Hot Springs Ranch Springs
Hot Springs Ranch Springs carries a name that promises more heat than the water delivers. It comes up tepid, under eighty degrees, the kind of warm you notice in January and miss entirely in July. The site is in Lander County, a thirty-mile run out of Battle Mountain, and is catalogued by the USGS. Who owns the land is not on record.
The springs lie a few hundred feet beyond a road that appears on file without a name. Elevation is moderate for Nevada, well below the five-thousand-foot mark, and the weather is dry, with light snow, less than two feet in an average winter.
The best months on record are the cold ones, December through February, though water this tepid will feel cool once the air drops below freezing. Access is a short walk, easy in most conditions. Nothing on file covers ownership, fees, camping, or public permission. The temperature is a survey value; expect variation.