Roadside Springs, Frying Pan Spring
Frying Pan Spring belongs to the group filed as the Roadside Springs, and it sits right at the edge of the Grand Loop Road in Yellowstone. The water scalds, and the 2006 sample came back acidic. You pull over and there it is. Gallatin County, and the Park Service owns it. Access is open. West Yellowstone is the closest town. OpenStreetMap lists it as Roadside Spring East with a monitoring code attached.
Roadside is the access class, and the record puts it under 150 feet from the Grand Loop Road. Around 7,500 feet up. The climate on record is cold, a year-round average in the mid thirties, and the snow total runs a little over eleven feet. Moderate precipitation. Yellowstone National Park throughout.
Scalding, and acidic with it, so skin and water do not mix here. Stay on the road shoulder or boardwalk. Winter is rated best on record, which in practice means the Grand Loop Road under snow, so check whether it is open. Indian Creek Campground is around nine miles away, the nearest camp on file. No fee listed.
OpenStreetMap names this point Roadside Spring East (MNCNN031), a monitoring label. The USGS holds a site record, with the water chemistry on file sampled in June 2006.
The water at Roadside Springs, Frying Pan Spring is acidic (pH 4.7).
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Overview Located about eight miles (13 km) south of Mammoth Hot Springs on the road to Norris, Indian Creek Campground—elevation 7,300 feet (2225 m)—sits near the base of the Gallatin Mountains and offers breathtaking views of Electric Peak. The area offers easy access to fishing and hiking. The campground is away from the main road and provides a quieter, more primitive, experience than many other locations. For reservations at the campgrounds managed by Yellowstone National Park Lodges (Fi...
Roadside Springs, Frying Pan Spring sits at 7,520 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 30% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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Roadside Springs, Frying Pan Spring is road-accessible, so you can bring more gear. The water is dangerously hot, so bring water shoes and test pools carefully. Cold air temperatures make a changing robe or warm layers essential.
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