Buffalo Springs
Buffalo Springs is a scalding spring on public land in Lander County, about twenty-eight miles from Battle Mountain. The Bureau of Land Management holds the ground and the record marks it open. What comes out of the ground is far above anything safe to touch, so what you get here is a hot spring to look at, on open range, with nothing built around it on record.
Roadside access. The spring lies within ninety feet of the nearest road, and the road is anonymous on file, on the BLM's Humboldt River Field Office. Forty-six hundred feet or so of elevation, a dry basin, ten inches of precipitation, snow a little over two feet.
Winter, meaning December through February, is the recommended season on record. The source will scald on contact; keep a wide margin from it and from any hot runoff. Open BLM land; the record shows no fee and no campground. There is no USGS site number for this one, so the temperature has less paperwork behind it than most.