Delmues Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Delmues Springs?
The water leaves the ground at 70°F, about as warm as a heated pool. You can drive right up to it. It's on Bureau of Land Management land. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
Public BLM ground outside Pioche, Nevada holds Delmues Springs, a tepid spring nine or so miles from town in Lincoln County. The temperature on record is seventy degrees, cool enough that calling it a hot spring is generous. Access is open. The Caliente Field Office manages the land.
Delmue Ranch Road comes within a few hundred feet. Elevation is around five thousand feet, which puts it in cooler valley country; winters bring twenty inches of snow or thereabouts, and the year is dry overall, eight inches of precipitation. Park, then a short walk across BLM land.
Open to the public, so no permission needed. The record suggests December through February. No heat hazard at this temperature. Water chemistry dates to 1985, neutral to slightly alkaline. No camping on file.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Valley floor
- Gentle slopes rise on both sides.
- Highest ground nearby
- 190 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
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 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 60% 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 Delmues Springs is slightly alkaline (pH 7.7).
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