Buckhorn Hot Mineral Wells
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Buckhorn Hot Mineral Wells?
No. Buckhorn Hot Mineral Wells is closed to visitors.
Buckhorn Hot Mineral Wells, also called Buckhorn Baths, sits in Maricopa County, Arizona, roughly eight miles from Gilbert. Wikipedia describes it as a hot spring east of Mesa. The record here carries no temperature. Land owner and access status are blank. What is certain is the position and the name.
Roadside, twelve feet from the road, which is about as close as a spring gets. Low desert, hot year averages, very little rain and no snow. The Larry Forbis Overnight Group Site is the nearest camping listed, some twelve miles out. No managing unit is named.
No best months are given; the climate row makes the case for winter on its own. Because nothing says who owns the wells or if the public may enter, find out its current status before going. No fee is recorded. Temperature is unverified in this file, so the hot in the name rests on Wikipedia's word.
Wikipedia also knows it as Buckhorn Baths and as Buckhorn Mineral Wells, and locates it seven miles east of Mesa, Arizona.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Buckhorn Hot Mineral Wells.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 10 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northeast
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.
That's close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 6% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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