Huffaker Springs
Can you soak at Huffaker Springs?
The water leaves the ground at 81°F, about as warm as a heated pool. You can drive right up to it. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
Eight miles from Sparks, beside Rio Wrangler Parkway in Washoe County, Huffaker Springs comes up tepid, low eighties, warm to the hand and no more than that. The USGS keeps it on its list and there is a photograph in the record. The record says nothing about ownership or if the public can get to the water.
This is about as roadside as it gets, a few feet off the parkway, at around forty-four hundred feet. Winters bring well over a yard of snow. The year sees about sixteen inches of precipitation. Mount Rose campground is the nearest listed camping, around fourteen miles away.
December through February are marked best, though an eighty-degree spring in a snowy winter will feel lukewarm at most. There is no fee or access status on file. Camp at Mount Rose if you are making a trip of it. No chemistry has been recorded.
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 Huffaker 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
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the east.
- Highest ground nearby
- 94 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
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 63% 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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Overview Mount Rose Campground is conveniently located between Reno and Lake Tahoe just off scenic Mount Rose Highway. Visitors love the campground for its proximity to excellent hiking trails and recreational opportunities at Lake Tahoe.Recreation Hiking is the most popular pastime at Mount Rose. Several trails, including the Tahoe Meadows, Tahoe Rim, Mount Rose Wilderness and Mount Rose Summit Trails, begin very close to the campground.Facilities Mount Rose contains single and double-family...
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