Barrons Hot Spring
Barrons Hot Spring is scalding. Water at the source comes out far past anything a body can enter, in Camas County, Idaho, about seven miles from Fairfield. A short walk covers the gap from the road. Neither owner nor access status appears on the record, so the legal side is unknown.
Around five thousand feet, in a dry part of the state with sixteen inches of precipitation and about four and a half feet of snow each winter. The walk from the nearest road is under five hundred feet; the road itself is nameless in the record. Bowns Campground, the nearest camping, is almost twenty-two miles away. No land unit is recorded.
Do not get in. The source temperature will burn skin on contact, and no cooled pool is described in the record. December, January and February are the months the record lists as best. The walk is short. Access is not confirmed as public, and the chemistry dates from a 1989 sample.
The water at Barrons Hot Spring is slightly alkaline (pH 8.0) with 337 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Bowns Campground, located 25 miles east of Featherville and 18 miles north of Fairfield, is a developed campground composed of 10 units along Big Smoky Creek. Two of the camp sites are double family units. Camping, fishing, hiking, and picnicking are popular activities. Campground amenities include picnic tables, fire rings, drinking water (seasonally) and restrooms. Miller Creek Trail (#087) starts just south of the campground and is open to motorcycles.
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