Little Hot Springs
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Can you soak at Little Hot Springs?
USGS lists Little Hot Springs as a hot spring, with no temperature on record. Reaching it takes a hike. It's on Bureau of Land Management land. We haven't confirmed whether it has a pool or charges a fee.
Backcountry describes Little Hot Springs in Eureka County: forty-five miles from Eureka, on open BLM land under Mount Lewis Field Office management. The record calls it hot but gives no temperature, so do not count on it being soakable. Getting there takes a hike of more than two miles from Grass Valley Road.
From Grass Valley Road the springs are about two and a third miles on foot across public land. The site sits above fifty-six hundred feet, and winters drop more than three feet of snow against eleven inches of yearly precipitation. No designation beyond ordinary public land applies.
No best months are listed. The snow totals argue for late spring through fall for a hike this long. Access is open and no fee appears on file. With no temperature on file, treat the water with caution until you have tested it yourself. No camping is listed nearby.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 7 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from southwest to northeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 10% 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.
Little Hot Springs sits at 5,628 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 23% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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