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 Aqua Hot Spring?
No. Aqua Hot Spring is on private land with no public access.
Aqua Hot Spring, about eight miles from Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, has a USGS sampling site and a 1975 chemistry record. Little else. Temperature, elevation, owner, access: all blank. The name promises heat; the record does not back it up. Mount Princeton campground is under three miles away, which is the most useful thing on file.
The spring is right beside a road, under forty feet from it, though the road is unnamed on file. High Colorado climate: average temperature around 39, five feet of snow in an ordinary year, summers brief. The August 1975 sample found a modest mineral load with calcium and iron among the constituents.
No best months listed. Snow makes winter a hard time to stand beside any road here. The nearest camping is Mount Princeton. No fee on record. Because temperature is blank, treat the hot in the name as unverified until someone measures it. Access unknown; a spring this close to a road could be on private ground, so look for signs.
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 Aqua Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 53 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from west to east, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about twice the US average of 65. It's higher than at 91% 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.
The water at Aqua Hot Spring contains 143 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Overview Mount Princeton Campground is located in beautiful Chalk Creek Canyon in central Colorado. This popular facility is within 4 miles of a private hot springs resort, making it an ideal location for rest and relaxation. "First come, first served" does not necessarily mean that the site will be available when you get there. Someone may get there before you. This is a popular campground and is normally full starting on Friday, sometimes as early as Thursday, so plan accordingly. Recreati...
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