Pool Creek Hot Spring
Pool Creek Hot Spring comes out of Boise National Forest in Boise County, fourteen miles from Idaho City. It is hot, a little above what most people sit in, and the 1982 sample found soft water with low dissolved solids and a strongly alkaline pH. Public access is open. Ninemeyer Campground is half a mile away.
Middle Fork Road is three or four hundred feet from the water. The spring sits low for the forest, in a spot that collects a lot of snow, roughly ten feet a winter, and a good deal of rain besides, thirty inches of precipitation in an average year. Forest Service land, designated national forest.
Camping is easy, with Ninemeyer Campground half a mile off. The three winter months are marked best, which means snow on Middle Fork Road is the main obstacle. The water is only a few degrees past soaking heat, about as comfortable as a natural spring gets without cooling. Nothing in the record restricts access. The sample is from 1982.
The water at Pool Creek Hot Spring is alkaline (pH 9.6) with 245 mg/L total dissolved solids.
Overview:Due to a wildfire, there are no amenities at the campground. Currently there are no developed campfire rings therefore when Stage 1 fire restrictions area in effect, no fires are permitted.A stay at Ninemeyer Campground enables guests to enjoy all the beauty and recreation offered along the (Middle Fork Boise River Road) Forest Service (FS) Road 268. Weather is usually good from mid-May through late September and is easily accessible by car in good weather, although the road is some...
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