Hot Springs
Can you soak at Hot Springs?
The water leaves the ground at 86°F, about as warm as a heated pool. Reaching it takes a hike. It's on National Park Service land. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
The Clark County record called Hot Springs sits inside the national recreation area around Lake Mead, about fourteen miles from Boulder City. The water is warm, mid-eighties, on land the National Park Service manages, access open, and it takes a mile-and-a-half walk from the nearest road to reach. Neither water chemistry nor a photo is on file.
Low desert at 860 feet. The year averages in the mid-seventies, rain barely registers, a few inches a year, and snow does not show up in the averages at all. The hike in is around 1.5 miles from an unnamed road. Nothing on file says what the spring looks like or what the walk crosses.
The record favors midwinter, December through February. Park Service land with open access, and neither a fee nor a campground shows up. That mid-eighties temperature carries no date, so treat it as approximate. Nothing that warm will burn you.
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 Hot Springs.
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Canyon floor
- Steep ground climbs away on both sides of the spring.
- Highest ground nearby
- 646 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the northwest
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, 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 53% 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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