Wolf Hot Spring
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 Wolf Hot Spring?
The water leaves the ground at 113°F, a comfortable soaking temperature. It's a short walk from the road. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
Wolf Hot Spring turns up in Camas County, Idaho, a dozen miles out from Fairfield. Hot, at the top end of what a person can sit in. That would make it a soaking spring if a pool existed, and no pool has been recorded. Ownership of the land is unknown. So is the question of whether you can legally go. The water has never been sampled.
Mink Road is the closest road, and the spring is a short walk off it, roughly a fifth of a mile. Elevation is foothill country. Winter snow runs about five feet; the rest of the year is moderately dry. No land unit or owner appears in the record, so you cannot tell from here if the ground is public.
The listed months run December to February. Nobody has recorded access or land ownership, so assume nothing and ask locally. The Dog Creek campground is the nearest one we have, nearly nineteen miles away. Water this warm can scald if it comes out hotter at the source than the figure on file; ease in.
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 Wolf Hot Spring.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 8 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
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 47% 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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