Hot Springs On Big Windy Creek
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Big Windy Creek, in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, has a hot spring on Bureau of Land Management ground with open access. Deltana is the nearest community on file and it is nearly a hundred miles away. The record describes the water as hot with no temperature measured. This is interior Alaska public land with nothing developed around the spring in the record.
Nine and a half miles to the closest road, which carries no name in the record. Call it backcountry. The spring sits near 1,500 feet in dry interior country where the yearly average stays below freezing and snowfall is modest. Precipitation totals are low. The BLM Eastern Interior Field Office manages the area.
No best months are given. With the average temperature under thirty degrees, summer is the obvious guess, though nothing on file confirms it. The water is hot by the record's word only. No campground is listed. Access is open and there is no fee recorded.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 620 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the south
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.