Kilo Hot Spring
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Kilo Hot Spring sits on Bureau of Land Management ground in Alaska's Denali Borough, handled out of the Central Yukon Field Office, and the closest town on the books is Healy, roughly 144 miles away. Nobody has logged a water temperature for it, so treat the word hot in the name as a label and nothing more. Access is open. Beyond that the record holds a name and a position, a very long way from anything.
Twenty-eight miles separate the spring from the nearest mapped road, which makes this backcountry in the plain sense. The land is public, with no designation attached. The elevation is middling. Winters here average well below freezing, and the snowpack over a season comes to around four feet. Precipitation for the year is light.
No season is named anywhere, and with averages that cold the window is whatever the snow permits. Getting there means a long overland approach with no trail and no campground on record. Check the land status with the Central Yukon Field Office before committing. Temperature is unverified, so leave soaking out of the plan.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 132 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
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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Kilo Hot Spring requires a hike to reach, so pack light but prepared. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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