau of Land Management land under the Anchorage Field Office. Backcountry from a road without a name on file. No elevation on file. Snow comes in at five to six feet a year, with a cold, fairly dry climate: mean around thirty, precipitation a little over two feet.
The BLM lists it open; no fee. Midwinter gets the nod on file, December through February. The source scalds; no cooler pool is on record. No campground on file. From the road in, nothing on file says what those miles are like.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 250 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the north
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.
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