Eagle Creek Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Eagle Creek Hot Springs?
Yes. Eagle Creek Hot Springs has natural, undeveloped pools that run at 97°F. Soaking is free. It's a short walk from the road.
A warm spring in Greenlee County, six miles or so from Morenci. The water sits at body temperature, so you could stay in it as long as you liked. That is about all the good news here. No owner is named, and nothing at all is said about access. There is no chemistry and no photograph, though the USGS inventory does list it.
The nearest road, unnamed on file, passes within a few hundred feet, so it is a short walk from wherever you park. It sits at a middling height in country where winters drop a little snow, rarely much, and around eleven inches of rain fall. On average the year runs in the mid sixties. Owl Creek Campground sits roughly nine or ten miles away.
The record favors winter, December through February. Reaching the spring takes a short walk from an unnamed road. Stay at Owl Creek Campground. The big unknowns are ownership and access, both blank, so find out who holds the ground before visiting. The water is warm and safe to touch, with no heat caution needed. No fee information is on file.
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
- 750 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 38% 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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Located in the Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area in Arizona, Owl Creek Campground has seven campsites, picnic tables, grills, ramadas, trash receptacles, and restroom facilities available to make your stay more enjoyable. There is no potable water available at the campground. Three of the campsites are pull-through sites, and four are pull-in sites, making the campground suitable for trailers and RVS. The campground is a stop on the Black Hills Back Country Byway, and it is also j...
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